2017 in Review: Top Posts on Black Women’s History
In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), featured a wide variety of pieces, including articles that
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2017 in Review: Roundtables on Black Perspectives
In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), hosted ten online roundtables and forums, featuring leading scholars
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Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics
Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,
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Cosmic Literacies and Black Fugitivity
Star-gazing as a practice of fugitivity has a long history for Black Americans. According to folklore, spirituals like “Foller de
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The Historical Hatred of Haiti
In 2016, while campaigning in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Donald Trump told a group of Haitians that, “We have a
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