Racial Ideologies and Struggles for Social Justice

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This panel, sponsored by the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), offers various perspectives on ideas about race and struggles for social justice during the twentieth century. The panel highlights the individual and group contributions of black intellectuals to national and global politics, racial ideologies, and social justice movements. Drawing insights from diverse fields including History, African American Studies, Feminist Theory, and Cultural Studies, this panel foregrounds the ideas and activities of black intellectuals in the United States and other parts of the globe from the early twentieth century to the 1960s.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Noelle Trent, National Civil Rights Museum

Individual Presentations

• More than “Cold Intellectual Success”: Anna Julia Cooper’s Revolutionary Pan Africanist Vision - E. Tsekani Browne, Montgomery College

• The Asian Origins of Black History Month: Carter G. Woodson in the Philippines - Guy Emerson Mount, University of Chicago

• When Ballyhoo Isn’t Enough: Politics and Race Relations in New York City - Marsha Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Antiracist Ideas and their Production of Social Justice Activists - Ibram X. Kendi, University of Florida

Commentator

• Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Associate Dean, The Graduate School, Michigan State University; Principal Investigator, Carter G. Woodson Home Historic Site