Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?

How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?

What is the connection between the movement for death penalty abolition and the anti-slavery movement?

“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Ross is a writer of humanness, one who finds more interest in what we feel than theme...

Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...

Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders...

Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans and Barbudans experienced freedom in the immediate years before and decades after British emancipation in 1834...

How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power?

Grant analyses the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, and how this changed the political dynamics in many of the places where African Americans settled and built new lives...

Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...

Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...

Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters...

Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,

In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...

Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.

Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”

Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...

White and Laird explore the political behavior of African American voters in the United States...

Brown expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today....

Forret explores the career of prominent slave trader William H. Williams, whose operation was based in Washington DC...

Austin's book is not only a history of black youth in Washington D.C. in the 1930s but also a history of social science thought as illustrated in the work of scholars such as sociologists E. Franklin Frazier and William H. Jones...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...