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Online Roundtable—Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, Disability Studies, race

March 9–12, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Therí

‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 Hilda Lloréns Activism, African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Afrxlatinidad, black internationalism, Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, racism

This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.

Countering the Jaggedness– Shabez Jamal and New Black Surrealisms

March 2, 2020March 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #NewBlackSurrealisms, art, Black film, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race

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

Introducing the New Black Surrealisms Series

March 2, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors #NewBlackSurrealisms, digital media, MEDIA, race, Visual Culture

New Black Surrealisms, guest edited by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome P. Dent, Jr., extends recent interventions in Black media

A Political Education: An Author’s Response

February 28, 2020February 23, 2020 Elizabeth Todd-Breland #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, education, education reform, organizing, teaching

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since