Category: Race and Ethnicity in America
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In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, we interviewed author Kim E. Nielsen, author of A Disability History of the United States, about the history of disability in North American Indigenous culture.
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The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.
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Amy Alexander writes about a documentary James Baldwin filmed in San Francisco the year she was born.
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A new book looks at the community-led recovery efforts that rebuilt New Orleans post-Katrina.
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The words of Frederick Douglass on the meaning of Independence Day continues to hold meaning for many who find it hard to embrace the holiday.
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How has desegregation failed our schools? How do we learn from those failures without ignoring the successes?
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Obama’s statement on marriage equality is a model of religious reasoning. Jay Michaelson explains.
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In the wake of President Obama's "evolution" on marriage equality, we're collecting reactions from our authors. Rodger Streitmatter, author of Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples Obama’s announcement is absolutely huge. I think it will go down in history as an instance when a president had the courage to throw his weight behind…
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It is not a requirement that you be a Red Sox fan to work at Beacon Press, but it let’s just say that it helps. There are many Fenway faithful around our offices, and we are fans who must live with the complicated, not always admirable, history of our favorite team. And, ten years ago, we…
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In the early evening of April 4th, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His lifelong philosophy of nonviolence and dedication to economic and social justice moved the nation. The King Legacy Series website has many resources available, including teachers guides and biographies of King and the scholars involved with the…
