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...

As a black and queer-identifying man, McCrary examines these identities through keen exploration of gender, sexuality, race, class, geography, and more...

The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...

Writing a synthesis on the history American Slavery is quite a job. Calvin Schermerhorn, though, has done a wonderful job of it.

Scholarly interest in the institution of American slavery is enjoying a kind of resurgence...

Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.

The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...

Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...

Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century...

Dr. Maurice J. Hobson’s new book delves into the tremendously rich history of Atlanta...

When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined...

New York City might have been the epicenter of the twentieth century American art scene, but Los Angeles was no slouch either...

This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production.

Segregation by Design draws on a century of data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments design policies that create race and class segregation...

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...

Most people will know that Memphis, Tennessee is where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968...

Criminal justice, policing, and mass incarceration have gained significant political attention recently, and the problems of these systems have drawn increasingly frequent calls for reform from the right and left....

In his new book Music Wars: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960 (Lexington Books, 2018)...

Today we have a certain idea of "race"; it's socially constructed, conventional, and not really biological-grounded in any sense.