Ellison tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity in a country dead-set on not seeing him...

Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved...

Polgar tells the story of a racially inclusive abolition movement which followed in the wake of the American Revolution...

Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent transitions from graduate school into the professorate...

Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among them is James Mitchell Ashley...

Griffen Spears discusses the decades long struggle for environmental and civil rights justice in Anniston, Alabama...

Hodges emphasizes the history of slavery, religion, the rise of the Black middle class, and the quest for social equality through the Jim Crow era...

"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

How does the world of book reviews work?

How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape of New York City?

Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...

Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...

Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...

Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..

brown defines pleasure activism as “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy”...

Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...

Roberts talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era...

Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...

In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...

Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...

Boyles provides vivid ethnographic work and in-depth interviews from the Ferguson protests...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...