“We depart from shorthand comedic snapshots of the Sunshine State by curating methodologically thick interpretive analyses that take seriously its cultural politics, people, and popular forms.”
Read More >This week, President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday. The date commemorates the anniversary of Union army general Gordon Granger’s arrival in Texas to proclaim the end …
Read More >For Malcolm X Day, UC Press is featuring an excerpt from The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union by Stephen Tuck. Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X …
Read More >This post was written by Jessica Weiss and published on the University of Maryland website. It is reposted here with permission. Through her teaching, research and beyond, Jordana Moore Saggese is working …
Read More >This guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. In this video, scholar Samantha Sheppard offers a sneak peek at her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, …
Read More >“For the upcoming issue we have several timely reflections; on the dangers of conflating Arab and Muslim peoples, on the capitol insurrection, and on Martin Luther King’s legacy in the context of Black Lives Matter”
Read More >Prolific and prestigious sociologist Aldon Morrison explains how social justice movements succeed—from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.
Read More >Excerpted from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell The main activity of the Harlem Renaissance took place in the years immediately before and after James Baldwin’s …
Read More >By Dave Roediger, author of Coloured White: Transcending the Racial Past “Smear Campaign” originated in a pair of talks I gave in 2000, one at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and …
Read More >“Movement that centers on providing racial justice for Black people must always be unapologetically Black. In our work, we articulate that in an environment that is highly racialized, we must realize the limits of white support, specifically if such approval is conditional on factors such as racial resentment.”
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