Book Review - AAIHS

Keepin’ It Real in Contemporary Conversations on Race

November 6, 2020November 9, 2020 Omi McCadney black politics, blackness

Elwood David Watson’s Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a collection of essays analyzing tumultuous racial politics

Visualizing the End of Human Captivity

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Felicia Denaud art, book review, carceral state, police violence, prisons, race, violence

What happens to contemporary art when we foreground conditions in which expressive autonomy incites repression, surveillance, and severe punishment? What

Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century

October 8, 2020October 13, 2020 Ashley Dennis capitalism, Politics, reparations

As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna

How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Brandon James Render Black film, civil rights, race

Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,

The Complexities of Black Feminism in Europe

September 17, 2020September 16, 2020 Julia Chinyere Oparah Black women

Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande’s powerful anthology of writings by feminists of African descent, To Exist is to Resist: Black