Intellectual Identity - AAIHS

Remembering Malcolm

February 19, 2017February 22, 2017 Garrett Felber #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X

This week on Black Perspectives, we mark the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with a week-long forum, “Remembering Malcolm,”

Transcending Time: Centering Literature at Festac 77

January 17, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, West Africa

In January 1977, a month-long celebration of African diasporic culture brought participants from fifty-five countries to Lagos, Nigeria, including several

Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

Speech Speaks: Arrested Development’s Mastermind Thinking Aloud (Part II)

January 14, 2017June 27, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount music

This month I had the opportunity to interview Speech from the music group, Arrested Development. This is the second part of

An Introduction to the African American Intellectual Heritage Book Series

January 10, 2017March 26, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black intellectual history

In today’s post, I sit down with Professors Patrick B. Miller and Paul Spickard to discuss their book series, The African American