E. James West is a UK-based historian and writer. His work focuses on the modern United States, with a particular interest in popular history, race, media, and visual culture.

He is the author of Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America (Illinois, 2020), A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago (Illinois, 2022), and Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. (Massachusetts, 2022).

His writing has appeared in numerous scholarly and popular publications, including African American Review, The American Historian, Black Perspectives, The Black Scholar, the Journal of African American History, the Journal of American Studies, and the Washington Post. He had received fellowships from a range of major organisations and institutions, including the Fulbright Commission, the Leverhulme Trust, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, the Library of Congress, and the British Library.

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Meet the Buildings that Housed Chicago's Black Press
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Highways, High-Rises and Food Deserts
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Race, Environmental Justice, and DOCUMERICA at 50 
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The Missing Element in the Democrats' Battle over Biden's Agenda
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The Tears of Carl Lewis
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Protest, Property, and the Black Press 
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British Racial Violence and Transatlantic Black Activism
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