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...

Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...

Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...

Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers...

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...

In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens?

Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...

Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...

Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?

Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

"Force and Freedom" explores why for many Black abolitionists, slavery could only be obliterated through violent means.

Professor Fede’s account traces the variations in restrictions on slave owners and third parties’ treatment upon the murder of a slave.

By highlighting the activism of local Black women and Black teachers, Todd-Breland uncovers hidden histories of how Black women have been at the forefront of this fight from the 1960s to the present...

Jones weaves together the legal and constitutional dimensions of citizenship...

Though overshadowed today by more celebrated figures, Walter Francis White was one of the most prominent campaigners for civil rights in mid-20th-century America...

The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...

In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.

In this bold and deeply interdisciplinary work, Brown demonstrates the centrality of race to modern architectural design...

Bianca Williams offers her readers a different starting point by asking: What about Black women’s experiences of happiness, pleasure, leisure, desire...

This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...