Description: This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
Review Quotes: "Ideas in Unexpected Places is a timely, cohesive, and critical volume that seeks to push, and even trouble, how historians of African American intellectual history, and historians of intellectual history more broadly, define, investigate, and document Black intellectual history. Challenging historians to reconsider the production of Black intellectual thought and activity, the methodologies historians deploy to explore these subjects, and the primary sources that form the bases of their analyses, the collection succeeds in making a well-organized and crucial contribution to current debates about the limits and violence of the archive, the privileging of certain voices and perspectives over others in historical argumentation, the contours of Black agency, the ideological and geographical origins of Black Power, the intellectual production of Black women, Black international solidarities, and documenting and disseminating Black histories in a digital age." --D'Weston Haywood, author of Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement