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

July 23, 2019July 28, 2019 AAIHS Editors 0 Comments
#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

Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography

June 28, 2019June 26, 2019 Emerald Rutledge 0 Comments
black feminism, Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, race, Resistance, sexuality

To close out Pride Month 2019, I compiled a list of texts ranging from traditional academic works to cultural

Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

April 29, 2019May 6, 2019 Katie Knowles Black women, book review, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas, co-edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, is a

Look at Me: A New Book About Education and the Black Queer Body

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 J. T. Roane education, embodiment, LGBT, sexuality

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

The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and