- Historians Wrestle with the Complexities of Defining Blackness🔍
- Toward a Framework of Black Historical Consciousness🔍
- The Founders of Black History Month🔍
- 34 Women Explain The Complexity Of “Blackness”🔍
- The Condemnation of Blackness🔍
- Black History Milestones🔍
- Defining African American authorship🔍
- How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life🔍
Historians Wrestle with the Complexities of Defining Blackness
Historians Wrestle with the Complexities of Defining Blackness
God wills us free, man wills us slave. I will as God wills, God's will be done.” I begin my reflection of the first session of the Future of the African ...
Toward a Framework of Black Historical Consciousness
King to share his research on teaching Black histories. He dismantles the notion of “Black history as American history” and offers instead a conceptualization ...
The Founders of Black History Month | BLACK HISTORY THEMES
When Carter G. Woodson established Negro History week in 1926, he realized the importance of providing a theme to focus the attention of the public.
34 Women Explain The Complexity Of “Blackness” - NYLON
Issa Rae once said, "The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a ...
The Condemnation of Blackness - Harvard University Press
Winner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeA Moyers & Company Best Book of the Year“A brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has ...
Black History Milestones: Timeline
African American history began with slavery, as white European settlers first brought Africans to the continent to serve as enslaved workers ...
Defining African American authorship - Scholars Archive
My central claim is that Johnson and Tolson, while writing from opposite sides of the pivotal literary period that was the New Negro Renaissance ...
How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life
Hartman has explored the interior lives of enslaved people and their descendants, employing a method that she says “troubles the line between history and ...
Redistricting fight over who is Black in Louisiana voting map - NPR
Republican officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set a narrower definition of "Black" for redistricting that excludes ...
Our Past. My Future. Growing up Black in America. | by Made By Us
History is a collection of experiences remembered. Young voices share their view on growing up Black, looking to the past and the future.
Talking About Race | National Museum of African American History ...
Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. We are here to provide tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.
The Complexities of Black Feminism in Europe - AAIHS
Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande's powerful anthology of writings by feminists of African descent, To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism ...
Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society
Racially segregated housing creates racial isolation, with disproportionate costs to Black Americans' opportunities, networks, education, wealth ...
The Combahee River Collective Statement - American Studies
Black, other Third World, and working women have been involved in the feminist movement from its start, but both outside reactionary forces and racism and ...
Defining Pro-Black - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
There is a shift afoot in the field, from critiquing white supremacist culture and calling out anti-Blackness to designing for pro-Blackness. So ...
In Dialogue: What is misunderstood about Blackness?
The visibility of race is a myth. And yet it remains common for Americans to ignore, overlook, or forget that Black identity (and African ...
Fighting For Freedom: African Americans Choose Sides During the ...
Both the Continental and British armies employed black people into their ranks to aid their existing armies in the field.
W. E. B. Du Bois ‑ Beliefs, Niagara Movement & NAACP | HISTORY
WEB Du Bois, or William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was an African American writer, teacher, sociologist and activist whose work transformed the way that the ...
The Smithsonian's Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure ...
The National Museum of African American History and Culture aims to faithfully represent blackness in America but does not present the full force of its rage.
A brief overview of Black religious history in the U.S.
Two-thirds of Black Americans are Protestant, like about four-in-ten Americans overall. The relationship between Black Americans and ...