‘New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition’: A New Book on Black Thinkers in the US and Abroad
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography
Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018
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Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200
November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on
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Broomsticks and Material Cultures of Cleanliness in American Slavery
In 1901 preeminent Black Sociologist W.E.B. Du Dois published an essay entitled, “The Home of the Slave,” which detailed his
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Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”
Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the
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