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...

Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...

Banks explores the rise of the African American museum and its patrons and philanthropists...

Balto argues that local police department policies and procedures left black Chicagoans “overpoliced and underprotected” far before mass incarceration began...

Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."

Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is an African, Cuban, Indigenous, American Trans performance artist, author, and playwright among many different titles...

Finkelman is a specialist on the history of slavery and the law...

Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...

O'Brassill-Kulfan focuses on the control over poor migrants’ mobility and how their movement shaped ideas of class, race, and status in the United States...

When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world...

Fire on the Water looks at the history of abolition and slave violence by looking at the representation of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late 18th and early 19th century literature...

The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...

Alves makes a powerful contribution to urban anthropology, describing the spatial contours of “Brazilian Apartheid” in Sao Paulo...

Quintana examined how enslaved African Americans built the state of South Carolina, in the literal sense of the word...

Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences...

Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...

The secession of Texas from Mexico was a dry run for the slaveholder’s republic of the Confederate States of America, argues Andrew Torget...

Twitty looks at numerous freedom suits filed in the St. Louis circuit court in order to examine the legal history of slavery and freedom...

"Rethinking Rufus" is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men...

Welch explores the history of free and enslaved black Americans use of local courts in the Cotton South...