Resistance - AAIHS

The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

November 2, 2023October 29, 2023 Rebecca Dudley book review, civil rights, Jim Crow, racism, Resistance

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

The Black Left and Political Repression

October 30, 2023October 29, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Left, CBFS Interview, interview, Radicalism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

Online Forum–Hip Hop at 50

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

August 14, 2023 to August 25, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced

The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Frank Kalisik race, slavery

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in