Featured Books - AAIHS

‘From the Tricontinental to the Global South’: A New Book on Race and Transnational Solidarity

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black radical tradition, Black radicalism

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

African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, racism, Resistance, South Africa

The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council

Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 Michael David Cohen black intellectual history, Jim Crow, race

In 1911, Richard Greener was introduced to an audience as “‘the first colored graduate of Harvard,’ ‘ex-Consul to Russia,’ and ‘the

Rastafarians and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Michael Barnett African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black Power, Pan-Africanism

Monique Bedasse’s Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization makes a commendable and sterling contribution to the body

Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 Adam McNeil Activism, archives, Baltimore, freedom, race, racism

Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and