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...

In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications are available from art and speculative fiction of the African disapora?

Lordi takes on the challenge of explaining “soul,” through a book that zooms in and out between sweeping ideas about suffering and resilience in Black culture and fine-grained, close readings of individual performances by soul musicians...

Cole sheds light on the important place of college presidents in the struggle for racial parity.,,

Hoffman explores the ways that race and racism have shaped the American musical from Show Boat to Hamilton....

Hill tells the story of this crime, placing it in the context of both the African American experience and the practice of white supremacy...

Viator describes how rap leapt across the continent from its New York roots in the mid-1980s and took hold in Los Angeles..

Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...

The authors offer an engaging and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary black popular culture and how to think about this broad and diverse landscape, especially in relation to power, capitalism, gender identity, and presidential politics...

Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities...

Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”

One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...

Finley examines the history of American slavery and capitalism by foregrounding women’s labor in the Antebellum slave trade...

Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats—a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.

Walker brings together the political science and criminal justice disciplines in exploring how individuals are mobilized to engage in political participation by their connection to the criminal justice system in the United States...