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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

Contemporary Black women writers weave words into imaginary worlds to create fiction that defies neat, tidy genre distinctions. Comic books,

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But

The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare existing racial inequalities in our healthcare system. The magnified death toll for Black and Brown

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize for the best