Imagined Digital Communities: Bailey Reconstitutes Harmful Digital Ecologies as Spaces of Transformation
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Featured Review
Explore select racial justice titles through long-form reviews.
Featured Reviews consider how a title exposes racist systems and inequities or proposes means of dismantling them. These important works from valuable perspectives are of use to undergraduates, faculty, and anyone interested in learning more about racism and racial inequalities.
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Reclaiming Rebellion: A Deep Dive into African American Resistance to State Violence
Hinton challenges the prevailing notion of blaming victims when riots emerge against police and state violence and instead urges readers to view these rebellions as calls to fix a broken system.
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The Right to Bear Arms, but Not for All: Anderson Uncovers the Second Amendment’s Racist Legacy
Constitutional interpretations of the Second Amendment have consistently disadvantaged African Americans, leaving them more vulnerable to violence.
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Decentering Whiteness and Uplifting Black Voices: “The 1619 Project” Reclaims American History
Based on the newspaper project, this new book reimagines the standard American history curriculum by reexploring pivotal historical events from the perspective of Black Americans.
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Colorblindness Is Identity Theft: Acknowledging Racist Histories to Create Diverse Futures
Exploring her own racial ancestry, Georgina Lawton urges readers to unpack commonly held perceptions of race to understand how these ultimately diminish non-white people's humanity.
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Recovering a Civil Rights Intellectual from Obscurity: A Vital Biography of L. D. Reddick
This absorbing portrayal of a neglected yet noteworthy African American historian-activist poignantly speaks to the past and present of the African American experience.
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Four Hundred Years of African America: An Ambitious Community History of the Black Experience
Ninety authors explore different facets of African American history as a "choir" of voices, tapping into individual legacies of resilience and resistance.
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Honoring Community without Penalizing Blackness: An Essential Primer on Prison Abolition
Mariame Kaba harnesses her expertise in abolition to challenge the US's system of mass incarceration and suggest alternative forms of justice.
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The Fallacy of Lost Status: Heather McGhee Examines Racism’s Universal Harm
In The Sum of Us, McGhee offers a compassionate study of racism's damaging effects on all of society—including white America.
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