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BlackPast and the World: Visualizing a Black International Network

November 3, 2021November 4, 2021 Hannah (J.A.H.) de Korte #BlackAtlantics, Black Digital Atlantic, black internationalism, Digital Humanities, Ethiopia, Pan-Africanism

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” For historian Paul Gilroy, the Black Atlantic represented the notion

Black Atlantic Journeys in the Digital

November 2, 2021November 4, 2021 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” “What would it mean to read diaspora spatially? How might

Introduction to “Digital Black Atlantics” Roundtable

November 1, 2021November 4, 2021 Rachel Anne Gillett #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, black internationalism, slavery, teaching

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” In recent years the rise of digital humanities has become

Online Forum–Digital Black Atlantics

October 29, 2021October 28, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black intellectual history, teaching

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is pleased to announce the upcoming online forum on

Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate