Jackson demonstrates that cultural appropriation (especially of Black culture by white artists) is prevalent and deeply rooted in America’s history of inequality...

On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion...

Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.

In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African American woman...

Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways in which sound recording, radio, and film converge in the late 1920s...

What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?

McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the historical journey of Lucile and her family from slavery in northern Virginia to life in the American West...

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?

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

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...

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.

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

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...