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...

Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...

Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...

Dew treats his readers to a riveting and often counterintuitive account of the interaction of law, race, and citizenship in the discourses of the Moorish Science Temple and other movements inspired by Noble Drew Ali...

Nevius tells the interrelated histories of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina...

Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...

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...

How does the world of book reviews work?

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

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?

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...

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

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