The Idea of the Black Intellectual
When I first began to teach a class titled Black Intellectual Thought, I wanted to broaden the classic definition of
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A Bibliography of African American Freethought
Over the past two years, I have been conducting research for a book project on African American freethought, an orientation
Read moreBlack Women’s Histories: Conversations
As a regular writer and blogger for Ms. Magazine, I have been engaging in some fruitful conversations with black feminist
Read moreQuestions You Might Have Opinions About: Self-critique, Language, The Nadir, and Historical Accuracy in a Film (*not Selma)
This post is a bit more informal than the carefully researched posts of my colleagues on this blog. I would
Read moreInsanity, the Historian, and the Slave Catcher: “Capturing” Black Voices
First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in
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