Book Review - AAIHS

Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism

J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,

Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a