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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology

September 26, 2022September 22, 2022 Christopher D. E. Willoughby slave trade, slavery

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

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CFP: Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy

September 23, 2022September 18, 2022 AAIHS Editors black intellectuals, CFP, democracy, Intellectual History, intellectuals, Protest, race

Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past

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Online Forum–Black Buffalo

September 9, 2022September 8, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackBuffalo, black politics, black protest, Resistance, white supremacy

September 12-19, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on the

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Lorraine Hansberry: the Organizer

September 9, 2022August 30, 2022 Soyica Diggs Colbert #RadicalVision, black feminism, Black political thought, Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision As I completed the research for Radical Vision, I

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Online Roundtable–Soyica Diggs Colbert’s ‘Radical Vision’

September 2, 2022August 29, 2022 AAIHS Editors #RadicalVision, #Roundtable, art, black feminism, Black women, Lorraine Hansberry

September 5-9, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical

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