Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.

Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.

A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him.

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.

Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Moves Black women's voices and experiences from the margins to the center of conversations about public health.

A celebration of New York State's history through 19 key events from the state's founding to today.

Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.

A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.

Examines how Mexican Americans experienced “unofficial” Jim Crow inside and outside the American education system, and how they used the courts, Mexican Consul, and other resources to challenge that discrimination.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.