On the morning of February 13, 1969, members of Duke University's Afro-American Society barricaded themselves inside the Allen administration building. ...

The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous ...

In Uplift Cinema , Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like the racial uplift ...

Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American ...

In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability ...

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste , veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because ...

Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and ...

Revised and Expanded Edition Wait-what's wrong with rights ? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil ...

In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about ...

In the 1990s, many evangelical Christian organizations and church leaders began to acknowledge their long history of racism and launched efforts at becoming ...