Discrimination and Race Relations
Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland
Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout’s father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands E ...
The Real Ambassadors
Winner of the 2023 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award
Recipient of a 2023 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound ...
Black Man in the Netherlands
Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist by vocation, he is a keen observer by honed habit. In his new book, he wields both personal and anthropological ...
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
Co-winner of the 2025 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Named a 2022 finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual ...
Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana
Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805–1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has l ...
Instruments of Empire
WINNER OF THE BEST BOOK AWARD PUBLISHED IN 2021 BY THE FILIPINO STUDIES SECTION IN THE ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States extended its empire ...
Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art
Painters Robert Duncanson (ca. 1821–1872) and Edward Bannister (1828–1901) and sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844–1907) each became accomplished African American artists. But as emerging art makers of co ...
Projections of Passing
A key concern in postwar America was “who's passing for whom?” Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling fro ...
Tearing Down the Lost Cause
In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans’s complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre– and pos ...
Black Boys Burning
On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, ...