Marion Orr, Pearl Dowe, and Ravi K. Perry, eds.
This series has offered rigorous and innovative African American studies scholarship for over 25 years. Largely social scientific in methodology, the books in this series have historically been the backbone of African American studies scholarship at SUNY Press, making us a leader in black political science and public policy scholarship.
Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.
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.
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 close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.
Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.
The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.
Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.
The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.
Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s 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.
A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.
Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.
Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.
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.
Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.
Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.
A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.
Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.
Develops an alternative framework for describing and explaining African American politics and the American political system and applies it to a number of case studies.
Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.
A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading post–civil rights era African American political theorist and strategist.
Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency.
Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.
Comprehensive study of the state of black state legislative politics.