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Jessye Norman and The Struggle for Black Pathos

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 Kwame Holmes art, Black women, eugenics, Gender, music, white supremacy

soll ich lauschen?                        Shall I listen? Soll ich schlürfen,                       Shall I drink, untertauchen?                             immerse? Süß in Düften                           

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Online Forum: Honoring the Life and Work of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 AAIHS Editors #RosalynTerborgPenn, aaihs, forum

October 21–24, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum honoring the life

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Fantastic and Fatal Coalitions: Revisiting ‘Blood Syndicate’

October 8, 2019October 6, 2019 Rebecca Wanzo #comicsandrace, #MilestoneMedia, black intellectual history, comic books, comics, race, urban history, violence

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In 1983, Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Salvific Manhood: A New Book about Male Intimacy in James Baldwin’s Novels

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queer Identity, Gender, James Baldwin, literature, masculinity, sexuality

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

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How Black Women Steered National Politics Through Local Activism in Washington, DC

October 3, 2019October 8, 2019 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Politics, Washington DC

Many histories of America’s capital city have explored the personal networks of political figures. They have revealed the sociopolitical influence

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