Race Consciousness - AAIHS

On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence

In 1919, two dozen race riots broke out across the United States, and the collective racial terror traumatized Black communities.

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

February of this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the killing of Rolan Adams, a Black British teenager who was

In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of

In 1932, James Ford returned from the Soviet Union with a letter from the Russian film company Meschrabpom saying it