Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker
In today’s post, Francisco Herrera, an MA student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, interviews
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W.E.B. Du Bois
#AAIHS2017: Reflecting on the Past’s Presence 2.0
I recently attended the second annual AAIHS meeting at Vanderbilt University. I had the good fortune to attend the inaugural
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The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem
On June 25, 1942, Edward Atkinson arrived at 101 Central Park West to sit for a photo shoot in the
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Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma
First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened
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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead
Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME
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