In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the law. Books by Jessica Millward and Martha Jones have shown how enslaved women used local courts to flesh out legal standing for Black kinship ties and Black citizenship prior to emancipation. Emily A. Owens’ study| AAIHS - African American Intellectual History Society
August 26th to September 3rd, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento (Princeton University Press, 2024) by Christen Smith, Archie Davis, and Bethânia Gomes. Beatriz Nascimento was an Afro-Brazilian| AAIHS - African American Intellectual History Society
"Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their bodies" This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the academic achievement gap--built and continuously renovated by the 100-year-old standardized testing movement. It is a centennial that hardly anyone knows about. These days, many people are| AAIHS - African American Intellectual History Society
