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Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

September 21, 2020September 13, 2020 Katie Donington #CapitalismandSlavery, slavery, wealth

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

Online Forum: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #CapitalismandSlavery

September 21–25, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum on

Chadwick Boseman and the Semiotics of Liberation

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Walter Greason MEDIA, social justice

The actor’s gift is to see themselves through the eyes of their audience, while maintaining an internal sense of sincerity

Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies

September 4, 2020September 17, 2020 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

“Imagining a New World Without Cages”: An Interview with Stephen Wilson

August 28, 2020September 7, 2020 Dan Berger IBRT

*This interview is the conclusion of our online forum on ‘The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition,’ organized by Stephen Wilson and Garrett