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African American Intellectual History Society 2026

March 27, 2026 / Pittsburg, PA

Below, browse our new and forthcoming titles in African American intellectual history. Or, browse our complete list of books and journals in African American and Black Diaspora studies. If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Use coupon code AAIHS26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through May 8, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

Cover of Riding into History features a sepia-toned historical photograph of a young Black woman wearing a military uniform with buttons and a matching hat. The overall color scheme is a warm brownish tone.
Riding into History

The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel

Amy Nathan

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Cover of Archival Irruptions features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom.
Archival Irruptions

Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Katharine Gerbner

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Cover of Fueling Development has a dark blue background and a painting in the center. The painting depicts numerous, overlapping human figures in motion, in an abstract, cubist-like style.
Fueling Development

How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago

Zophia Edwards

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Award, CSA

Top half of the cover of A Wide Net of Solidarity features bold white text on a black background. Below, a sepia-toned photograph shows a fishing net strung across a sandy landscape, with shadows and scattered footprints in the sand.
A Wide Net of Solidarity

Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe

Anne Garland Mahler

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Cover of Halfway to Freedom is a print style featuring a line of people pushing the top of a monument up a steep hill. The people and the hill are black; the monument is off white, and the background is red orange.
Halfway to Freedom

The History of Black Washington, DC

Maurice Jackson

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Cover of Foremother Love features A Vivid Imagination, a hand-stitched silk collage by Billie Zangewa. The piece depicts the artist herself, a Black woman, sitting in a lounge chair sunbathing in her garden.
Foremother Love

Phillis Wheatley and Black Feminist Criticism

Dana Murphy

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Freeing Black Girls cover image
Freeing Black Girls

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

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Cover of Loving Black Boys features a purple and orange color overlay depicting two young boys walking together on a street, one with an arm around the other's shoulder.
Loving Black Boys

A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering

Tamura Lomax

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Exorbitance

A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance

Deborah A. Thomas

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Alive in the Sound

Black Music as Counterhistory

Ronald Radano

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Cover of Runagate is tan with a colorful circular detail from a quilt that features a tree with yellow leaves and a figure of a Black person carrying a bundle tied to a stick over their shoulder.
Runagate

Songs of the Freedom Bound

Crystal Simone Smith

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Cover of The Possible Form of an Interlocution features a black-and-white photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois wearing a dark suit, vest, white shirt, and bow tie, set against a gray background.
The Possible Form of an Interlocution

W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence

Nahum Dimitri Chandler

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Senghor

Writings on Politics

Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Cover of The Essential Senghor is a textured beige with the title in a teal serif font. Partially overlapping the very bottom of the title is a sepia colored photograph of<BR /> L&eacute;opold S&eacute;dar Senghor.
The Essential Senghor

African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics

Léopold Sédar Senghor

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The top half of the Cover of Quiet Dawn, text sits against a black-blue gradient background. A small graphic of a rising sun divides the text. The lower half features abstract art by Haitian artist Frank&eacute;tienne.
Quiet Dawn

Jean-Claude Fignolé

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Cover of Toward a Selected Writings, Volume 1 features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, wearing a dark suit and patterned shirt, with a calm expression.
Selected Writings, Volume 1

Toward a New African Art Discourse

Okwui Enwezor

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Cover of Selected Writings, Volume 2 features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, dressed in a dark suit and white shirt, with a neutral expression.
Selected Writings, Volume 2

Curating the Postcolonial Condition

Okwui Enwezor

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Cover of The Elsewhere Is Black features a sculpture by Curtis Cuffie. The sculpture is tall and eclectic. It is made of colorful, found materials stacked and draped over a pole in an outdoor urban setting under a cloudy sky.
The Elsewhere Is Black

Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Marisa Solomon

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Inhabitants of the Deep

The Blueness of Blackness

Jonathan Howard

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Cover of Breaking the World features the Pillars of Creation, a star forming region in the galaxy, in orange and warm hues against a brilliant star-filled sky.
Breaking the World

Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Justin L. Mann

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Cover of When Home Is a Photograph features a silver iridescent couch on a hardwood floor surrounded by a gallery wall of framed artwork and photographs on a white wall. The art is arranged by color to create a rainbow.
When Home Is a Photograph

Blackness and Belonging in the World

Leigh Raiford

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Cover of Forms of Blackness is cream with a painting of a person from the shoulders up wearing a white head wrap. The figure is made using black paint and an impasto technique.
Forms of Blackness

Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World

Cécile Bishop

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The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

Sounds Like Us

Jemma DeCristo

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Cover of Raising the Bottom features a black &amp; white photograph is at the top of the cover featuring three Black individuals in movement. One person is standing with arms out, another is in the air, and the third is on the ground with their botto
Raising the Bottom

Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Alix Chapman

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Hemispheric Blackface

Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Danielle Roper

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