Search Results for: racism

Remembering Victoria Santa Cruz: A Global Life

September 16, 2024October 25, 2024 Heidi Carolyn Feldman #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Activism, African Diaspora, Black women

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  “I was born Black, I

Read more

Online Forum-Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora

September 13, 2024September 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Activism, African Diaspora, Black women

September 16-23, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum considering the

Read more

Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Tanguy GIL France, literature, Louisiana

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

Read more

Black Women’s Fiction and Medical Experimentation

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Norrell Edwards medical experimentation, race

The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare existing racial inequalities in our healthcare system. The magnified death toll for Black and Brown

Read more

White Nativism, Haitian Immigrants, and Black Solidarity

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 Willie Mack antiblackness, blackness, Haiti, Identity

In a recent appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, former president Donald Trump claimed his opponent in

Read more