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Celia, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Diffusion of Black Thought

April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 Brandon Byrd #BlackLivesMatter, black protest, Black women, teaching

One of the hardest days in my early African American history class is the day that we analyze State of

Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history

Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Reena Goldthree Antigua, Black women, Caribbean, emancipation, slavery

This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 Kellie Carter Jackson black politics, Black women, slavery

Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s