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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

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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

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Black Amazonia: Environmental Knowledge In the Struggle for Black Liberation In Brazil

May 14, 2020May 11, 2020 Tianna Bruno Black Ecologies, Brazil, environment, geography, Historical Memory, South America

The question of Black peoples’ relationship to the natural environment is a complex one. Overwhelmingly, scholarly discourse on this relationship

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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

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Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black Studies, literature

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

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