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.

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.

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

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

The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.

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

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