Making Gullah: A New Book on the American Imagination of Low Country Blacks
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Jim Crow
Colored No More: A New Book on Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites
Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead
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On Transnational Black Feminism
At the recent OAH conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I participated in a roundtable on “Transnational Circulations of Feminism in
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Local Authority in the Future of Voting Rights
During the 1940s and 1950s, a Mississippi Circuit Clerk named Luther Cox gained notoriety for asking potential black voter registration
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