Visuality - AAIHS

Photographing the Afterlife of Slavery

September 21, 2026September 12, 2026 Mickell Carter 0 Comments
#globalblackthought, photography, Visual Culture

In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Vanessa Charlot about her new

Race-Making Across Borders: How Sudan Challenges the Study of Race

July 29, 2026July 25, 2026 Michell Chresfield 0 Comments
#BoundsofBlackness, africa, African Diaspora, black internationalism, blackness

This post is part of our online roundtable on Christopher Tounsel’s Bounds of Blackness. What defines Blackness, and who gets to decide? In

Documenting Black Appalachia

November 30, 2023November 22, 2023 E. James West Black Appalachia, Coal, DOCUMERICA, Great Migration, West Virginia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

Colorful painted buildings of Favela in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. (Shutterstock-Skreidzeleu)

Online Forum–Race & Latin America

October 9, 2023October 8, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, Carnival, Latin America, Women

October 11, 2023 to October 19, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

Re-thinking Black (Im)mobility

September 20, 2023August 30, 2023 Nathan Cardon Bicycling, Children, Civil Rights Movement, MEDIA, Motion, photography

On January 10, 2022, a group of young mostly Black and Latinx cyclists known as Everyones Rideout took over a portion of Interstate

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