Race and Ethnicity

An explosive, award-winning novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-year-young classic that provides commentary on the racial inequities in the US in the late 1960s - and today.

A moving memoir exploring one family’s legacy of African Americans with American Indian roots.

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

Details Reverend Bradby’s work during the Great Migration and the interwar period, when his Second Baptist Church became an important hub for Detroit’s African American community.

Explores a neglected cultural and social history from a variety of perspectives.

A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.

Collects nearly four decades’ worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.