Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.

Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.

Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

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.

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.