historiography - AAIHS

Rethinking Religion and Race in the Great Migration

September 27, 2017October 1, 2017 Emily Clark #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

September 21, 2017September 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr black intellectual history, teaching

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

Protest against white supremacy, February 2017. Photo: Flickr/cool revolution.

White Fragility, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, and the Weight of History

July 27, 2017July 31, 2017 Guest Poster academia, ethnic studies, pedagogy, race, racism, racist ideas, teaching

by Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella On July 3, The Boston Globe published a controversial, if predictable, op-ed entitled “In

Albertina Sisulu briefs protestors, Johannesburg, 1984, by Paul Weinberg. Photo: University of Cape Town Libraries.

African Women and Social Movements in Africa

July 18, 2017July 21, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Activism, Black women, Gender, Politics, Social Movements

While historical narratives have traditionally depicted the African continent and its people as inferior, scholars are actively challenging this pervasive rhetoric

"Freedmen Voting in New Orleans," engraving, 1867. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections.

The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 Westenley Alcenat black intellectual history, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts