Explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the first half of the 20th C.

Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales, black humori

In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their suc

Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in

In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any