And She's Off!

 

This week Katherine Mooney, our new historian of the 19th century US south, published Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack (Harvard University Press). “Writing with exceptional polish and élan, Katherine Mooney succeeds brilliantly at restoring humanity to black jockeys and trainers. This superb book says as much about the cruelties and distortions wrought by racism in nineteenth-century America as any single book can.”—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. Buy it at your local bookstore or online. Congratulations Professor Mooney!