This essay makes a decisive turn to the history and historiography of African American intellectual history, a field of study long relegated to the margins of the general field of US intellectual history. Its principal intention is to reflect on the origins, growth, and recent institutionalization of African American intellectual history while showing the relationship between those developments and broader trends within the US and, at times, European historical profession. This framework is meant as a corrective. African American intellectual history is a distinctive field with its own origins, objectives, and methods. Yet it also demands centering within US and global intellectual history. Marginalized for too long, African American intellectual history has long proposed and advanced innovative ways of doing and conceptualizing intellectual history. I suggest that this burgeoning field has important, generalizable lessons about the practice and possibilities of intellectual history writ large.

中文翻译：

---

非裔美国人思想史的兴起

这篇文章对非裔美国人思想史的历史和史学做出了决定性的转变，这一研究领域长期以来一直处于美国思想史一般领域的边缘。其主要目的是反思非裔美国人思想史的起源、发展和近期制度化，同时展示这些发展与美国乃至欧洲历史界更广泛趋势之间的关系。该框架旨在纠正。非裔美国人的思想史是一个独特的领域，有自己的起源、目标和方法。然而，它也要求以美国和全球思想史为中心。被边缘化太久，长期以来，非裔美国人的思想史一直在提出和推进思想史的创新方法和概念化。我认为这个新兴领域对于思想史的实践和可能性有着重要的、可概括的教训。