In this collection of critical studies co-edited by Stephanie Shonekan, contributors draw from ethnographic research and personal encounters to illustrate how music in the Black Lives Matter movement can contribute to public awareness of the injustices in our society.

Rusert is a finalist for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize for her first book, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York University Press). Please join us for the book launch of her second book (co-edited with Whitney Battle-Baptiste) W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits Visualizing Black America on Friday, November 2 from 4–6p.m. at the W. E. B. Du Bois Center.

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.