Intellectual Identity - AAIHS

Online Forum: W. E. B. Du Bois @ 150

February 10, 2018February 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors #DuBoisForum, W.E.B. Du Bois

*February 19-23, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on W. E. B. Du

The New Negro: A New Book on Black Philosopher Alain Locke

February 3, 2018February 8, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Alain Locke, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, Philadelphia

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

Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Vision

February 1, 2018February 4, 2018 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Pan-Africanism

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address, “Keep Moving from This Mountain,” at Spelman College’s annual Founders Day commemoration

Black Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Race: An Interview with Paul C. Taylor

January 18, 2018January 22, 2018 Neil Roberts #raceandphilosophy, Philosophy, race

This month I interviewed Paul C. Taylor on his most recent book, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of