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Black Women Public Intellectuals in U.S. History and Culture

December 1, 2023November 25, 2023 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black women's intellectual history, Politics, Shirley Chisholm

The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual

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Documenting Black Appalachia

November 30, 2023November 22, 2023 E. James West Black Appalachia, Coal, DOCUMERICA, Great Migration, West Virginia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism

November 27, 2023November 8, 2023 Dylan O’Hara black intellectual history, FWP, literature, New Deal, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston

J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways

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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 17, 2023November 7, 2023 A’Dorian Murray-Thomas black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily

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Online Forum-Womanist Theology: A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 3, 2023November 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #WomanistTheology, Black women, religion, Womanism, Womanist Theology

November 10, 2023 to November 20, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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