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Challenging Jim Crow in New York City

May 1, 2019May 6, 2019 AAIHS Editors civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, New York

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

The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 Hilda Lloréns African Diaspora, capitalism, Puerto Rico, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe

On the Blackness of Flamenco

March 26, 2019August 12, 2022 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, culture, dance

Bubbling with duende—the flamenco lexicon for expressing a performer’s enchanting spirit, graceful power, and soulful it-factor—K. Meira Goldberg’s Sonidos Negros: On

Online Forum: The 20th Anniversary of Komozi Woodard’s ‘A Nation Within A Nation’

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 AAIHS Editors #NationWithinANation

April 1-5, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum celebrating the 20-year

The National Character of Black Oppression

March 6, 2019March 9, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly black nationalism, black politics, capitalism, Politics, race, racism

For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation