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Refusing the Biopolitical State: An Interview with Nathalie Batraville
In a first-of-its-kind study undertaken by political scientist Malinda Smith at University of Alberta in 2018, Smith found that Black professors
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Madness Has the Range
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness You live, you
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Black Madness :: Mad Blackness — An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness I was surprised
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Intimate Historical Practice
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked
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Recovering the Lives of City Women
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is
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A Flash of Life and Light
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. How to contend with
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Wayward Negro Religions in the 20th Century Slum
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. The beautiful anarchy of
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Intimate History, Radical Narrative
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Archival documents are scattered
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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography II
In honor of Pride Month 2020, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,
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On Black Women’s Ecologies
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. “Oh to
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The Intersections of Blackness and Disability
I’m listening to jazz as I write this review. This was an intentional decision as I felt Therí Alyce Pickens’s
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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning
Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.
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The Power of Black Motherhood during COVID-19 and the Uprisings
Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read
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The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay: An Interview with Shanna G. Benjamin
In today’s post, Tyler D. Parry, the senior editor of Black Perspectives and Vice President of AAIHS, interviews Shanna G.
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Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton’
Since its release on Christmas Day, Bridgerton has attracted international attention for its racial cosmopolitan reenactment of early nineteenth-century Britain.
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A Family History of British Empire
“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,
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Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies
Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote
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Audre Lorde: Meet
1.arrangement “There is a place here where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean and it is very magical,
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Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective
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The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell
As many across the U.S. were gearing up last year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and
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