This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. It a

In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a p

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle Whether class or race is the more important factor in