A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

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

Recounts the compelling stories of Civil War soldiers and sailors who lived in Oswego County, New York.

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

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.

An intimate and moving account of how the author rose from poverty to become a major Black political figure in New York State.

Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.

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

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.

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.

Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.

Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.

Examines slavery, abolition, and race in the United States with a special focus on New York State.

Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.

Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.

Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.