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Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts

May 31, 2022May 30, 2022 Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha Ford #BlackWomenBio, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender

“I think of invention as a gift to the reader,” writer and professor Bridgett Davis said. The moment you put

Online Forum–Black Women’s Biography

May 27, 2022May 26, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomenBio, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender

May 31, 2022 to June 7, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting

The Consequences of USCT Soldiering

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Civil War, Pension System, reparations, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troop, USCI, USCT

Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An

Ideological Hegemony: A Precursor to Institutional Racism

May 25, 2022May 24, 2022 Bala James Baptiste Antonio Gramsci, ideology, Intellectualism, multiculturalism, Stuart Hall, white supremacy

Intellectuals advanced the concept of ideological hegemony, which is applicable to the establishment and change of relationships between Caucasians and

Early Black Collegians and the Fight for Full Inclusion

May 24, 2022May 23, 2022 John Frederick Bell black intellectual history, education

This July 7th will mark the 181st anniversary of the formation of the first Black student organization in American higher