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Race/Ethnicity

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?

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

My Cocaine Museum, by Michael Taussig (2004)

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

Asian American Immigration: Read More

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)

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

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

The Emancipation Proclamation and its Aftermath

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

Recent Posts

  • Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill
  • IHS Workshop: “Whose Decolonization? The Collection of Andean Ancestors and the Silences of American History” by Christopher Heaney, Pennsylvania State University
  • 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
  • Breaking ChatGPT: Good Teaching Still Beats the Best AI
  • Remembering Rio Speedway
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