by Toussaint Losier and Dan Berger

Rethinking the American Prison Movement critically reviews and engages the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show how prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. 

by Tiffany Pennamon (August 31, 2017)

Dr. Britt Rusert's new book, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture sheds a contemporary light on the Black artists, scientists, clergy and activists working to critique and challenge the racist sicences of the 19th century.

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One of the largest departments of its kind, the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies serves students seeking in-depth knowledge of the history and culture of black people in the Americas and the worldwide African Diaspora.