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Review of Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People’s Army, by Tanja Petrović (2024)

Review of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, by Brittany Friedman (2025).

Review of Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940 by Jason Oliver Chang (2017)

Review of Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico, by Jaclyn Ann Sumner (2024)

Cover American While Black African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship

Review of American while Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship (2019) by Niambi Michele Carter

Review of Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s, (2022) by Luca Falciola

Review of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016), by Ibram X. Kendi

Review of The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC, by Cleveland Sellers (with Robert Terrell), 1990

Converting “Latinos” during Salem’s Witch Trials: A Review of Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (2022) by Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Reimagining Reconstruction: Where Do We Go from Here?

Roundtable Review of Jeremi Suri’s Civil War by Other Means

Book cover of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Review of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (2014)

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (2006)

The Intra-American Slave Trade Database: A Review and Interview with Gregory O’Malley and Alex Borucki

Film Review: The Harder They Fall, Directed by Jeymes Samuel

Digital Archive Review: Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection

Book cover of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Paulina L. Alberto

Review of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (2011)

A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, translated by Kristin M. McGuire (2019)

The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India by Mark Condos (2017)

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (2020)

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World By Jessica Marie Johnson (2020)

Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani (2020)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza (2019)

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman (2018)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

Review of The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (2017), by Cyrus Schayegh

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (2014)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by John M. Monteiro (2018)

African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)

The Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas

When Answers are not Enough: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)

City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Andrew M. Busch (2017)

Play Review – Monroe by Lisa B. Thompson (2018)

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (2014)

Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock (2010)

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2011)

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)

Historical Perspectives on Marshall (dir: Reginal Hudlin, 2017)

Book cover of Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser (2017)

Victoria & Abdul: Simulacra & Simulation

Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, by Nancy P. Appelbaum (2016)

Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse (2013)

The Works of Steven Hahn

Before Hamilton

Historical Perspectives on The Birth of a Nation (2016)

Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade, By Linda B. Hall (2013)

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Soviet Central Asia, By Douglas Northrup (2003)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Playing Indian, by Philip Deloria (1999)

The Web of Empire, By Alison Games (2008)

Tejanos through Time

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

My Cocaine Museum, by Michael Taussig (2004)

Magical Realism on Drugs: Colombian History in Netflix’s Narcos

The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast, by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. (2014)

Asian American Immigration: Read More

Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)

The Disappearing Mestizo, by Joanne Rappaport (2014)

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil’s Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves, by Glenn Cheney (2014)

Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit, by Kristen Block (2012)

Outlaws of the Atlantic, by Marcus Rediker (2014)

Germans into Nazis, by Peter Fritzsche (1998)

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

iTunes Remembers Black History: The New Archive (No. 5)

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

History in Motion: The New Archive (No. 4)

Visualizing Emancipation(s): Mapping The End of Slavery in America

“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution”

Handbook of African American Texas

42 (2013)

Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas by Amilcar Shabazz

The Sapphires (2012)

The Emancipation Proclamation and its Aftermath

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)

L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present by Josh Sides (2003)

A Historian Views Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012)

Book cover of When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Ostuka (2003) & The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Ostuka (2012)

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí by Jane Mangan (2005)

Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel (1997)

Movie poster of the movie The Descendants

The Invisible History of Hawaii in Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants”

The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)

Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa by Allen Wells (2009)

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen (2008)

Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960 by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (2000)

African American History Online

Book cover of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith

Before Red Tails: Black Servicemen in World War I

From Baseball to Politics

Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America edited by Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara (2009)

Movie poster of the movie J. Edgar

J. Edgar (2011)

Movie poster of the movie When the Mountains Tremble: The Astonishing Story of Rigoberta Menchú, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Two documentaries on Guatemala’s violent civil war

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979)

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924)

Movie poster of the movie Amigo

Film Review – Amigo (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Sankofa, A Haile Gerima Film

Sankofa (1993)

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1999)

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (2007)

Life and Nothing But (1989)

The Help

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Abridged Edition by Raymond Arsenault (2011)

Great Books on African American Beauty Culture

Book cover of Aids & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer

AIDS & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer (1992)

Everyday Crimes: The Shop on Main Street (1965)

Book cover of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines

African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines (2007)

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

Thurgood (2011)

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction by Michele Mitchell (2004)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2003)

Book cover of The Other Side of Silence: Voices From the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia

Review of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia (2000) by Urvashi Butalia

Book cover of Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II by Emilio Zamora

“Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas; Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II” by Emilio Zamora (2009)

Great Books on Slavery, Abolition, and Reconstruction

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