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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

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CFP: Hip Hop at 50

May 5, 2023May 4, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, CFP, Gender, hip hop, music

The music journalist Sidney Shaw, the leading female character in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar, opened each of her interviews

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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life

May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 Cheryl X. Dong Activism, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black women

Tupac Shakur wrote  “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love.  The song is an unfiltered

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The Antiracist Visual Politics of Afro-Brazilians

April 4, 2023April 3, 2023 Andrea S. Allen #AAIHSRoundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives Part history, part ethnography, part media studies, and all

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Skate Culture and Black Women Rollin’

October 28, 2022October 24, 2022 Lauren Rorie #Bounce, Black Culture, Black women, music, Skating

This post is part of our forum on Bounce Music. Toes, heels, slides, and glides, it’s all about the beat! Black

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