Featured Books - AAIHS

Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 Anastasia Curwood Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Sometime during the Great Depression, a young working-class Black man acquired a 1925 first-edition copy of The New Negro: An

‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 J. T. Roane sexuality, slavery

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

Afro-German during the Third Reich. Photo: Propaganda-Pravada.

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Jamele Watkins African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, masculinity

Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is

Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

‘Radical Intellect’: An Interview with Historian Christopher M. Tinson

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black press, primary source

In today’s post, blogger Rebecca Brenner interviews Christopher M. Tinson about his new book, Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Tinson