Featured Books - AAIHS

Gynecology and the Ungendering of Black Women

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Alejandro S. Escalante #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, black lives matter, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the first chapter: ‘Anatomically Speaking:

Black Feminism: The Beginning and End of a World

December 3, 2018December 7, 2018 L.H. Stallings #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, black feminism, Black radicalism, Gender, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. For this roundtable, I have been

From Protestant Supremacy to Christian Slavery

November 20, 2018November 26, 2018 Christopher Cannon Jones race, racism, religion, slavery

Early in the morning on April 7, 1712, a group of approximately thirty enslaved individuals launched a dramatic revolt, killing

Online Roundtable: ‘Black on Both Sides’: A Racial History of Trans Identity

November 19, 2018December 10, 2018 AAIHS Editors #BlackonBothSides, Gender, race, trans identity

December 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives,the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on C. Riley

"Chained To The Hatch," 1864. Photo: NYPL Digital Collections.

Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Mary E. Hicks slave trade, slavery, South Carolina

The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often