Brian D. Behnken is associate professor in the Department of History and the US Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University. He is author of Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas and, with Gregory D. Smithers, Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito.Gregory D. Smithers is professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is author of several books, including Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal; Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History; and The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, ReSettlement, and Identity.Simon Wendt is associate professor of American studies at Goethe University of Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. He is author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights; editor of Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; and coeditor of several books, including Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective.

Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America is a welcome introduction to the field that can and should be widely read. . . . Taken together, the seven essays in this volume encourage readers to conceptualize a black intellectualism that makes room for a myriad of voices and perspectives.

Brian D. Behnken is associate professor in the Department of History and the US Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University. He is author of Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas and, with Gregory D. Smithers, Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito.Gregory D. Smithers is professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is author of several books, including Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal; Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History; and The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, ReSettlement, and Identity.Simon Wendt is associate professor of American studies at Goethe University of Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. He is author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights; editor of Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; and coeditor of several books, including Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective.

Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America is a welcome introduction to the field that can and should be widely read. . . . Taken together, the seven essays in this volume encourage readers to conceptualize a black intellectualism that makes room for a myriad of voices and perspectives.

Brian D. Behnken is associate professor in the Department of History and the US Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University. He is author of Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas and, with Gregory D. Smithers, Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito.Gregory D. Smithers is professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is author of several books, including Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal; Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History; and The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, ReSettlement, and Identity.Simon Wendt is associate professor of American studies at Goethe University of Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. He is author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights; editor of Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; and coeditor of several books, including Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective.

Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America is a welcome introduction to the field that can and should be widely read. . . . Taken together, the seven essays in this volume encourage readers to conceptualize a black intellectualism that makes room for a myriad of voices and perspectives.