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...

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...

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

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?

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...

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...

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

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...