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Margin Notes, Reading Practices, and Black Queer Traditions

May 16, 2023May 15, 2023 Alexandria Smith #AAIHSRoundtable, #DiscoBallBetweenUs, Gender, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. Let us begin at the end.

No Easy Romance: An Introduction to the Black Gay Life Forum

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 Marcus Lee #AAIHSRoundtable, #DiscoBallBetweenUs, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. Dear Writer, The

Online Roundtable–Jafari S. Allen’s ‘There’s a Disco Ball Between Us’

May 12, 2023May 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, black queer studies, Black Studies, Jafari S. Allen, Queer Theory

May 15–22, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Jafari

Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions

May 11, 2023May 9, 2023 Asia Thomas Uzomba Black women, Nat Turner, Slave Rebellion, slavery, Southampton Rebellion

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,

Coke Money and Apartheid Divestment in U.S. Higher Education

May 10, 2023May 11, 2023 Amanda Joyce Hall Activism, Apartheid, Emory, South Africa, Student Movement

Philanthropic gifting to US higher education amounted to an astronomical $52.9 billion in 2021. Higher education has enjoyed a long