Search Results for: Du Bois

“More and More Influential”: Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump

February 8, 2017February 12, 2017 Juliet Hooker Donald Trump, Frederick Douglass

As President Trump recently said on the occasion of Black History Month, Frederick Douglass “is being recognized by more and

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Black History Month Book Giveaways from Black Perspectives

January 31, 2017February 6, 2017 AAIHS Editors

In celebration of Black History Month, Black Perspectives will be giving away free books to our readers during the month

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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

January 23, 2017February 18, 2017 Dan Berger #BloodintheWater, archives, carceral state, mass incarceration

This is the second day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Independence Day Manifesto

January 20, 2017January 22, 2017 Russell Rickford black protest, capitalism, democracy, Donald Trump

How shall integrity face oppression? — W. E. B. Du Bois Welcome to Trump’s America. In the dark times ahead,

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Transcending Time: Centering Literature at Festac 77

January 17, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, West Africa

In January 1977, a month-long celebration of African diasporic culture brought participants from fifty-five countries to Lagos, Nigeria, including several

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