Dr. Kelly Ryan explores social violence and civil rights in new book on Early America
August 29, 2019
—Steven Krolak
Kelly A. Ryan explores the many ways in which men used violence to enforce their dominance in American slavery in her new book.
Category: African American Studies
The Links between Slavery, Policing, and Racism
July 30, 2019
—Jennifer E. Cobbina There is a long and mainly unresolved history of government using violence to establish and maintain relations of racial domination and subordination. However, as a nation, we… READ MORE
‘Unskilled’ immigrants help to ease the pain of dying American
July 3, 2019
—Cati Coe
Discover the rise of unskilled immigrant care workers helping Americans die peacefully in their homes instead of in nursing homes.
Investigating Reproductive Injustice
July 1, 2019
Black women are more likely to give birth prematurely than any other group of women in the US—Dána-Ain Davis explores this reproductive injustice shrouded in racism
Fat Phobia Affects Everyone
May 15, 2019
—Sabrina Strings
Today, there is no community in America that can claim to be untouched by the twin regulatory forces of thin privilege and fat stigma.
Books just in time for Kwanzaa
December 26, 2018
Celebrate Kwanzaa with some amazing African and African American Studies books from NYU Press and WITS University Press. Check out some we cherry-picked below which we hope help you celebrate… READ MORE
Brown Jouissance and Simone Leigh’s Gathering of Jugs
October 15, 2018
—Amber Jamilla Musser
On Simone Leigh’s exhibit at Luhring Augustine and brown jouissance that brings together violence and possibility in the same frame in order to reclaim and remake selfhood.
Don’t Forget About Serena
October 12, 2018
—Ralina L. Joseph
A black woman icon such as Serena Williams has to bear the disproportionate burden of not only being the target of racist attacks, but also of being above responding to them, maintaining a pose of “strategic ambiguity.”