On the Spiritual Geography of Black Working-Class Washington
In 1946, University of Chicago-trained anthropologist and religionist James Sydney Slotkin conducted a course in the anthropology and sociology department
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Labor
Black Radicalism, Repression, and the “Horne Biographical Method”
This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Gerald Horne’s first biography on W.E.B.
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Interrogating the Master Narrative of “My Family’s Slave”
Alex Tizon’s widely acclaimed article in The Atlantic about his family’s horrific abuse and exploitation of a domestic worker has
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Masterless Men: A New Book on Poor Whites and Slavery
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation
Only a few days after Tax Day, many Americans still have Uncle Sam on their minds. Though the vast majority
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