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.

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.

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

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.

Deeply engaging study of how fourteen Black mothers—including the author—support and advocate for their autistic sons.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

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.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

The first edited collection to offer a systematic introduction to African phenomenology.

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

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.

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.