Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...

Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...

Giovannetti-Torres focuses on the workers and their interactions with British colonial officials, American landowners and sugar producers, and local and national-level members of the Cuban government...

This groundbreaking study of the post-surrender occupation makes clear that its purpose was to crush slavery and to create meaningful civil and political rights for freed people in the face of rebels’ bold resistance...

Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...

Musselwhite challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities...

Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...

For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...

"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...

Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...

Reese examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food...

Leal narrates the unknown history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia...

In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius...

Heerman examines how slavery and emancipation developed in the Illinois Country from the 18th Century through the 19th Century...

The history of black food traditions can be most accurately conceptualized as a web of ongoing conversations, debates, and reinventions...

Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...

Colins demonstrates that many more constitutional provisions and practices played a crucial role in the bloody conflict that claimed the lives of over 750,000 Americans...

"Dear Current Occupant" is also a letter to Knight’s younger selves, to the girl and eventually young woman who lived in these places and who struggled to discover who she was and who she could be...

If you really want to understand Jim Crow—what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it—you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg,..

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...

Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century...

Levin investigates the claims that numerous African Americans willingly fought for the Confederacy....

Doddington demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South...

In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,

Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States...