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Afrofuturism in the Classroom

October 3, 2023September 18, 2023 Rochelle Spencer Afrofuturism, book review, Octavia Butler, pedagogy, teaching

The groundbreaking Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler (2019), edited by Tarshia Stanley, features a powerful essay by my colleague

Black Queer Lives: A Conversation with Moya Bailey and Laura Lovett

November 23, 2021November 22, 2021 Erik Wallenberg black feminism, Gender, sexuality

Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

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

Online Forum: Milestone Media Comics

October 1, 2019October 11, 2019 AAIHS Editors #MilestoneMedia, aaihs

October 7–11, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum exploring the Black-owned

Online Forum: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied

July 23, 2019July 28, 2019 AAIHS Editors #TonguesUntied30, art, Black cinema, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, race, sexuality

July 29–August 2, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum to commemorate