What's New: May 2020
May 20, 2020
In May 2020, Oxford African American Studies Center added 39 articles. Discover a selection of featured articles:
African American National Biography
The AANB has been updated with 8 new biographies:
Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography
The DCALAB has been updated with 22 new biographies:
Columbus, Christopher and Diego
Allsopp, Philip Anderson Desmond
Griffith, Catherine Elaine Gumbs
New Thematic Spotlight Articles
18th Century Black Atlantic (Vincent Carretta, Editor)
Hip Hop (Michael Jeffries, Editor)
New York City (Carla Peterson, Editor)
African American Food in New York
Harlem and the New Negro Renaissance
Black Newspapers in New York City, 1827-1864
Southern California (Keenan Norris, Editor)
Black Muslims in San Bernardino
Catch up with AASC:
Dispatches from the Editor in Chief: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses the recent television show Watchmen and what its alternate history of America tells us about our obligation to the past.
Guest Editorial by Carla L. Peterson: "Black Modernity in Antebellum New York: A Cultural History"
Photo Essay: African Americans in San Francisco and Oakland, by Imam Abdul Waheed