Black Identity - AAIHS

Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

Reflecting on his time as a member of the Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) football team, journalist Eric “Ric”

African American imaginings of Africa often intermingle with–and help illuminate–intimate hopes and desires for Black life in the United States.

“Depending on the ‘truth’ of the alternate versions, Liberia’s founding may be seen as a white kindness or as a