Featured Books - AAIHS

Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor

Marcus Garvey. Photo: Caribbean National Weekly.

Marcus Garvey: A New Biography on the Jamaican Black Nationalist

February 24, 2018March 1, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Activism, black internationalism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism

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

Set the World on Fire: A New Book on Black Nationalist Women’s Activism

February 17, 2018February 24, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

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

The Anti-Black City: A New Book on Black Urban Life in Brazil

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

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

The History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital

February 10, 2018February 13, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham black politics, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, Washington DC

2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a crucial moment for Washington, D.C. On April 4, 1968, following news of Dr.