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Online Forum–The Significance of the Black Family in the US

November 11, 2022November 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackFamily, #Roundtable, Activism, citizenship, forum

November 14-21, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an online forum on the

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Marion Thompson Wright and Brown v. Board of Education

October 11, 2022October 5, 2022 Graham Hodges #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBOE, black intellectual history, education

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision Marion Thompson

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The Lexicon Origins of People of Color

September 27, 2022September 25, 2022 Warren Milteer, Jr. black intellectual history, race

The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The

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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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Teaching Massacres and Black History

September 13, 2022September 8, 2022 Steve Peraza #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackBuffalo, Racial Violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on “Black Buffalo” As a professor of history at Buffalo State College, the

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