Introduction: Painting the picture of black federal workers -- "Boy! Look at all these government girls!" : black opportunity in the nation's capital, 1941-1945 -- "Study long, study wrong" : achievements and limits of commissions studying discrimination in the federal workforce, 1945-1947 --...

Putting racial formation theory to work : a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach -- The lost files of Irish immigration history : the Irish woman question and racialized manual labors -- Southern mammy and African American "immigrant" women : reconstituting white...

"In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Liberalism is not enough offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Focusing on the figures associated with 'Great...

"Private restrictions on racial occupancy are a critical element and episode in the history of American inequality. This study draws on newly available full count (parcel-level) data on racial restriction for five Midwestern counties. The research makes four important and overlapping...