Black Midwestern Studies: A Reading List
This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.
James Baldwin and the FBI
The author was monitored for his political activities, but also for being gay. The surveillance took a toll on him.
On Black Power in the Pacific
How the meaning of Blackness, and the social construction of race, varies across era and region.