african american studies Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/african-american-studies/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:21:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Curated Group: Global Blackness https://humanitiesfutures.org/groups/global-blackness/ Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:59:08 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=groups&p=3249 This curated set of think pieces features six reflections on global blackness.

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]]> Slavery’s History in the Age of the Database: Interface Design for Corrupted Files https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/slaverys-history-age-database-interface-design-corrupted-files/ Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:11:17 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=1833 By responding creatively to the archival challenges presented by the social history of slavery, Harvard Professor Vincent Brown hopes to...

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]]> Black History, Islam, and the Future of the Humanities Beyond White Supremacy https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/black-history-islam-future-humanities-beyond-white-supremacy/ Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:57:34 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=1634 Interpreting Islam as a form of Black history offers a scholarly framework for reimagining the humanities beyond white supremacy. This paper theorizes such a framework first by showing how modern Black people in Africa and the African diaspora constructed Islam as a religion and civilization of resistance to Euro-American imperialism and anti-Black racism.

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]]> The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman at Duke University https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/black-outdoors-fred-moten-saidiya-hartman-duke-university/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:13:07 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=1583 The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession seeks to interrogate the relation between race, sexuality, and juridical and...

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