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Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,

Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

Angela Davis on cultivating long range imagination: “We wouldn’t be here today had it not been the case that in the 1600s and 1700s there were Black people who believed in the possibility of freedom and we are the beneficiaries of that imagination.”

Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water

As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

from Africa to the

Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir

Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900 (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

Andrew Sluyter

FROM THE JUNIOR Black Americans of Achievement series onward, I had been taught that racist ideas cause racist policies. That ignorance and hate cause racist ideas. That the root problem of racism is ignorance and hate. But that gets the chain of events exactly wrong. The root problem—from Prince Henry to President Trump—has always been the self-in

Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist

Rediscovering One of the Institute's First Women of Color

Caitlin Rizzo ias.edu

how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.