Book Review - AAIHS

Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors

May 29, 2019May 21, 2019 Christopher Bonner Activism, black politics, black protest, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice

May 16, 2019May 6, 2019 Ralph Callebert Activism, black internationalism, black protest, labor, race, Racial Capitalism, Resistance, South Africa

Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and

Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

April 29, 2019May 6, 2019 Katie Knowles Black women, book review, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas, co-edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, is a

The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation

April 19, 2019August 12, 2022 Grace D. Gipson black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, Resistance

“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to

Nation Time: ‘A Nation Within A Nation’ At Twenty

April 4, 2019August 12, 2022 Michael O. West black politics, Black Power, book review, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within