Remembering Victoria Santa Cruz: A Global Life
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” “I was born Black, I
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Online Forum-Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora
September 16-23, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum considering the
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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
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Eve Ewing, Ironheart, and Black Women’s Fiction
Contemporary Black women writers weave words into imaginary worlds to create fiction that defies neat, tidy genre distinctions. Comic books,
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Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But
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