Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Online Roundtable-Adam Lee Cilli’s ‘Canaan, Dim and Far’

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 AAIHS Editors #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, book review, citizenship, Pittsburgh

February 6–10, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan,

Ye, Trump, and the Antisemitic Alliance

February 2, 2023January 30, 2023 David Weinfeld Black Celebrity, Black Hebrew Israelites, Black-Jewish Relations, Kanye West, Trump

A Black rapper, a Latino white supremacist, and former president sat down for dinner. It sounds like a bad joke,

George Jackson in a Global Frame

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Andrew Anastasi black intellectual history, Black Power

Fifty years ago, George Lester Jackson’s Blood in My Eye dropped like a bomb, but the author did not live to hear

‘Welcome to East Austin’: Black Power and the American Dream

January 23, 2023January 21, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. In 1971, the Community United Front,

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,