This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...

Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...

Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the politics and potential of theatre production and reception to ask how theatre ‘makes, unmakes and remakes’ race...

While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...

Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....

The Mark of Criminality positions the work of key gangsta rap artists--Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur--as well as the controversies their work produced...

Proenza-Coles reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy...

The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy...

A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...

In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship...

In Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael worked with a group of white teachers to inquire about race and schooling...

J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...

Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States...

The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...

Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resources--but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or elected officials who share their concerns....

In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...

Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...

Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...

Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...

In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...

Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...

Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...