Pedagogy - AAIHS

On Hip Hop and Growing Up in Philadelphia: An Interview with MK Asante

June 24, 2017June 26, 2017 Darryl Robertson #HipHopSeries, hip hop, music, pedagogy, Philadelphia, teaching

This month I interviewed MK Asante. Asante is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, and professor. He studied at the University of

African Liberation Day, 1972. Photo: District of Columbia Public Library.

Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College

May 17, 2017May 20, 2017 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, education

Over the past several years, scholars such as Ibram X. Kendi, Martha Biondi, Russell Rickford, and others have produced scholarship

American University. Photo: Wikimedia/Samschoe.

The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum

May 16, 2017May 18, 2017 Jordanna Matlon education, education reform, racism, teaching

Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students

Blackness, a Haunted History

April 21, 2017April 24, 2017 James Padilioni Jr Haiti, Vodou

Historians generally frame their writing and research around the notion of change over time, assuming that time moves forward. But

Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee speaks at Florida A&M University, 1967. Source: Black on Campus.

Pedagogy for the World: Black Studies in the Classroom and Beyond

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, Black Studies

One of the original aims of Black Studies (and the related fields of African-American and Africana Studies) was its pedagogical