Thinking Race, Fighting Racism: African American Intellectual, Political, and Social Antiracist Mobilizations in the United States and Abroad (late 18th-early 21st century) – TACTICS

Our project proposes a renewed history of the strategies set up by African Americans and their allies to fight racial injustice since the late 18th century. Within a long-term framework, the interdisciplinary team will undertake historical research focused on African American antiracist mobilizations. The project will contribute to the effort among historians to rethink the long and transnational history of African Americans’ fight for racial justice and to clarify the stakes of current public debates about systemic racism in the United States and abroad. The project postulates that antiracist theories and movements influenced each other and should therefore be studied together, at the intersection of intellectual, political, and social history. It also postulates that the Black Power movement was a pivotal and foundational moment for contemporary theories and strategies opposing racial injustice, now considered as the outcome of sociological rather than simply psychological phenomena.