Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.

The inspirational story of an African American community that migrated from the Deep South to Albany, New York, in the 1930s.

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.

The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War.

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.

An in-depth look at the lives, experiences, and professional careers of Black mathematicians in the United States.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.

Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.

A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading post–civil rights era African American political theorist and strategist.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

Reveals a remarkable woman’s life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.

The story of an Ocean Hill–Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers’ strike of 1968.

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

A resource guide that uses African American memoir to address a variety of issues related to mentoring and curriculum development.