Popular Culture - AAIHS

The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

Online Forum: HBO’s Watchmen

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors #Watchmen, black politics, comic books, comics, film, forum, popular culture, race, television

February 10–13, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on HBO’s hit series

We are our own Multitude: Los Angeles’ Black Panamanian Community

November 4, 2019November 2, 2019 Jenise Miller #BlackCalifornia, African Diaspora, Afro-Latinx, California, Caribbean, culture, Los Angeles, Panama

*This essay is republished in partnership with Boom California as part of an ongoing series on Black California. On a Saturday

Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’

October 14, 2019October 9, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, popular culture, Resistance, slavery

Until recently, the salutations of Black America were an anomaly to mainstream white Americans. The verbal expressions, hand gestures, and

‘I’m just a kid’: Representation in Milestone Comics’ ‘Icon’

October 11, 2019October 6, 2019 Matthew Teutsch #MilestoneMedia, black childhood, comic books, comics, MEDIA, race, youth

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In the 1970s, when the