Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today
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Black Internationalism
Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery
In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American
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Reimagining Liberation: A New Book about Black Women who Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’
This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.
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Cedric J. Robinson: A New Book on Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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