Black Women’s Fugitivity in Colonial America
Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of
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Digital Du Bois
The publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America gives new meaning to Du Bois’s famous sentence from
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Presumed Criminal: A New Book on Black Youth and the Justice System in New York
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy
Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an
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Black Madness: A New Book About Blackness and Disability
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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