Featured Books - AAIHS

Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement

November 13, 2018November 19, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black lives matter, black politics, Racial Violence, Resistance

Though it was first created as a hashtag in 2013 as a response to Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands

Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles

November 9, 2018November 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new

Making Race in British Colonial North America

November 8, 2018November 26, 2018 Elise A. Mitchell race

When confronted with three eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements seeking a missing man from Connecticut named Ishmael Mux of “a white Complexion,”

The Life and Legacy of Political Scientist Hanes Walton, Jr.

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Daniel HoSang black intellectual history, black politics, race

In 1970, Vincent Harding contributed an essay to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Black Studies titled “Black Students

Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 Anastasia Curwood Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Sometime during the Great Depression, a young working-class Black man acquired a 1925 first-edition copy of The New Negro: An