Featured Books - AAIHS

Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora

June 19, 2018July 2, 2018 J. T. Roane African Diaspora, culture, slave trade, slavery

On Sunday April 17, 2016, my extended family in Tidewater Virginia was struck by the tragedy of a double loss.

A Bibliography of Black Internationalism, Part II

June 18, 2018December 15, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism

The scholarship on Black internationalism has grown in leaps and bounds since my first reading list on the topic–originally published

Religion in the Work of Langston Hughes

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 N’Kosi Oates Harlem, poetry, religion

It was 1914 when twelve-year-old Langston Hughes went to a Black Church for the first time. It marked him for

#SayHerName–Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson Black women, police brutality, police violence

In today’s post, Jenn M. Jackson, writer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago,