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Black Madness and Thinking Resistantly

May 28, 2020May 23, 2020 Christopher Baswell

This week we are revisiting Therí A. Pickens’s new book, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press, 2019). Today we are featuring an

Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

Ida Taught Me

May 16, 2020May 19, 2020 Koritha Mitchell Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, civil rights

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She

Claiming Freedom in the Low Country

May 13, 2020May 11, 2020 Adam McNeil Georgia, landownership, slavery

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’

May 12, 2020May 11, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable

May 18-22, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of African