The American Prejudice Against Color

In 1853, William G. Allen, the "Coloured Professor" of Classics at New York Central College, became engaged to Mary King, a stud...

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Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism, 1st Edition

From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism. Although historically white police...

3:10 PM

Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder

How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state? In Police State, legendary ...

8:47 AM

You're Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide

Though numerous studies have been conducted regarding perceived racial bias in newspaper reporting of violent crimes, few studies have foc...

8:30 AM

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and Afri...

8:26 AM

The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935

In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and i...

8:16 AM

Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin

Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially "free,...

8:01 AM

When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines,1945-2010

When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Secon...

9:08 AM

What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over th...

12:31 PM

Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the back...

12:26 PM

Imagining Black America

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity....

12:10 PM

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States,1777-1865

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house ...

11:59 AM

Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively ...

4:56 AM

Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or...

4:53 AM

Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative

Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Usin...

4:47 AM

British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams

Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams...

7:05 AM

Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester

Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "Sambo" prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and c...

7:28 AM

Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack

Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass...

6:14 AM

Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to the Islamic Conquest

Home to some of the most remarkable feats of engineering as well as awe-inspiring natural vistas, ancient Egypt was a land of great promi...

6:12 AM

Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of ...

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