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Browse these new and notable titles for use in your African and African American Studies courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your African and African American Studies courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

Contributed by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, author of Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism and an award-winning professor of political science at Syracuse University. I’ll never forget the way it felt when I first learned that there was no Black Feminist History course offered at my undergraduate university. This elite institution

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your African and African American Studies courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

By Brian Batugo Student posters celebrating Black and Asian American solidarity. Photo credit: Brian Batugo   Asian American history must be included in the broader context of US history, especially given the increase in hate crimes and incidents resulting from xenophobic and racist rhetoric that falsely blamed the Asian American community for the coronavirus. Catherine

After his father’s death, Esau McCaulley went back through his family history, seeking to understand the community that shaped him: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. With profound honesty

Juneteenth, which is recognized on June 19th each year, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. We are highlighting books from Black writers that provide insight into the rich complexity of the African American experience through history, memoir, literature, and poetry. Find the list of titles here:

Dear Educators: Constance Baker Motley and the turbulent but hopeful era in which she lived and worked captivates students. Over email, at book fairs, and in university classrooms nationwide, students have approached me to explain how Civil Rights Queen, my book about Motley’s life and times, stimulated, provoked, and moved them. Motley’s admirers come from