Black Gay History and the Fight Against AIDS
During the 1980s and 1990s, African American AIDS activists used Black gay history as a tool in the fight against AIDS.
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Gender
Portraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
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The Man-Not: A New Book on the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle
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Identity and Culture in Roman Africa: An Interview with Jennifer A. Rea
In his recent post “African American and the Classics: An Introduction,” David Withun highlighted the problem posed by the assumption
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