Exploring the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded the marketplace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Susan E. Phillips offers a new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace and uncovers a pedagogy that is expansive, flexible, and inclusive.

Living Tangier examines African migration to Europe and European migration to Africa, focusing on the dynamics of migration in terms of race and legal standing in Tangier, a Moroccan city at the intersection of Africa and Europe. Based on extensive ethnographic work, it explores how migrants experience and affect the city.

Drawing on Arthurian literature written in Castilian, Catalan, Middle Welsh, and Old Norse, among other languages, The Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whiteness.

Through searing firsthand accounts by students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We’re Seen chronicles COVID-19’s devastating effects on working-class communities of color and the resilient ways those communities banded together.

By approaching the colonial Caribbean as an interconnected region, Tessa Murphy recasts small islands as the site of broader contests over Indigenous dominion, racial belonging, economic development, and colonial subjecthood.

Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon, writes Urvashi Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage.

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism.

Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Pana, a community of Christian Dalits. The Violence of Recognition reveals the violent implications of minority recognition in creating and maintaining hierarchies of racial capitalism.