Roundtables - AAIHS

Black October: An Introduction

October 30, 2017November 2, 2017 Jennifer Wilson and Jennifer Suchland Black October, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Russia, Russian Revolution, Soviet Union

*This is the introduction to our online forum on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora 2017 is not a year lacking in

Online Roundtable: Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba

October 1, 2017November 7, 2017 AAIHS Editors #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

November 6-11, 2017 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Devyn Spence

Crowd applauding Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, 1974. Photo: Environmental Protection Agency/National Archives and Records Administration.

Writing a New History of Black Religion: An Author’s Response

September 30, 2017November 5, 2017 Judith Weisenfeld #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black nationalism, Black women, Immigration, religion, research

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming One afternoon while sitting in the Schomburg Center reading

The Complexities of Racial and Religious Identities

September 29, 2017October 1, 2017 Tisa Wenger #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black nationalism, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s exhaustively researched and analytically brilliant new book,

Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial