Celia, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Diffusion of Black Thought
One of the hardest days in my early African American history class is the day that we analyze State of
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Slavery
Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production
On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history
Read moreAn Intellectual History of a Book Title: Stamped from the Beginning
The main title for my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, originated
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The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast
Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s
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Finding Agency in Unexpected Places
Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully
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