Bolden offers a history of funk artists such as George Clinton who developed a new aesthetic style through the Black Arts Era of the 1960s and 1970s....

Hampton offers a fascinating and meticulous study of Bob Dylan's songwriting craft...

Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Eldridge Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of White America...

Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....

Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary career...

An interview with Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow

Spady traces the complex path by which woodlands became a multi-ethnic big-city neighborhood...

Storhoff explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama...

Weigel and Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels,,,

“My aim is to explain how and why a certain notion of the self has come to dominate the culture of the West,..."

Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...

Throughout American history, views on the proper relationship between the state and religion have been deeply divided...

Brenes argues that after the beginning of the Cold War, defense spending became an important part of the federal social safety net...

When we think of early American political thought, we tend to overlook the powerful influence of the natural environment on the formation of settlement in both theory and practice...

Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...

Mulder and Marti offer a compelling look at the rise and fall of one of the most popular and influential Christian evangelists of the twentieth century,..

Herbert examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades...

By 1935 William Faulkner was well established as an author of critically praised novels, yet the low volume of his sales forced him to seek work in Hollywood....

Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere...

Vats offers an intricate and meticulously researched text on intellectual property history, race, and citizenship from the 1790s to the present...

When did Black Americans move from stalwart party of Lincoln Republicans to dedicated New Deal Democrats?

Adjmi’s memoir also traces his evolving relationship with his family and his community, from whom he desires to escape even as he finds himself drawn continually back to them...

Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...

Boyarin explores the yeshiva's relationship with the neighborhood, the city, and Jewish and American culture more broadly, and brings vividly to life its routines, rituals, and rhythms...