This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.

A century after the publication of the first Surrealist manifesto, the role played by film in the movement is still unfolding.

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

This non-exhaustive list of readings in African American Studies highlights the vibrant history of the discipline and introduces the field.