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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

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

Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence

September 5, 2024August 13, 2024 Sean Gallagher Black women, law, slave law, slavery

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

A Creative-Theoretical Immersion into Black Radical Intellectual Thought, Part 2

August 27, 2024August 13, 2024 Carole Boyce Davies #AAIHSRoundtable, #TheDialecticIsInTheSea, black radical tradition, Black women, Brazil

This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. Beatriz Nascimento thus provides some significant

Requiem for a Howard University Student

April 4, 2024March 27, 2024 Menika Dirkson Black women, Gender

On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a