In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and
A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs. In the decades follow
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over sla
The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigati
Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promo