Featured Books - AAIHS

Rastafarians and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Michael Barnett African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black Power, Pan-Africanism

Monique Bedasse’s Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization makes a commendable and sterling contribution to the body

Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 Adam McNeil Activism, archives, Baltimore, freedom, race, racism

Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and

Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee speaks at Florida A&M University, 1967. Source: Black on Campus.

‘Upending the Ivory Tower’: A New Book on the Black Student Movement

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Black Power, Black Power Studies, education, education reform

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

Online Forum: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

October 1, 2018October 17, 2018 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police violence, racism, Resistance, Unseen Light

October 8-12, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum based

‘African Americans and the Pacific War’: A New Book on Race and Nationality

October 1, 2018October 3, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism, Pacific War

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