Black History Month — February in the U.S. — provides an opportunity to both celebrate the Black community’s past contributions and consider the issues and obstacles to equity today and tomorrow. Research and scholarship is a vital component of this work and is instrumental to creating policies, practices, and procedures that improve lives.

We have created a Black History Month website to highlight and facilitate access to this research, which brings together free journal articles and other resources published by SAGE. Many resources are intersectional and interdisciplinary across the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Additionally, we have a selection of book chapters that are open to the public and free to share. Some of the featured book content includes: 

• Read bell hooks’ essay, The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators, from Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, Sixth Edition. 

• The 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in Rethinking the Color Line, Seventh Edition of how Black Americans have fought to correct America’s false founding ideals. 

• In Aaron Fichtelberg’s Criminal (In)Justice: A Critical Introduction, read about issues of police misconduct and how they relate to the Defund the Police movement. 

• The new edition of Race and Crime, from Shaun L. Gabbidon and Helen Taylor Greene, explores both historical and contemporary issues in race and policing. 

• In Shaw et al.’s Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics, learn about the process of racialization that African Americans endured from the late 1600s to the mid-1860s and how U.S. society struggled with issues of Black citizenship and status. 

• From Getting Real About Race, Third Edition, James M. Thomas discusses the myths and realities of memorializing the Confederacy. 

• Sharoni Little explores the need to confront, dismantle, and (re)write the historical narrative of Black boys in education in The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys. 

• In Teaching Brilliant and Beautiful Black Girls read from Raedell Cannie and Geneva Gay’s chapter about resources for supporting Black girls throughout their education. 

• Read the opening chapter from Sharone Brinkley-Parker et al.’s “Race Matters Because Racism Does” in Humanity Over Comfort: How You Confront Systemic Racism Head On   

At SAGE, we are driven by the belief that social and behavioral science research and teaching resources have the power to dismantle mechanisms of discrimination, oppression, and violence and ultimately, improve lives.