Education - AAIHS

Coke Money and Apartheid Divestment in U.S. Higher Education

May 10, 2023May 11, 2023 Amanda Joyce Hall Activism, Apartheid, Emory, South Africa, Student Movement

Philanthropic gifting to US higher education amounted to an astronomical $52.9 billion in 2021. Higher education has enjoyed a long

Online Forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement

April 10, 2023April 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

April 11–18, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on

Surviving Academia: An Interview with Lorgia García Peña Pt. 2

March 20, 2023March 18, 2023 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, Gender

Today’s post is the second part of the African American Intellectual History Society’s president Hettie V. Williams’ interview with Dr.

Women of Color and the Neoliberal University: An Interview with Lorgia García Peña Pt. 1

March 10, 2023March 7, 2023 Hettie Williams Author Interview, Higher education, Neoliberal University, Women, Women of Color

In today’s post, Hettie V. Williams interviews Dr. Lorgia García Peña, author of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia

Black Student Activism and the Origins of the Stanford Canon Debate

March 1, 2023February 27, 2023 Brandon James Render Black Student Union, Curriculum, education, Higher education, Stanford, student activism

In the late 1980s, the Stanford University Black Student Union stood at the center of a controversy involving the school’s