slavery
No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. Th…
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slavery
Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans strug…
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War
Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, 4th Edition
The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentie…
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Sudan
Sudan and South Sudan: From One to Two
The Republic of Sudan gained its independence from Britain on the 1st of January 1956 an event which brought an end to decades of colonial rule by…
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racism
Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, andSocial Norms
Saving the Neighborhood tells the charged, still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, and offers …
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Sexual Warfare
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
Rape has never had a universally accepted definition, and the uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that …
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racism
Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders
Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justic…
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racism
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered Species. To many in the age of Obama, America had succ…
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War
African American Connecticut Explored
The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from…
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slavery
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most fa…
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racism
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in theJim Crow South
In this gripping saga of race and retribution, Alex Heard (editorial director of Outside magazine) tells a moving and unforgettable story of the de…
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racism
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black …
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War
Segregated Skies: All-Black Combat Squadrons of WW II
Sandler chronicles the pioneering efforts of the all-black 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Medium Bomber Group during WW II, emphasizing how pai…
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War
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War forIndependence
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua…
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racism
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida
Florida often seems not quite southern - yet it suffered more lynching than any of its Deep South neighbors when examined in proportion to the num…
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Theatre
White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed forladies & gentlemen of colour: William Brown's African & American theater
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It cater…
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racism
Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898
A major 19th-century reformer and intellectual, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) was the first black American to receive a degree from Cambridge Univ…
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racism
Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry WhiteMale
In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son , activist Tim Wise examines the way in which insti…
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racism
Malcolm X. Rights Activist and Nation of Islam Leader
More than a string of fact and dates, the Essential Lives series reveals the influences that shaped each individual and how, in turn, each individ…
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Religion
Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives onMalcolm and Martin
Professors Baldwin and Al-Hadid, at Vanderbilt and Tennessee State Universities respectively, persuasively argue that El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (bet…
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