This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the boo...

Volume III spans the last millennium of Pharaonic civilization, from the tenth century B.C. to the beginning of the Christian era. With a n...

Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment. While previous scholarship on African Americans and the med...

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools f...

Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial or...

This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based on...

In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, contractor...

Volume II shows the culmination of these literary genres within the single period known as the New Kingdom (1550-1080 B.C.). With a new fo...

Originally published in 1973, Black Players was the first book to do a thorough examination of the urban pimp culture. Social anthropologis...

The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African Ame...