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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism

November 27, 2023November 8, 2023 Dylan O’Hara black intellectual history, FWP, literature, New Deal, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston

J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways

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Mary McLeod Bethune, the Pan-Africanist: An Interview with Ashley Robertson Preston

September 21, 2023August 20, 2023 Karen Cook Bell African Diaspora, Black women

This is an interview with Black Perspectives blogger Karen Cook Bell, Professor of History and the Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor

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The Afterlives of Migration in Panama and its Diaspora

May 29, 2023May 27, 2023 Sharika D. Crawford #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. In the last decades of the nineteenth

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2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSConference, AAIHS23, Book Award, conference, Pauli Murray, Pauli Murray Book Award Finalists

    The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli

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The Mystique of Chica da Silva

February 24, 2023February 16, 2023 Menika Dirkson Brazil, Chica da Silva, Enslaved women, Gender, Latin America, slavery

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

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