Keywords for African American Studies

As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, & culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for the first time, exploring not only the history of those categories but their continued relevance in the contemporary moment. 

Taking up a vast array of issues such as slavery, colonialism, prison expansion, sexuality, gender, feminism, war, & popular culture, Keywords for African American Studies showcases the startling breadth that characterizes the field. Featuring an august group of contributors across the social sciences & the humanities, the keywords assembled within the pages of this volume exemplify the depth & range of scholarly inquiry into Black life in the United States. 

Connecting lineages of Black knowledge production to contemporary considerations of race, gender, class, & sexuality, Keywords for African American Studies provides a model for how the scholarship of the field can meet the challenges of our social world.

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Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is professor of history & founding director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the University of Connecticut. He earned his PhD in US history from Indiana University Bloomington and his BA in history from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.