Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,

Petty discusses the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience...

Thomas dives into the question of, why magical stories are written for some people and not for others...

Cameron offers a precise and nuanced history of African American secularism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century...

Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?

Merritt discusses the intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the pre-Civil War South....

Byrd examines the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th Century...

LeFlouria discusses the lives, labors, and legacies of incarcerated black women and the convict lease system in the early 20th century South...

Davis combines the personal with the national in telling the story of allotment in Indian Territory/Oklahoma...

We know from this book that anger is animating politics, but the ways that anger is expressed and translated into political participation, varies greatly by race, gender, and age...

Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries...

Hild and Merritt discuss the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

Earl Campbell was a force in American football...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War.

Alou started playing organized baseball late in life (early teens), endured poverty and hardship in his native Dominican Republic, and then helped to break down barriers of language and perception throughout his long career on the field and in the dugout...

Scofield argues that rodeo performance has also long-been a means of asserting “Western-ness” for people excluded from narratives about the region...

What are the true sources of inequality?

The word “ghetto” has taken on different meanings since its coinage in the 16th century...

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination...

Wheat argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean...

Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...