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Introducing the New Black Surrealisms Series

March 2, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors #NewBlackSurrealisms, digital media, MEDIA, race, Visual Culture

New Black Surrealisms, guest edited by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome P. Dent, Jr., extends recent interventions in Black media

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A Political Education: An Author’s Response

February 28, 2020February 23, 2020 Elizabeth Todd-Breland #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, education, education reform, organizing, teaching

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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An Open Letter to Netflix and the Producers and Directors of “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 AAIHS Editors

We are writing to express our profound disappointment at the complete disregard of women activists and women scholars in the

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2020 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the third annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for

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In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism

February 14, 2020February 9, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, education, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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