“This superb [essay] collection enables readers of Invisible Man to appreciate the subtleties of its cultural and political commentary.” —Journal of Ameri

African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have a

Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declared that “the greatest duty of a statesman is to educate." The central claim of Why Moralize upon It? is that it is no

Compelling treatment of a question pervading literature from antiquity: when is hope a good thing and when is it not?

In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions—like tho