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....

Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...

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....

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

Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...

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

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?

The FBI has made possible a reassembling of the history of Malcolm X that goes beyond any previous research. From the opening of his file in March of 1953 to his assassination in 1965, the story of Malcolm X’s political life is a gripping one....

Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”?

In this rhetorical history, Johnson contextualizes and analyzes some of Turner’s key speeches and writings delivered between 1896 and 1915 amid the rise of Jim Crow segregation and the first Great Migration...

Ambar offers the first in-depth analysis of this important speech, illuminating its context and consequences.

Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....

Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape in the U.S. context and how writers of color intervened in the “mainstream” writing...

What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over?

Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world...

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings...

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom...

Hunter offers the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century....

Mitchell offers a complex, interdisciplinary, and important analysis focusing on black women as the lens to explore the intersection of racism and sexism and the strategies that black women have used to persevere and succeed...

O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated to one of the most notorious Confederate generals, Nathan Bedford Forrest...

While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as “Chocolate City,” it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this shift better than the H Street corridor.

Mariner offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through the inner workings of a private adoption agency in Chicago, IL...