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African Americans and Africa: A New Book about Black America’s Relationship with the Continent

January 17, 2020January 16, 2020 AAIHS Editors africa, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, race

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Dying Laughing: Black Fugitivity and Black Queer Precarity

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Keelyn Bradley black politics, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, LGBT, race

If, as Ralph Ellison writes, Black laughter is, as an expression of Black humanity, a threat to white social order

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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Black Scholars Respond to Dr. Lorgia García Peña Tenure Denial at Harvard

December 12, 2019January 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, education

*The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stands in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently

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Living with Crises in Port-au-Prince

December 4, 2019November 30, 2019 Antony Keane-Dawes book review, Caribbean, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Race and Economic History

Based on a decade’s worth of research in Haiti, the United States, and Canada, There is No More Haiti: Between

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