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The "peculiar institution" upon which the US nation was founded is still rich for examination.Perhaps this is why it is a subject to which 21st centur…
Historian Stephen Hall passionately engages in the history of nineteenth-century African American intellectual life in his first monograph, A Faithful…
Digging up our roots seems to be the thing these days. There are a host of genealogy resources available for anyone who cares to (re)discover their fa…
"What are you?" The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting…
What does it mean to be black? In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances (Wayne State University Press, 2011) editor Vershawn Ashan…