Join M Aziz, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, and Dan Berger as they discuss Black Power Histories and methodological approaches to African American History.

M Aziz (American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington) researches and teaches Black culture, social movement history, and the practice of martial artistry. Their current book project, Built with Fists: Martial Artistry During Black Power and the Cold War, asks how martial arts contributed to Black Power organizing and shifting ideas about liberation, empire, and gender norms.

Robyn Spencer-Antoine (African American Studies and History, Wayne State University) specializes in social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. Her first book, The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Duke University Press, 2016), analyzes the organizational evolution of the Black Panther Party in Oakland

Dan Berger (School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Bothell) is an interdisciplinary historian of activism, Black Power, and the carceral state in twentieth century U.S. history. His book, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), won the 2015 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians.