Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’
The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition
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Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have
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Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies
According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for
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Contagions of Empire: A New Book on Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Roots of the ‘Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition’
*This interview is part of our online forum on ‘The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition,’ organized by Stephen Wilson and Garrett
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