Featured Books - AAIHS

‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Dockworker Power: A New Book on Labor Activism in South Africa and the United States

March 20, 2019August 12, 2022 Skyler Gordon Activism, black internationalism, black politics, black protest

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

Look at Me: A New Book About Education and the Black Queer Body

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 J. T. Roane education, embodiment, LGBT, sexuality

*This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

March 6, 2019August 12, 2022 Don S. Polite, Jr. Activism, Jim Crow, Politics, race, religion

The Women’s March, led by women of color activists such as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, brought millions out to