Interwar Period - AAIHS

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

KKK members supporting Barry Goldwater’s campaign for the presidential nomination at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Source: Wikipedia.

The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Felix Harcourt black intellectual history, Racial Violence

“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which

How American Racism Shaped Nazism

October 5, 2017October 8, 2017 Rebecca Brenner Graham Immigration, race, racism, religion, violence, white supremacy

American democracy and liberty might appear to be the opposite of the fascism and horrors of Nazi Germany. But for

The Complexities of Racial and Religious Identities

September 29, 2017October 1, 2017 Tisa Wenger #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black nationalism, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s exhaustively researched and analytically brilliant new book,

Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial