Welcome to H-Afro-Am, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. The main mission of H-Afro-Am is to provide an exchange of information for professionals, faculty and advanced students, in the field of African-American Studies.
H-Afro-AM is currently seeking new editors. See our call here.
Welcome to H-Afro-Am, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. The main mission of H-Afro-Am is to provide an exchange of information for professionals, faculty, students and others interested in teaching and discussing the African American expereince as well as issues of race in America and the Diaspora.
We accept posts CFP's, announcements, queries and discussion. As long as you're subscribed to H-Afro-Am, posting is easy. Just click the orange "Start a Discussion" button at the top of this text. Enter your message, add a few keywords, and click "Review" at the bottom of the page. If everything looks OK, click "Submit to Editor" and that's it! You can reply to any post at the bottom of the post. One of our editors will review your post (usually within 24 hours).
We look forward to the discussion and dialogue. [Follow us on Twitter @H_Afro_Am]
I have your paper in my collection of papers and I found it to be very interesting. It turned out that one of the leaders of the opposition to changing a name here in Dallas was an immigrant from Poland and I told him about your paper. It didn't have an effect on his opposition. Sorry about the delay in reply.
Landscape reparations is definitely an interesting concept for the field of toponymy.
In the early 2000s, I wrote an article about the renaming of a street in Chicago from that of a white farmer/settler to a Polish-American hero. There was a big fight about it, one that lasted 19 years.
Although it is primarily narrative rather than theoretical, perhaps it would be helpful to you in some way:
“The Street Formerly Known as Crawford,” Chicago History (Spring 2001): 36-51.
Amanda
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America has launched the #SuffrageSyllabus, a collaborative teaching resource on the intersectional history of women and voting in the United States. The syllabus includes lesson plans, primary and secondary sources. https://long19.radcliffe.harvard.edu/teaching/suffrage-syllabus/ Many thanks to the members of H-Afro-Am who contributed ideas for the #SuffrageSyllabus!
I'm looking for a bibliography on African-American maritime history, ideally from colonization through the early 20th century. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
I am working with Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library to create an intersectional #suffragesyllabus on the gendered and racialized history of voting rights in the United States from the 1830s to the present. Highlighting the ideas
The Abbott-Sengstacke Papers at the Chicago Public Library include financial records, correspondence and other items that may include the information you are looking for. The finding aid (https://www.chipublib.org/fa-abbott-sengstacke-family-papers-2/) show a gap in the Defender's financial records from the late 1920s, however it is possible that the records are part of the estate dispute that started around the period you are interested in.
The Abbott-Sengstacke Family Papers are held by the Chicago Public Library. The collection is pretty extensive and holds personal & professional business records and correspondence.
Angela Tate
PhD student | Northwestern University
Dear colleagues,
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for business records for the Chicago Defender pertaining to funds collected in 1926/27 in support of plans to build a monument in Brazil. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks very much,
Kimberly Cleveland
Associate Professor of Art History
Welch School of Art & Design
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4107
Atlanta, GA 30302
kcleveland@gsu.edu
Dear H-Afro-Am Network,
My article entitled, "Why Right-wing Commentators Distort the History of Slavery and Emancipation," was published in the Washington Post on December 6, 2019. It may be of interest to many in this group.
The link is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/06/why-right-wing-commentators-distort-history-slavery-emancipation/
Best Regards,
Tyler D. Parry
In The News
I have Austin book. I'm looking for an article he referenced in it. Louis Harlan, "The Prince: The Biography of a Slave" (mostly a condensation of Sydnor) , and B. Marie Perinbam, "Abd al-Rahman: A Critical Note," in Job Ben Solomon and Abd al-Rahman: The Stories of Two Men in Slavery (Washington, D.C. American Historical Society, 1970).
Dear Muhammad and Lasana,
I don't know if this will be helpful, but you can find full text publications of Abdul Rahman Ibrahima, Omar ibn Said, and other African Muslim slave narratives at the UNC collection "Documenting the American South" (link below). You may also be interested in my article on three African Muslim "conversion narratives" in A/B: Auto/Biography Studies. Contact me at pathorn@unc.edu if you would like a copy.
Peace. You may wish to try your/a university library. Upon a searching my university's online stacks, I was able to locate a copy of the Austin's work (i.e, the 759p. Sourcebook). In fact, it's available at several libraries in the system. If you're affiliated with a university, you may wish to pursue interlibrary loan.
Other than that, I checked Biblio.com and a few other rare book dealer sites, but could not find the book.
I hope this is helpful.
As-salaam-alaikum.
L. Kazembe
IUPUI
Dear all,
I am looking for participants for a panel I’m organizing for the Fifth Annual Conference of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) at the University of Texas at Austin, March 6-7, 2020. (https://www.aaihs.org/general-information/)
The Sounding Spirit team is delighted to announce the spring launch of its inaugural digital library. The product of a one year NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations grant, the pilot digital library features songbooks and hymnals published across the US South from 1850 to 1925 that mediate the role of race, place, and religion in American music history and culture.
Indiana Humanities is pleased to offer a fellowship of $2,500 to support new humanities research that explores anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana and how Black Hoosiers have responded.
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships
During the second year of our lecture series, The Ohio State University will move from last year’s focus on the slavery era to a year-long program focusing on the legacies of
I have your paper in my collection of papers and I found it to be very interesting. It turned out that one of the leaders of the opposition to changing a name here in Dallas was an immigrant from Poland and I told him about your paper. It didn't have an effect on his opposition. Sorry about the delay in reply.
The Clark Art Institute’s Research and Academic Program (RAP) awards funded residential fellowships to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. As part of our commitment to fostering diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP particularly seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically been underrepresented in the discipline.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
7 September 2020 to 14 September 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Afro-Am. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
31 August 2020 to 7 September 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Afro-Am. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Registration now open: Virtual 2020 Conrad E. Wright Research Conference
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2021-2022 Fellowship competition. The Center awards academic year residential fellowships to scholars, practitioners, journalists, and public intellectuals from any country with outstanding project proposals on global issues.
New England Historical Association (a regional affiliate of AHA) invites proposals for its fall 2020 virtual conference on Oct. 17th. We are particularly interested in panels and papers addressing the following:
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
17 August 2020 to 24 August 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Afro-Am. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
10 August 2020 to 17 August 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Afro-Am. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Landscape reparations is definitely an interesting concept for the field of toponymy.
In the early 2000s, I wrote an article about the renaming of a street in Chicago from that of a white farmer/settler to a Polish-American hero. There was a big fight about it, one that lasted 19 years.
Although it is primarily narrative rather than theoretical, perhaps it would be helpful to you in some way:
“The Street Formerly Known as Crawford,” Chicago History (Spring 2001): 36-51.
Amanda
Call for Papers
Special issue of Southern Cultures: Built/Unbuilt
Guest Editor: Burak Erdim, NC State University College of Design
