The relationship between two peoples of color, their similar experiences with slavery, their struggles for political power, and their parallel race consciousnes

Readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century are probably more racially self-aware than any other generation has been. Like the relationship between gen

Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the time, Penny M. Von Eschen offers a vivid portrayal of the Afr

Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social D

This timely book takes a critical look at the teaching of English, showing how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools ac