Intellectual Identity - AAIHS

Jargon for the Blacks—and Others

September 30, 2019September 22, 2019 Marquis Bey Black Queers, education, Gender, language, race, sexuality, trans identity

Time and again, usually a few times a year, I haphazardly stumble upon someone castigating the use of “jargon,” at

Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, Black Ecologies, black intellectual history, Black women, Caribbean, ethnography, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative ethnographic methodologies — including first-hand accounts of her own hoodoo/voodoo initiations — are celebrated by white

When John Hope Franklin and Pepsi Made a Black History Record

June 19, 2019June 23, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis Black History Month, black intellectual history, capitalism, Historiography, John Hope Franklin

A decade after his death, John Hope Franklin remains among the most prominent historians to ever chronicle the African American

On Education and African American Intellectual History

June 14, 2019June 12, 2019 Derrick P. Alridge #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, education, education reform, Historiography, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ As a scholar in African

Reflections on African American Intellectual History

June 13, 2019June 9, 2019 Pero G. Dagbovie #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, black women scholars, education, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In the mid-1970s when the