Black scholarship speaks
The African American Intellectual History Society, founded in 2014, hosted its first annual conference last weekend at UNC Chapel Hill. Scholars from various disciplines delivered engaging papers around the theme “new perspectives on the black intellectual tradition.”
The changing nature of black identity in today’s world is complex. What does it mean to be black? Or American? Or African American? How should scholars treat the past and the present in relation to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and class?
The AAIHS annual conference opens a space for lively scholarly conversation around these questions. Below, three of the conference participants reflect on their experiences.
