Race and Ethnicity
No Place Like Home
In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American South by retracing the route of the original Freedom Riders of the 1960s. His road trip was a remarkable socio-cultural adventure for an outsider. He was British, ...
Africans and Seminoles
Because Seminoles held slaves in a confusing system that was markedly dissimilar to white society's, the federal government was challenged to identify which blacks in Florida were free and which were ...
A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000
What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today?
The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent ...
The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and gender politics. This gathering of eight essays by top scholars probes Morrison's ...
The Identity Question
Despite the Enlightenment's promise of utopian belonging among all citizens, blacks and Jews were excluded from the life of their host countries. In their diasporic exile both groups were marginalized ...
Prejudice Across America
The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding
In 1998 James Waller took twenty-one white college students from Washington state on a month-long journey. ...
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America
In 1915 Leo Frank, a northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. ...
Autobiography as Activism
Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that ...
A Spiral Way
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Research in the General History of Recorded Sound (2000)
The invention of the cylinder phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century ...
Cajun and Creole Music Makers
The virtual renaissance of all things Cajun and Creole has captivated enthusiasts throughout America and invigorated the culture back home. Who, just fifteen years ago, could have predicted that this ...