“A timely focus on the importance of black workers in the making of America.” Leslie M. Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery “Profound, inspiring, and sobering.” Robin D. G. Kelley, …
Read More >This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the American Musicological Society conference from November 1–4 in San Antonio. By Hilde Roos, author of The ‘La Traviata’ Affair: Opera in the …
Read More >Helmut K. Anheier is Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Max Weber Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany. He also has academic appointments at the London …
Read More >“I do not know how things will be by the time you read it, but this book goes to press at a grim moment.” —Adam Hochschild Lessons From a Dark Time and …
Read More >Khaled Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear is committed to sharing his passion, dedication, and energy in supporting and enriching communities. He says: I spent much of …
Read More >By Judith Byfield, co-editor of Global Africa: Into the Twenty-First Century A few weeks ago, we were subjected to yet another infamous statement by Donald Trump. His statements—Nigerians live in huts; all Haitians …
Read More >This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the largest single day protest in US history—the Women’s March—when on January 21, 2017, 4.2 million people marched across the US in more than 600 US …
Read More >This post is published during the American Historical Association conference in Washington, D.C. (Jan. 4-7). Now more than ever, discussions of race, ethnicity, and nationalism must take a global perspective. …
Read More >This guest post is published during the African Studies Association conference in Chicago, occurring November 16 – 18, and prior to the American Anthropological Association conference in Washington, D.C., occurring November 28 …
Read More >by Dillon Mahoney, author of The Art of Connection: Risk, Mobility, and the Crafting of Transparency in Coastal Kenya What do African masks and cell phones have in common? They sit on …
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