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Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

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Online Forum: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

February 10, 2021February 14, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AudreLorde

February 15-19, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum to

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What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis black politics, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, South

I found myself thinking about Julian Bond when the news broke that Georgia had elected its first Black senator, Reverend

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Blog Announcement: New Editors and Bloggers

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the new year! Thank you for supporting us over these past

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Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Shannon King #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, slavery

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. In We Are Not

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