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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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

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...

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...