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2016 AAIHS Conference: New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition

March 1, 2016March 6, 2016 Ashley Farmer

The upcoming year promises to be an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society. Not only is the

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Black History Month Bibliography

February 13, 2016February 1, 2021 Brandon Byrd

  When Carter G. Woodson inaugurated Negro History Week in the second week of February 1926, he imagined an event

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“Sold to Africa”: Remembering Patrice Lumumba

January 17, 2016January 17, 2017 Keisha N. Blain Pan-Africanism, Patrice Lumumba

[T]he enemies of Africa had understood. They had realized quite clearly that [Patrice] Lumumba was sold—sold to Africa, of course.

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Thinking About the ‘X’

December 12, 2015December 14, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Afrxlatinidad, Caribbean, colonial America, empire, Latin America, slave trade, slavery

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that

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Conclusion: Roundtable on The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing

November 30, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is the final day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist

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