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Conference 2024 – General Information

#AAIHS2024 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Ninth Annual Conference March 8-9, 2024 Conference Theme: Reparations: Past, Present, and

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The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment

May 25, 2023May 23, 2023 Ray Dinsmore black press, book review, Built Environment, Chicago, Chicago Defender, Ebony Magazine

In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the

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Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South

May 24, 2023May 23, 2023 Ryan W. Keating Civil War, Freedman's Bureau, Pensions, reconstruction, Welfare

The policing of Black bodies has become an increasingly visible part of the American landscape, shining light on centuries-long violent

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Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

  Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced

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An Ode to Kente Epistemology: Theorizing Black Gay Life

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 Kwame Edwin Otu #DiscoBallBetweenUs, black queer studies, Black Studies, Kente Clothe, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. I enter Jafari

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