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Black Atlantic Journeys in the Digital

November 2, 2021November 4, 2021 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” “What would it mean to read diaspora spatially? How might

Online Forum–Digital Black Atlantics

October 29, 2021October 28, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black intellectual history, teaching

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is pleased to announce the upcoming online forum on

On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence

June 2, 2021June 1, 2021 Melanie Chambliss Activism, art, education, race, Resistance

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

The History of African American Visual Culture

April 1, 2021March 31, 2021 Mary N. Mitchell art, Black Arts Movement, freedom, race, racism, slavery, Visual Culture

If you were lucky enough to see “The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” an

Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton’

February 2, 2021February 21, 2021 Shaun Armstead black feminism, blackness, popular culture, race, racism, Visual Culture

Since its release on Christmas Day, Bridgerton has attracted international attention for its racial cosmopolitan reenactment of early nineteenth-century Britain.