Eating, Laid Bare
April 30, 2012
by Kyla Tompkins So, people have been sending me the link to the premier article on the ‘racist cake’ spectacle, asking me what I think of the most recent eruption of a trope… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
Trayvon Martin killing: The legacy of extralegal racial violence continues on
March 22, 2012
—Kidada E. Williams Many Americans cannot understand why so many African Americans and their allies have rallied around the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old killed by a white Hispanic… READ MORE
Rethinking Black History Month
February 23, 2012
—Kidada E. Williams, author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I It happens every term. An enthusiastic African American… READ MORE
National Era digitally re-releasing Uncle Tom’s Cabin
August 18, 2011
160 years ago, the first chapter of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s infamous anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in the National Era. In honor of the novel, which some say… READ MORE
Black in Latin America, in Booklist
June 8, 2011
Booklist hands out the first review for Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Black in Latin America, the companion book to the television series. The book will be available on July 30th…. READ MORE
Early American Manliness: A Question of Power, Not Sex
January 26, 2011
Thomas A. Foster teaches history at DePaul University, Chicago. He is editor of New Men: Manliness in Early America and a writer for the History News Service. Four young men… READ MORE
More Measuring of America – Panel Discussion on Wednesday!
November 16, 2010
There’s lots going on to celebrate the publication of The Measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience by Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps. Kristin Lewis was on the Brian… READ MORE
Some Free Faces of America
October 15, 2010
This week, three excerpts have one up online from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts. Malcolm Gladwell, at The Root. This means… READ MORE