Performance - AAIHS

Black Americans and Wedding Rituals: An Interview with Tyler D. Parry

November 21, 2022November 18, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In today’s post,

Online Forum–Bounce Music

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #Bounce, dance, freedom, Liberation, music, Performance

October 24, 2022 to October 29, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an

A Mortal Man’s Heart: Kendrick Lamar and Black Masculinity

May 13, 2022May 12, 2022 Zion McThomas black boys, Gender, hip hop, Kendrick Lamer, masculinity

We haven’t heard from Kendrick Lamar (as far as solo projects) since the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning album DAMN. Kendrick

How Josephine Baker Challenged Las Vegas Racism

May 3, 2022May 4, 2022 Claytee White #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, Black women

By the mid-twentieth century, Las Vegas’ reputation as the “Mississippi of the West” was well-earned. As Black Americans from the

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation

April 21, 2022April 20, 2022 Clay Matlin art, artistic production, Beauty, black artists, W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the