African American Studies
On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human
Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.
Black Feminist Writing
Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.
Snapping Beans
Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.
Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas
Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.
A Thousand Worries
Deeply engaging study of how fourteen Black mothers—including the author—support and advocate for their autistic sons.
Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership
Shows how authentic diversity and inclusive leadership practices can promote anti-racist, equitable, and transformational change in institutions of higher learning in the United States and beyond.
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
Transatlantic Bondage
A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
Black Women and Resilience
A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.
Folklore Matters
Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.
From Blues to Beyoncé
Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.
Jazz with a Beat
The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.
The Chosen We
Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.
Expanding the Music Theory Canon
The first music theory anthology to provide 255 topically arranged examples by 67 historical women and people of color.
Reclaiming Time
Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.
African American Coping in the Political Sphere
Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.
Phenomenology in an African Context
The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.
Feminist Spiritualities
Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.
The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, Third Edition
Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.
Reauthoring Savage Inequalities
Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.
Black in Print
Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.
The Eight
The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.
San Mateo de Cangrejos
Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan.
Ana M. López
Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.