Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals
In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a
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Race
Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Lives Matter, Black Power, and the Role of White Allies
The Movement for Black Lives has revived many familiar debates, one of which revolves around the question of the role
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The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change
More than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should
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Race and the Remaking of Trans History: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. Part I A few weeks ago, on Sunday,
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