By Michael Lawrence Dickinson, AAIHS — “What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But what happened in Haiti…
By Sean Gallagher, AAIHS — In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the law. Books by Jessica Millward and Martha Jones have…
A coffee table book authored by Nelson Mandela’s daughter, Dr. Pumla Makaziwe Mandela, takes a look at the family man behind the statesman with never-before-seen private photography. By Tom Page,…
September 11th Edition of Vantage Point Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Garrett Neiman, Author, Rich White Men. Topic: The Professor’s Bookshelf Ways to listen to Vantage Point…
By Herb Boyd — The activist community—Black and white, local and global—is well aware of the torment and travails of Mumia Abu-Jamal. A political prisoner for more than 40 years,…
Review by Herb Boyd — The style and novelistic pace Bill Fletcher, Jr. established in his debut book The Man Who Fell from the Sky is ratcheted up significantly in The Man Who…
In ‘Teaching White Supremacy,’ Harvard researcher Donald Yacovone analyzed 220 history textbooks By Olivia B. Waxman, Time — At a time when there’s a national debate over critical race theory and how much…
The U.S. stood at the forefront in the creation of de jure and de facto second-class citizenship for Black people, Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, Puerto Ricans and other people of color…
The tacit questions were: who is black and why? And what does being black signify? Black, it was commonly understood,… By Catherine Hall, London Review of Books — In the early 18th century,…
Three new histories of British colonialism and slavery – by Vincent Brown, Thomas Harding and Kojo Koram – reveal the empire’s corrosive effects on today’s politics. By Laleh Khalili, New…
By Abdul Alkalimat, Nonprofit Quarterly — The following is an excerpt from the Introduction and Conclusion of The History of Black Studies, by Abdul Alkalimat (2021). Reprinted with permission from Pluto…
By Eloise Barry, TIME — The South African writer Damon Galgut was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize this week for his novel The Promise, which confronts the racist history of his native country…