New perspectives on the Black intellectual tradition / edited by Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer.

Includes index.

"In March 2016 we organized the inaugural conference of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), a scholarly organization founded in 2014 to foster dialogue about researching, writing, and teaching black thought and culture."

Includes article: Weinfeld, David (2018). Isolated believer : Alain Locke, Baha'i secularist. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition. Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron and Ashely Farmer. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 83-98

Introduction: The contours of Black intellectual history / Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer -- Black internationalism. Introduction / Michael O. West -- "Every wide-awake Negro teacher of French should know" : the pedagogies of Black internationalism in the early twentieth century / Celeste Day Moore -- Afro-Cuban intellectuals and the new Negro renaissance : Bernardo Ruiz Suarez's The color question in the two Americas / Reena N. Goldthree -- "To start something to help these people" : African American women and the occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 / Brandon R. Byrd -- Religion and spirituality. Introduction / Judith Weisenfeld -- Isolated believer : Alain Locke, Baha'i secularist / David Weinfeld -- The new Negro renaissance and African American secularism / Christopher Cameron -- "I had a praying grandmother" : religion, prophetic witness, and Black women's herstories / LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant -- Racial politics and struggles for social justice. Introduction / Pero Gaglo Dagbovie -- Historical ventriloquy : Black thought and sexual politics in the interracial marriage of Frederick Douglass / Guy Emerson Mount -- Reigning assimilationists and defiant Black power : the struggle to define and regulate racist ideas / Ibram X. Kendi -- Becoming African women : women's cultural nationalist theorizing in the U.S organization and the Committee for Unified Newark / Ashley D. Farmer -- Black radicalism. introduction / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Runaways, rescuers, and the politics of breaking the law / Christopher Bonner -- Conspiracies, seditions, rebellions : concepts and categories in the study of slave resistance / Gregory Childs -- African American expats, Guyana, and the Pan-African ideal in the 1970s / Russell Rickford.