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Online Forum–Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black politics, civil rights

August 2, 2021 to August 10, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating

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Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Robert Greene II Black women, Civil Rights Movement

Gloria Richardson passed away on July 15, 2021, at the age of 99. Tributes have already poured in for the

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How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

July 16, 2021July 15, 2021 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Black film, film, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

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Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Celeste Henery education, racism, teaching, white supremacy

Galveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island

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“Pauulu’s Diaspora”: An Author’s Response

July 2, 2021June 26, 2021 Quito J. Swan #QuitoSwan, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable on Dr. Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr. Keisha

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