Nate Marshall examines the way that pop culture influences Black vernacular, the role of storytelling, family, and place...

Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years...

Junior sought to understand how Hagar become Black and what purposes that served...

Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....

In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet...

How do we move police forces from a warrior culture to connecting better with communities they serve?

White beautifully brings to life the lives and experiences of a number of enslaved women and men whose individual stories have heretofore never been told..,

Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...

Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...

In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...

When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.

Kettler charts the impact that smell had on the making of race and justifications for enslavement in the Atlantic world....

Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...

Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...

"The Osiris Papers" Is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing...

Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.

The book tracks how anti-Blackness in America has long had everything to do with imperialism, working as much by removal as by predation...

By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...

Gershenhorn's award-winning study recovers the life and activism of Louis Austin and the influence of his newspaper, the Carolina Times...

Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...

Gergel connects the stories of Isaac Woodard, Harry Truman, and J. Waties Waring to illustrate how one incident fits into the larger history of civil rights...

Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...

Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”

Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....

Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...