Race Adjustment

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Kelly Miller, Jonathan Holloway

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Columbia Global Reports
07 January 2026

Reportage & collected journalism; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social discrimination; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR's founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR's core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering historical insights that challenge contemporary perspectives and reaffirm the power of journalism to shape the world.

Before Martin, before Malcolm-before Du Bois and Garvey sharpened their ideological blades-there was Kelly Miller. A pioneering mathematician, sociologist, and columnist, Miller was one of the most widely read Black intellectuals of the early twentieth century. Race Adjustment, first published in 1908, stood as his response to the tumult of Jim Crow America-a fiery, clear-eyed set of essays that refused to choose sides between Booker T. Washington's cautious pragmatism and W.E.B. Du Bois's elite-driven activism.

Collected here with a trenchant new introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway, this volume restores Miller to his rightful place as the intellectual center of gravity in a period of radical transition. His critiques of political cowardice, economic exploitation, and the hypocrisies of American democracy ring out with undiminished power. Written from the ""middle ground,"" Miller's words carried far and wide-from the pages of the Black press to the corridors of power. This selection reveals a moral voice unafraid to indict injustice wherever it appeared-and to ask, over a century later: Has the nation truly adjusted?

The complete Forerunners series:

Campaigns of Curiosity, by Elizabeth L. Banks; with an introduction by Brooke Kroeger Cuba in War Time, by Richard Harding Davis; with an introduction by Peter Maas Race Adjustment, by Kelly Miller; with an introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway Drift and Mastery, by Walter Lippmann; with an introduction by Nicholas Lemann

By: Kelly Miller
Introduction by: Jonathan Holloway
Imprint: Columbia Global Reports
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781967190065
ISBN 10: 1967190062
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 07 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kelly Miller (1863–1939) was a pioneering African American intellectual, mathematician, and sociologist. As a longtime professor and dean at Howard University, he became a leading public voice on race, education, and civil rights. A prolific essayist, Miller advocated for reasoned reform and interracial cooperation in works like Race Adjustment (1908), shaping early twentieth-century Black political thought. Jonathan Scott Holloway is a historian and president and CEO of the Luce Foundation. He previously served as Ppresident of Rutgers University (2020–2025), provost at Northwestern University, and dean of Yale College. He is the author of The Cause of Freedom, Jim Crow Wisdom, and Confronting the Veil, works that explore African American history, memory, and political thought in the twentieth century.

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