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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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