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

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...

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...

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...

Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...

jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...

Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...

During the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the South’s strongest NAACP branches...

Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south,  challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago...

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...

Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today...

Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire....

Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks with Tiffany Gill about the history of African American travel in the late twentieth century and its significance to Black communities across the lines of class and gender...

"Frontiers of Citizenship" is a beautifully written book that integrates quite seamlessly the history black and indigenous peoples in 19th century Brazil.

Mirabal details New York Cuban diasporic history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with keen attention to how political debates about the potential future, visibility, and belonging in Cuba played out along issues of race and gender...

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...

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...

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....