African American Studies
Black Passports
A resource guide that uses African American memoir to address a variety of issues related to mentoring and curriculum development.
Vernacular Insurrections
Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
From Every Mountainside
Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.
Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
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.
John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance
Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency.
Seeking the Beloved Community
Selected essays on radical social change.
Struggles for Equal Voice
Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.
Body as Evidence
Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century
Faithful to the Task at Hand
The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education
After Artest
Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the “Palace Brawl” of 2004.
Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle
Examines the metaphors of the “primitive” and the “industrial” in the rhetoric and imagery of anticapitalist American radical and revolutionary movements.
Reframing the Practice of Philosophy
Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.
Blood at the Root
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.
Black Womanist Leadership
Collection of Black women’s stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters
Sweet Solitude
New and selected poems on love, faith, and the African American experience.
Something Akin to Freedom
Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.
Convergences
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
Unequal Desires
Investigates race and racism in the U. S. exotic dance industry.
The Obama Effect
Timely, multidisciplinary analysis of Obama’s presidential campaign, its context, and its impact.
Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same
Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.
Multicultural Geographies
Geographical perspectives on the changing patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States.
The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.
Imagining Black Womanhood
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.
Disciplining Women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
Who Should Be First?
Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.