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 powerfully captures the remarkable impact of the African American Intellectual History Society in shaping--and significantly expanding--the field of Black intellectual history. The volume brings together an array of talented scholars who offer brilliant insights that will forever change how we write about Black thought, history, and culture." --Keisha N. Blain, author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
"This is a broadly conceived project that is expansive and forward-looking while attendant to a tradition of scholarship and epistemology emanating from the African diaspora. Familiar subjects of history are given new light, new treatment . . . a welcome contribution to the field of intellectual history." --Christopher M. Tinson, author of Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s