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Situating Standpoint Magazine: Conservative Journalism and Eugenic Ideology

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 Alexandra Fair African Diaspora, eugenics, publishing, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

David J. Garrow’s recent article “The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King” ignited a firestorm of debate. After its May 30th publication in Standpoint,

Harlem as Setting and Symbol

June 6, 2019June 16, 2019 LaShawn Harris Activism, black politics, culture, gentrification, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting

Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

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

On Richard Wright’s Hunger and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Field Brown book review, Deep South, embodiment, food, literature, memoir, Mississippi, South

Richard Wright’s famous autobiography, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) was originally titled American Hunger. However, the

Online Forum: What is African American Intellectual History?

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 AAIHS Editors #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Black political thought, intellectual

June 10-14, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum titled “What is