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Online Forum: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, Madam CJ Walker, Resistance

May 20-24, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Madam C.

Black Women’s Fugitivity in Colonial America

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Black women, marronage, Resistance, slavery

Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of

Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

April 29, 2019May 6, 2019 Katie Knowles Black women, book review, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas, co-edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, is a

The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Kay Wright Lewis #DouglassForward, black lives matter, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation

April 19, 2019August 12, 2022 Grace D. Gipson black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, Resistance

“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to