Featured Books - AAIHS

‘Back to Black’: A New Book on Black Radicalism

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black politics, 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

‘Jezebel Unhinged’: A New Book on the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture

September 17, 2018September 18, 2018 J. T. Roane black feminism, Black women, Gender, religion

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

Marcus Garvey’s Vision of Pan-Africanism

September 14, 2018September 18, 2018 Rupert Lewis Caribbean, Cuba, garvey, Garveyism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is an excerpt from Rupert Lewis’s Marcus Garvey (University of the West Indies Press, 2017). The book is part of the University

Cuba and the Making of a United States Left

September 14, 2018September 16, 2018 Karen Dubinsky Afro-Cubans, Cuba

As revolutions go, the Cuban Revolution had it all: handsome masculine icons toppling a ruthless U.S.-backed dictator against dramatic backdrops

Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

September 13, 2018September 18, 2018 Teona Williams Activism, Chicago, environment, Great Migration, Migration

Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called