Intellectual Identity - AAIHS - Page 5

Naming and Self-identification in the Black Community

March 29, 2021April 18, 2021 E. James West academic publishing, Activism, African American history, Black Power

Naming is a complicated business. Names play a vital role in defining group identity and the identity of individuals who

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The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell

March 25, 2021April 18, 2021 Malaurie Pilatte Activism, black feminism, Black women, Jim Crow, Resistance

As many across the U.S. were gearing up last year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and

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

On the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

February 19, 2021February 22, 2021 Keelyn Bradley #AudreLorde, black intellectual history, Black political thought, Black Queers, Black Studies, Gender, race, racism, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde The spectacle of a dying

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African American Print Culture: An Interview with Laura Helton

February 4, 2021January 30, 2021 Robert Greene II archives, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, library

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Laura Helton, whose article

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The Interior Lives of Black Youth

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Jim Crow, Resistance

In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History

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