“…they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect…”
“They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to
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Black Ivy in the Classroom: How Black Teachers Used Style as Pedagogy
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I viewed Black teachers as icons of fashion and style. Mr. Willie Cain,
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Race-Making Across Borders: How Sudan Challenges the Study of Race
This post is part of our online roundtable on Christopher Tounsel’s Bounds of Blackness. What defines Blackness, and who gets to decide? In
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Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson
The passing of the Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026) leaves the world without one of its major remaining ties to the
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2026 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the ninth annual Pauli Murray Book
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