"In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes ... and how the term "community" is sometime…
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"In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the "long" nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent…
Biographical note: Daniel Matlin is Lecturer in the History of the United States of America since 1865 at King's College London. Main description: In July 1964 when a Harlem riot shifted attention to the crisis in northern cities, African American intellectuals were thrust into…
"Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will surely prove a seminal study, Bronner…
"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fra…
"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"...peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values...in …
"It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams ... and the public loved it. …
"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light…
"Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices ... slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills ... perpetrated against Black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in th…
"Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools ope…
