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Reimagining Liberation: A New Book about Black Women who Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

March 20, 2020March 15, 2020 AAIHS Editors black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, Pan-Africanism

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

Playwright, Storyteller, and Critical Educator: An Interview with Rachel Maddox

December 6, 2019November 30, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, education, LGBT, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Rachel Maddox who is a Black, non-binary playwright, teaching artist, and critical educator based

Refusing the Biopolitical State: An Interview with Nathalie Batraville

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, biopolitics, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black women, Canada, education, Gender, Haiti, pedagogy, sexuality

In a first-of-its-kind study undertaken by political scientist Malinda Smith at University of Alberta in 2018, Smith found that Black professors

No Longer Invisible, An African American Woman’s Journey

October 23, 2019October 18, 2019 Ida E. Jones #RosalynTerborgPenn, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women, education, pedagogy, race

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr.

Jargon for the Blacks—and Others

September 30, 2019September 22, 2019 Marquis Bey Black Queers, education, Gender, language, race, sexuality, trans identity

Time and again, usually a few times a year, I haphazardly stumble upon someone castigating the use of “jargon,” at