Blues on Stage

By John L. Clark Jr.
Subjects: Film, Visual Culture, And Performing Arts
Series: Suny Press Jazz Styles, Excelsior Editions

Tells the story of classic blues singers from Ma Rainey to Bessie Smith.

Ana M. López

By Ana M. López
Edited by Laura Podalsky, Dolores Tierney
Introduction by Laura Podalsky, and Dolores Tierney
Subjects: Film, Visual Culture, And Performing Arts
Series: SUNY series in Latin American Cinema

Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.

The Eight

By Albert M. Rosenblatt
Subjects: New York/regional
Series: Excelsior Editions

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

By Gilberto Aponte Torres
Translated by Karen Juanita Carrillo
Subjects: African American Studies
Series: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures

Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan.

Black in Print

By Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Subjects: Latin American, Caribbean, And Latinx Studies
Series: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

Reauthoring Savage Inequalities

Edited by Lori D. Patton, Ishwanzya D. Rivers, Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton, and Joi D. Lewis
Foreword by William T. Trent
Afterword by Tara J. Yosso
Subjects: Education
Series: SUNY series, Critical Race Studies in Education

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.