Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...

Maxwell shows exactly how and why progressives can lean into identity politics, empowering marginalized groups, and uniting under a common vision that will benefit us all...

What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?

Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas?

Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...

Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...

Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...

Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...

Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....

Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...

Gosin reveals how differing notions of “worthy citizenship” encouraged interethnic conflict...

The authors draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project....

Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...

The stories in "Slavery’s Descendants" deal with harrowing topics—rape, lynching, cruelty, shame—but they also describe acts of generosity,..

Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...

"Black Political Thought" is nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “never ending issue” of the unequal positioning of black Americans...

By 2024, global sales of skin lighteners are projected to reach more than $30 billion...

Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States...

Where do good ideas come from?

Hilary Moore and James Tracy recounts the stories of fearless organizers and activists who created an anti-racist social movement that fought against the normalization of white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s...

Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human...

Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...

Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?