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...

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...

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

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...

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...