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Framing Black Women’s Lives in Philadelphia
I am a multigenerational survivor of domestic terror in the United States, most of it north of the Mason Dixon The post Framing Black Women’s Lives in Philadelphia first appeared on AAIHS.
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Fury and Disrepute: Black Women’s Feminism in Lawless Times
We rarely read stories about unrespectable women. When we do, they are often white, middle class, heterosexual, and cisgender. Unrespectable The post Fury and Disrepute: Black Women’s Feminism in...
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Black Women Fighting Back: Philadelphia Style
Black women’s history is filled with examples of individual women—and the organizations they helped to create—fighting back against a host The post Black Women Fighting Back: Philadelphia Style first...
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Weapons of the Furious: Vengeance Feminism as “Loving Correction”
Kali Nicole Gross’s Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times opens with the story of how The post Weapons of the Furious: Vengeance Feminism as “Loving Correction” first...
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Online Roundtable–Kali Nicole Gross’s ‘Vengeance Feminism’
May 4–12, 2026 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Kali Nicole The post Online Roundtable–Kali Nicole...
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Origins of Black Feminist Thought in the Americas: An Interview with Sophia...
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Sophia Monegro The post Origins of Black Feminist Thought in the Americas: An...
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Christy Garrison-Harrison on Black Feminist Geographies
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought, interviews Christy Garrison-Harrison, a scholar of Black Womanist Geographies, about The post Christy Garrison-Harrison on...
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Vengeance Feminism: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross
In today’s post, Dr. Keisha N. Blain, Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, interviews renowned historian Dr. The post Vengeance Feminism: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross...
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Revisiting Salaria Kea’s Story
During the interwar period, Salaria Kea became one of the most famous Black American antifascist women of the early 20th The post Revisiting Salaria Kea’s Story first appeared on AAIHS.
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Honoring Black Women’s Transnational Intellectual Production
This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. The Dialectic is in the Sea: The post Honoring Black Women’s Transnational Intellectual Production first appeared on AAIHS.
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Black Is, Black Ain’t: “Unnatural by Whose Standard?”
Representations of Blackness in film and other visual mediums have often presented Black identity in ways that are limiting and The post Black Is, Black Ain’t: “Unnatural by Whose Standard?” first...
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Rosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance
This article was originally published on February 17, 2015 It’s Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out The post Rosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance first appeared on AAIHS.
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On Transnational Black Feminism
Today’s post was originally published on April 14, 2017. Black women and other women of color have been historically marginalized The post On Transnational Black Feminism first appeared on AAIHS.
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A Womanist Dancing Mind in Wilderness Archives
This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ To enter the archive as a historian who studies the The post A Womanist Dancing Mind in Wilderness Archives first appeared on AAIHS.
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The Life and Legacy of Thereza Santos
This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” Born Jaci dos Santos on July 7, 1938, The post The Life and Legacy of Thereza Santos first appeared on AAIHS.
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Translating Global Antiblackness: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Translating Blackness comes from a very personal place—from my The post Translating Global Antiblackness: An...
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy
As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.
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Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism
Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope of her leftist, anti-imperial
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Lorraine Hansberry: the Organizer
This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision As I completed the research for Radical Vision, I
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Lorraine Hansberry and the Praxis of Freedom
This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision How does one sharpen our focus on
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