Search Results for: James Baldwin

The Complexities of Race, Class, and Gender on Television

October 17, 2018October 21, 2018 Keelyn Bradley film

Following the recent fallout over Roseanne Barr’s racist comments, ABC introduced a spinoff show, The Conners, in an attempt to

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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

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Introducing the New Editorial Board of ‘Black Perspectives’

August 2, 2018August 13, 2018 AAIHS Editors

We’re excited to announce the creation of a new editorial board for the blog, which includes a diverse group of

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Online Forum: Remembering Sandra Bland

July 2, 2018July 9, 2018 AAIHS Editors #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, Sandra Bland

*July 9-13, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Sandra Bland

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“Freedom, Equality, and Race”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 28, 2018July 1, 2018 Marisa Parham #JeffreyFerguson, black intellectual history, Black Studies, literature

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March

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