This book is a sober challenge to those who argue that race is of declining significance in the United States today.

The book's initial public reception was poor. It was republished in 1927, with some minor wording changes, by Alfred A. Knopf, an influential firm that published many Harlem Renaissance writers, and Johnson was credited as the author.

An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery.

In this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries.

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985.

This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s.

"In this book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how dark-skinned peoples, especially black Africans, were portrayed in the Bible and by those who interpreted the Bible - Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in post-colonial African philosophy and critical race theory

Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win?