Featured Books - AAIHS

The Education of Black Boys

January 31, 2019February 2, 2019 Nadrea Njoku black feminism, black intellectual history, Gender, masculinity, race

In both Keisha Lindsay’s In A Classroom Of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male

1941, (Russell Lee, Library of Congress)

The Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement

January 29, 2019March 31, 2019 Say Burgin black press, book review, masculinity, race

Upon leaving the Nation of Islam (NOI) in March of 1964, Malcolm X spoke publicly about what he called Elijah

‘Worldmaking After Empire’: A New Book about Self-Determination

January 28, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Caribbean

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Black Queer Southern Women: A New Book in Oral History

January 25, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane Black women, LGBT, oral history, sexuality

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

‘White Rebels in Black’: An Interview with Priscilla Layne

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Kira Thurman African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, race, racism, white supremacy

In today’s post, Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, interviews Priscilla