AAIHS

AAIHS

African American Intellectual History Society

Follow Us On Social Media

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Published by AAIHS

  • Home
  • About
    • About Black Perspectives
    • Editorial Board
    • Submit a Guest Post or Roundtable Proposal
  • Contributors
  • Featured Books
  • Author Interviews
  • Roundtables
  • Resources
    • AF AM Job Openings
    • #Charlestonsyllabus
    • Prison Abolition Syllabus
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Filter by Categories
AAIHS Business
Abolition
Abolitionism
Activism
Africa
African American Death Ideology
African American History survey
African American material culture
African diaspora
American exceptionalism
American identity
American Revolution
Antebellum
anti-capitalism
Archives
Art
Assimilationism
Author Interview
Black Ecologies
Black Europe
Black Family
Black Feminism
Black Freethought
Black Girls
Black history
Black Identity
Black Internationalism
Black Political Thought
Black Power
Black Protest
Black Protestantism
Black Studies
Black Urban History
Black Youth
Book Review
capitalism
Caribbean
Cemetery/Burial Grounds
Civil Rights Movement
Civil War
class
Comics
Death
Desegregation
early republic
Economics
Education
Embodiment
Featured Books
Featured Posts
Film
Free People of Color
Gender
Geography
Hashtag Syllabi
Higher Education
Hip-Hop
historiography
HIV-AIDS
Indigenous Studies
Intellectual Identity
Interview
Interwar Period
Jazz
Jim Crow
Labor
Latin America
Law and legal history
LGBT
Liberalism
Literature
Lynchings
Marcus Garvey
maroons
Meaning of freedom
medical racism
Memory
methods
Military
Monuments
Mourning
Museums
Music
New Negro
Oral History
Pedagogy
Performance
Plantations
Poetry
Policing
Popular Culture
Post-Racial ideology
Primary Sources
Print Culture
Prisons
Professional Development
Race
Race Consciousness
Racial Violence
Racism
Reconstruction
Religion
Resistance
Resources
respectability
Roundtables
School Equality
Science Fiction
Sexuality
Slave law
Slave revolts
Slavery
Sport
Teaching
Uncategorized
UNIA
Visuality
Voting rights
Webinars
Women

West Africa

Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 Menika Dirkson africa, Alex Haley, Genealogy, Roots, television, West Africa

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

Read more

‘Footprints of Panafricanism’: An Interview with Filmmaker Shirikiana Aina

July 23, 2018July 26, 2018 Nubia Kai africa, African Diaspora, Black film, film, Pan-Africanism, West Africa, women in film

In today’s post, poet, playwright and novelist Nubia Kai interviews Shirikiana Aina about her new film, Footprints of Panafricanism. An independent filmmaker,

Read more

African Spirituality and the Power of Religious Reclamation

October 9, 2017October 11, 2017 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, religion, West Africa

Return to the moment you first saw Beyoncé emerge through the iron doors in the golden-yellow gown as water flows

Read more
Sylvanus Olympio in Munich, 1961. Photo: Wikimedia/German Federal Archives.

Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Marius Kothor black nationalism, civil rights, colonialism, West Africa

As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these

Read more

The Transatlantic Journey of South Carolina Freedman James Churchwill Vaughan

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 Lisa A. Lindsay black, Immigration, West Africa

From the eighteenth century to our own time, a range of African Americans have traveled “back” to Africa in hopes

Read more
  • ← Previous
Copyright © 2023 AAIHS. All rights reserved. Site by GNDWS