Brings together 27 essays - 24 written specifically for these volumes - on critical issues of the black American experience. Essays deal with theoretical as well as historical issues, and often present conflicting views on the same topic.
Nathan Irvin Huggins was W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of History and of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University as well as director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research.