The Department of Africana Studies stands at the center of the study of the African American experience, Africa, and the African Diaspora—the global dispersion of peoples of African descent.

From Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who “has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades” (...

Since the 1990s, U.S. state legislatures have become increasingly responsible for immigration policymaking. Still, social scientists lack a publicly available, decades-long, policy database documentin...

How a largely Latino/a workforce of immigration agents reconciles the moral ambiguities of its work

With the rise of genomics, beliefs about the relationship between race and genetics are increasingly important. Genetic essentialist beliefs – the idea that races have core essences determined by t...

His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

Priority application due date: March 14, 2025, for start date in spring/summer 2025.  The Extension Rural Health Connection (ERHC) project at the University of Wisconsin—Madison is an interdisciplinar...

The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

The genomic revolution is highly relevant to scholarship on racial conceptualization. As genomic research has increasingly focused on small amounts of variation between ancestral groups, it may pro...