Severe racial inequity has characterized the incorporation of ethnic minorities' contributions
to US history and advancements (Sandoval et al., 2016). These disparities are inextricably …

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the
slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and …

Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a
resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theater, music, and intellectualism …

On a Saturday afternoon in July 1893, Marie F. Posey, an African American, sat at her
kitchen window looking at workmen drilling on a rock outcropping behind her apartment …

In the late nineteenth century hundreds of clubs formed across the United States devoted to
the reading of Shakespeare. From Pasadena, California, to the seaside town of Camden …

A prominent form of voluntary organization in the United States from the nineteenth century
through the mid-twentieth century, fraternal associations are self-selecting brotherhoods and …

How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The
essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary …

When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the
end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their …

The growth of black fraternal associations is closely intertwined with the larger history of
voluntary associations in American society. In the aftermath of the American Revolution …

The Port Royal Experiment builds on classic scholarship to present not a historical narrative
but a study of what is now called development and nation-building. The Port Royal …