Stanford Humanities Center
Sitting in the lobby of the Philadelphia Marriott at the 2023 annual convention of the American Historical Association, one would never know the guild had been rocked by a controversy that forced the AHA to temporarily suspend its Twitter account as AHA President James H. Sweet’s essay “Is History...
What we offer here is a still preliminary and provisional sketch of some ways of conceptualizing the field beyond the parameters of hyperinclusivity and hypercanonicity.
Why not invest in an Afro-pessimistic critique that kept all options for reparative intellectual justice — including the demolition of the discipline itself — on the table?
