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Claiming Freedom in the Low Country

May 13, 2020May 11, 2020 Adam McNeil Georgia, landownership, slavery

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’

May 12, 2020May 11, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable

May 18-22, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of African

Flying Lotus and Registers of Black Life and Death

May 11, 2020May 10, 2020 Tiffany Barber and Isabel Jean-Louis #NewBlackSurrealisms, Black film, film, hip hop, Los Angeles, music

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video

Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black Studies, literature

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

“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures

May 7, 2020May 3, 2020 Camille Goldmon blackness, entrepreneurs, Historical Memory

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of