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The Contours of Black Intellectual History

November 15, 2018November 19, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

This is an excerpt of the introduction to New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018) edited by Keisha N.

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of American Democracy

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, race

Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.

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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

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“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain

November 12, 2018November 19, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, black internationalism, Caribbean, Cuba, music, Resistance

In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What

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Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200

November 12, 2018November 26, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on

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