The Rising Generation chronicles the history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners. It focuses on the efforts of the “children of gradual abolition,” who, as grown-ups, shaped national and state campaigns for legal equality and the end of slavery.

Broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights movement, Up South explores the origins of civil rights liberalism, the failure of the liberal program of antidiscrimination legislation and interracial coalition-building to deliver on its promise of racial equality, and the subsequent rise of the Black Power movement.

Property damage constitutes a commonplace feature of global political protest. How then to evaluate it? Rejecting the tendency to conflate it with political violence, William E. Scheuerman grapples with the question of when, if ever, politically motivated property harms are justifiable, drawing on a wide range of timely real-world examples.

The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois, this volume examines how African and African American culture infused her artistry as a musician, dramatist, editor, and author and analyzes how her creative intellect shaped the evolution of her radical political commitments across the global Black freedom struggle.

In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown.

From boycotting Nestlé in the 1970s to lobbying against NAFTA to the "Battle of Seattle" protests against the World Trade Organization in the 1990s, No Globalization Without Representation is the story of how consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics at the twentieth century's close.

Senegal’s 1999 ban on female genital cutting (FGC) sparked resistance in Fouta Toro, and opposition to the ban in this region has long seemed unified. This ethnography unravels political tensions surrounding the ban and presents a more complicated reality, where ordinary women and men continue to debate the practice and meaning of FGC.

Why Not Build the Mosque explores the Greek state’s attempts to build a mosque. Looking at the project’s decades-long history of failure and its bittersweet realization in 2020, Dimitris Antoniou demonstrates the productivity of unrealized plans and sheds light on what it takes for things to happen in contemporary democracies.

Mobilization Politics reveals how activists in Philadelphia, working inside and outside the conventional political system, have effected important changes in criminal justice, immigrant rights, precarious labor, affordable housing, and community development while transforming how the city is governed.

This book tells the story of the astonishing uptake of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in the most powerful institutions of global governance. Vasuki Nesiah argues that grappling with ICF’s power is essential to achieving solidarity with dissident feminist traditions with priorities and interests that challenge the dominant world order.