Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates
In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the
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Race
The History of White Investment in Black Suffering
Possessing the Black body is as popular now as it has ever been. The recent college yearbook controversies depicting students in
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Hip-Hop in the Trump Era
I found out about Kanye West’s October 2018 meeting with Donald Trump through memes on social media. At first, I
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None: A New Book About Race and Geology
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies
In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have
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