Here and There
It’s the way we have been obsessed with the Crafts from the beginning of professional Black history for me. The front page of Issue 1:1 (1937) of the Negro History Bulletin, which began to be published monthly by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
#Mapat20 is the cure we all needed. Rewatch everything here, starting with the Reflections.
This is a wild conversation I did not finish and which deserves more space than a mention. Maybe another time. But at one point Wood says Jefferson did not call for genocide, Holton says he LITERALLY called for extermination and Wood says, essentially, well no he didn’t mean that. And that’s just the first fifteen minutes. Slate's headline on this is:”The Historians Are Fighting.” The headline is missing an adjective, that adjective rhymes with “tight.” The Black historians are actually not fighting. In fact, several of them penned essays for the 1619 Project book. That said, Holton is true co-conspirator and I am glad to have him on the right side history in this debate. Woody keep going!!!
Habiba Ibrahim in conversation on Black Age on New Books in AfroAm:
Lagniappe
Am I going to cite Dorothy Berry’s essay every week or am I going to cite it every day? That is the question. This week I am citing it in a keynote I’m delivering at the Americas Online Conference sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Here is the essay: https://www.uproot.space/features/the-house-archives-built
Am I going to cite Yomaira C. Figueroa’s Decolonizing Diasporas every week or am I going to cite it every day? That is the question.
always learning,
jmj