Wu analyzes how interactions among people from the U.S. and several East and Southeast Asian nations inspired transnational identities and multiracial coalitions that challenged political commitments during the Vietnam War era.

The first in-depth account of an African American institution that spans the history of the American Republic.

Kutzinski shows that translating and being translated (and often mistranslated) are as vital to Hughes's own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism.

Combining groundbreaking research, powerful argument, and arresting writing, Freedom Burning offers the first complete history of anti-slavery politics and culture in Queen Victoria's Britain and her Empire.

A rich trove of nearly seven hundred quotations by Douglass that demonstrate the breadth and strength of his intellect as well as the eloquence with which he expressed his political and ethical principles.

Davis concentrates on the two issues that African Americans in the North considered most essential: black male suffrage rights and equal access to the public schools.

Recreating the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore when slaves and freedmen lived side by side.

The history of African American political engagement with Africa, from back-to-Africa movements to the anti-apartheid campaign.

By the end of World War II, many black citizens viewed service in the segregated American armed forces with distaste if not disgust. Meanwhile, domestic racism and Jim Crow, ongoing Asian struggles against European colonialism, and prewar calls for...

Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s, with case studies of Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle.