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Online Roundtable–Lorgia García Peña’s ‘Translating Blackness’

September 5, 2023September 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #TranslatingBlackness, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx

September 11, 2023 to September 15, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

September 1, 2023August 27, 2023 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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A Response to Black Studies Readers, Dancers, Students, and Teachers

May 22, 2023May 19, 2023 Jafari Sinclaire Allen #AAIHSRoundtable, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. “Crossings,” M. Jacqui Alexander reminds

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Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 Christopher D. E. Willoughby antebellum, book review, disability, Gender, slavery

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II

May 3, 2023August 7, 2023 Menika Dirkson art, interview, lynching, Memory, methods

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

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