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Colorful painted buildings of Favela in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. (Shutterstock-Skreidzeleu)

Online Forum–Race & Latin America

October 9, 2023October 8, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, Carnival, Latin America, Women

October 11, 2023 to October 19, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II

May 3, 2023August 7, 2023 Menika Dirkson art, interview, lynching, Memory, methods

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

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Aaron Douglas’ History Lesson on the Responsibility of Black Artists

March 22, 2023March 17, 2023 Tiffany Pennamon Aaron Douglas, art, Fisk, HBCU, labor

In an interview with Fisk University professor Leslie Collins, Harlem Renaissance painter and educator Aaron Douglas recalled his admiration for

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Norman Lewis and the Responsibility of Presentness

January 18, 2023January 13, 2023 Clay Matlin #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, art, black intellectuals, democracy, Norman Lewis

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The general consensus, scholarly and lay,

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James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Amy Kittelstrom #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto

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