archives - AAIHS

The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

The University of Chicago, Urban Renewal, and the Black Community

April 12, 2021April 18, 2021 James Bradley Activism, archives, education, Racial Violence, religion, white supremacy

“It is not possible to operate and maintain a great university in a deteriorating or slum neighborhood,” proclaimed University of

Excavating the History of Afro-Brazilian Women

April 5, 2021April 18, 2021 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, archives, Brazil, carceral state, Historical Memory, slavery

Only a few pages remain of what is cited as the first known text written by an Afro-Brazilian woman. Rosa

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

African American Print Culture: An Interview with Laura Helton

February 4, 2021January 30, 2021 Robert Greene II archives, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, library

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Laura Helton, whose article