Featured Books - AAIHS

Prison Policy from the Bottom Up

January 11, 2021January 10, 2021 Amanda Hughett #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, law, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves:

The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century

December 9, 2020January 11, 2021 Shaun Armstead #TheBlackRepublic, black internationalism, Black political thought, Haiti

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American

“We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black”

December 7, 2020January 11, 2021 Leslie M. Alexander #TheBlackRepublic, Haiti, Historical Memory, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. On January 2, 1893, eighty-nine

Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’

November 30, 2020November 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors #TheBlackRepublic

December 7-11, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online roundtable on