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

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.

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

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

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

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

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

Selected essays on radical social change.

Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency.

Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.

Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.

Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.

Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.

Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century

The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education

Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the “Palace Brawl” of 2004.

Examines the metaphors of the “primitive” and the “industrial” in the rhetoric and imagery of anticapitalist American radical and revolutionary movements.

Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.

Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U. S. through a focus on historical, visual, cultural, and literary texts.

Collection of Black women’s stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters

Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.

New and selected poems on love, faith, and the African American experience.

Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.

Timely, multidisciplinary analysis of Obama’s presidential campaign, its context, and its impact.

Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.

Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.

Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.

Geographical perspectives on the changing patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States.

An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.

Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Brings together critical race theory and psychoanalysis to examine African American and other diasporic African cultural texts.

Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.

African American women and men share their stories of how feminism has influenced their daily lives.

Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.

Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era.

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.

Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.

Critical edition of three women’s oral slave narratives.

Looks at town-gown relationships with a focus on African Americans.

Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.

Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.

Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.

An in-depth look at the creative writing practices of nine Chicago youths.

Expanded audiobook edition of the widely praised collection of letters to Michelle Obama by African American women

DVD capturing crowd reactions and emotions during the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, in Washington, D. C.

Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers.

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.

Interview-based study of contemporary African American feminist men.

Juxtaposes the meteoric rise of Barack Obama with far-reaching—and disturbing—shifts in black leadership in post–Civil Rights America.

Explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.

Investigates the literary voices of six Black women entertainers and how they negotiated the tensions between the entertainment industries and the Black community.

How these two cinemas portray complex and changing notions of national and racial identity.

Ten contemporary plays that dramatize the volatile relationships between Blacks and Jews in American society.

Explores the role of the literary protest essay in addressing social divisions in the United States.

Comprehensive study of the state of black state legislative politics.

Examines the political and economic changes of recent decades in the Mississippi Delta.

Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.

Offers both a theoretical and concrete example of what W. E. B. Du Bois called “spiritual strivings. ”

Explores the interplay between artistic values and social, political, and moral concerns in writings by African American and Native American women.

Fourth volume of biographies of African American women community leaders, focusing this time on Oklahoma.

Classic history of Ancient Ethiopia, as researched and written by a heralded African American woman activist.

Explores convergences between the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and African American thought.

Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.

Poems of celebration and endurance.

Analyzes Black women’s rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.

Provides a comparative look at women's texts across the Americas.

Documents political advances made by African Americans in the South over the last twenty-five years.

Considers perspectives from a diverse group of women educational researchers of color who center their discussion within the margins rather than from the center.

Multidisciplinary perspectives on segregation in the United States and other developed countries.

Traces the origins of Black body politics in the United States and its contemporary manifestations in hip-hop music and film.

This long-awaited revision of a classic work traces the unique development of business enterprises and other community organizations among black Americans from before the Civil War to the present.

Third volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

An overview and critical appraisal of the work of influential sociologist and public intellectual William Julius Wilson.

A compelling biography of a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an eminent Chicago-trained sociologist, and a pioneering race relations leader.

Explores why women abolitionists turned to children's literature to make their case against slavery.

Second volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.

Explores modern African-American Islamic thought within the context of Islamic history, giving special attention to questions of universality versus particularity.

Biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.

A ground-breaking look at how access to decision making in the public schools can be extended to all, even previously excluded segments of the community.

A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.

Examines African American influence on United States foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.

Explores the complex ways in which Blacks and Jews have portrayed each other in recent American literature.

Groundbreaking research on Black political participation and urban race relations on both sides of the Atlantic.

Presents the theoretical dimension of three decades of research on African-derived concepts of helping.

Traces the connection between slavery and the way in which black women fiction writers depict female characters and address gender issues, particularly maternity.

Through excerpts and profiles, this inspiring book presents the experiences of twelve African American artists who teach at traditionally White colleges and universities.

Offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the United States's continuing dilemma of race.

Written by two of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the topic, this book provides a panoramic overview of black leadership in the United States.

Examines the significant role played by the U. S. Supreme Court in shaping race relations and affecting civil rights in the period between the end of the Civil War and the 1954 Brown decision.

Examines how citizens and the political leadership of two cities dealt with controversial court orders to end the segregation of public schools.

An alternative pedagogical perspective toward the education of Black children is explored through the narratives of five African Canadian women teachers.

The first comprehensive chronicle of the events shaping African Americans’ views about Japan and the Japanese.

This first book-length study of Jesse Jackson's international activities places his activism abroad in theoretical and historical perspective and shows how it belongs to a tradition of U.S. citizen diplomacy as old as the Republic.

Tells the story (in the participants' own words) of how a determined southern filibuster was turned back in the U. S. Senate and the 1964 Civil Rights Act made into law.

Offers insights into the creation of more effective and empowering schools and classrooms for Black males.

Experienced American educators discuss the impact of social inequalities created by racism and sexism on the U. S. educational system.