Through an analysis of cemeteries throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from... Læs mere
As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968–91) and whose family... Læs mere
At Treasure Island, a humanly made island in the San Francisco Bay, a performance troupe dressed in hazmat suits articulate gestures that resemble toxic remediation.
Presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century.
Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment.
African American women radical activists Ethel Azalea Johnson of Negroes with Guns, Audrey Proctor... Læs mere
With The Sentimental State, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century “culture of sentiment” to generate political action in the Progressive Era.
Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and... Læs mere
Green City Rising is an ethnographic account of collective organizing for environmental justice in an era of growing concern about... Læs mere
Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Matt Tullis uses the material he... Læs mere
A "Mason & Dixon" Companion offers navigation line by line, unpacking Pynchon’s puns, his many references, and his pet themes. Brett Biebel provides a contextual map,... Læs mere
Offers a powerful counter-narrative in American history, a tale of how enslaved men and women found... Læs mere