Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..

Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...

"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...

Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...

Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...

Cox discusses what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South...

Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...

"Stolen" tells the true story of how five young Black boys were kidnapped from Philadelphia in 1825...

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...

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

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