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Online Roundtable: Keisha N. Blain’s ‘Set the World on Fire’

September 10, 2018October 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors Activism, black internationalism, black politics, Black women, black women's internationalism, Politics, Set the World on Fire

September 24-28, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of

The Connections Between Urban Development and Colonialism

August 8, 2018August 16, 2018 Paige Glotzer capitalism, colonialism, gentrification, Racial Violence, racism, segregation

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Paige

Windrush and Britain’s Long History of Racialized Belonging

July 31, 2018August 8, 2018 Christienna Fryar, Nicole Jackson, and Kennetta Hammond Perry Black Europe, Claudia Jones, freedom, Immigration, Migration

In November 2017, 61-year-old Paulette Wilson decided to publicly share her story of being detained in the infamous Yarl’s Wood

Between Europe and the Black Atlantic

July 27, 2018August 8, 2018 Caroline Bressey art, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Blacks in Britain

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

Migrant Children and Family Separation in the United States

July 16, 2018July 20, 2018 Westenley Alcenat Haiti, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, white supremacy

American nationalism, like all other nationalisms, is an imagined concept of belonging and community. In this regard, it is not