Keisha N. Blain
Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests and specializations in African American history, the modern African diaspora, and women’s and gender studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is currently a 2020-2021 fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. She also serves as an editor for the Washington Post’s ‘Made by History’ section. Blain has published extensively on race, gender, and politics in both national and global perspectives.
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Books by Keisha N. Blain
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
by Keisha N. Blain
✩ Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for biography
✩ Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for an outstanding biography or autobiography
The historian and best-selling author Keisha N. Blain examines the life and work of the Black activist Fannie Lou Hamer, positioning her as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks.
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
edited by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams and Keisha N. Blain
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
edited by Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron and Ashley Farmer
To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism
edited by Keisha N. Blain and Tiffany Gill
“In Set the World on Fire, I center working poor Black women and talk about the ways that these marginalized women led a vibrant political movement that connected activists in the United States with activists in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and even in Asia. These women lacked the means to travel, but found ways to make an impact around the world.” Read more...
The best books on African American Women’s History
Keisha N. Blain, Historian
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (editors)
Four Hundred Souls is about African American history, from 1619—when the White Lion, the first African slave ship, arrived in Virginia—to the present, but it's also a really interesting book for anyone fed up with the standard historical narratives we learn in school. The book is a series of essays by historians and journalists, activists and poets. Altogether, it brings together 90 Black voices in 80 chronological chapters.
We spoke to Keisha N Blain, co-editor of the book, about Black women's history.
Interviews with Keisha N. Blain
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Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by Tera Hunter -
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
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Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
by Erik McDuffie -
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
by Keisha N. Blain
The best books on African American Women’s History, recommended by Keisha N. Blain
The best books on African American Women’s History, recommended by Keisha N. Blain
Black women’s stories are often untold, but their critical role in American society and politics is finally being broadly acknowledged. Black activists today are building upon the legacy of African American women who have been using every open avenue to seek social justice for centuries. And “no matter how many obstacles are erected to impede them,” says award-winning historian Keisha N. Blain, Black women “are unstoppable.”
Interviews where books by Keisha N. Blain were recommended
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (editors) -
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
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The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell -
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Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White
by Kitt Shapiro (with Patricia Weiss Levy) -
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The Night Gate
by Peter May
The Best Audiobooks of 2021, recommended by Robin Whitten
The Best Audiobooks of 2021, recommended by Robin Whitten
In 2021, as in previous years, AudioFile magazine picks out the very best audiobooks of the year, books that make great listening and where outstanding narration brings additional pleasure over and above reading the book in print with your eyes. Here, AudioFile editor and founder Robin Whitten picks out the best audiobooks of 2021 for us—out of the 2,300 books that she and her team listened to and reviewed.
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1
Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -
2
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by Tera Hunter -
3
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
by Barbara Ransby -
4
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
by Erik McDuffie -
5
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
by Keisha N. Blain
The best books on African American Women’s History, recommended by Keisha N. Blain
The best books on African American Women’s History, recommended by Keisha N. Blain
Black women’s stories are often untold, but their critical role in American society and politics is finally being broadly acknowledged. Black activists today are building upon the legacy of African American women who have been using every open avenue to seek social justice for centuries. And “no matter how many obstacles are erected to impede them,” says award-winning historian Keisha N. Blain, Black women “are unstoppable.”
