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2017 in Review: Roundtables on Black Perspectives

December 27, 2017January 2, 2018 AAIHS Editors

In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), hosted ten online roundtables and forums, featuring leading scholars

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Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics

December 22, 2017December 29, 2017 Nathan Moore comic books, film, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,

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Cosmic Literacies and Black Fugitivity

December 20, 2017December 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr astronomy, fugitivity, Resistance, slavery

Star-gazing as a practice of fugitivity has a long history for Black Americans. According to folklore, spirituals like “Foller de

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The Historical Hatred of Haiti

December 18, 2017December 21, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Haiti, Haitian Revolution

In 2016, while campaigning in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Donald Trump told a group of Haitians that, “We have a

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Black Radicalism and Voices of Resistance

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, mass incarceration, Political Prisoners, prisons

First published at the end of 1971, Angela Davis’ If They Come in the Morning is the kind of urgent tract

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