By Bettye Collier-Thomas (NHC Fellow, 2001–02; 2014–15) “The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the … Continued
By Aline Helg (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) After Brazil and the United States, Colombia has the third-largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere. Yet the country is commonly viewed as a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos (peoples of mixed Spanish and indigenous Indian ancestry). Aline Helg examines the historical roots of Colombia's treatment and neglect … Continued
By Thomas Cripps (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. Making Movies Black shows how movies anticipated and helped form America's changing … Continued
Edited by Jeffrey C. Stewart (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) and Alain LeRoy Locke Race Contacts and Interracial Relations comprises five lectures that Alain Locke, Howard University professor of philosophy and critic of the Harlem Renaissance, delivered in 1916 at Howard University. Locke examines race and racism in twentieth-century social relations and provides a means of analyzing … Continued
By J. Kameron Carter (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories … Continued
By John L. Jackson, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) The Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished with particular severity, and Americans are more sensitive than ever about the words they choose when talking about race. And yet America … Continued
By Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era. Focusing on … Continued
By John Shelton Reed (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) John Shelton Reed is a sociologist who “can write clearly; has a sense of humor; and is not afraid to express opinion,” according to Choice. Reed’s popular, often humorous, books on the American South have earned him a reputation as one of the region’s most perceptive observers. Surveying the South collects … Continued
Edited by Mia Bay (NHC Fellow, 2009–10), Farah J. Griffin, and Martha Jones Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious … Continued
By Georgia Warnke (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that identities, in general, are interpretations and, as such, have more in common with textual understanding than we commonly acknowledge. … Continued