Popular Culture - AAIHS

Black Design in Chicago: An Exhibit and Symposium

January 25, 2019January 29, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis art, Chicago, design, Public History

If Harlem was the capital of Black fine arts in the United States in the twentieth century, Chicago was the

‘White Rebels in Black’: An Interview with Priscilla Layne

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Kira Thurman African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, race, racism, white supremacy

In today’s post, Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, interviews Priscilla

Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

January 10, 2019January 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch film, literature, slave trade, slavery

Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka

1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power

December 31, 2018January 29, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black Power, black protest, culture, music

James Brown’s iconic song “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” was released in August 1968, seemingly a

Afro-German during the Third Reich. Photo: Propaganda-Pravada.

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Jamele Watkins African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, masculinity

Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is