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

The story of one African American woman’s decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery.

Explores the particulars of minority-serving institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness.

One man’s account of becoming a feminist professor.

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

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

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. ”

One of the most comprehensive books examining the experiences of African Americans throughout the educational enterprise.

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

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

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

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

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

Studies black feminist approaches to political science and African American women as political actors.

Poems of celebration and endurance.

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

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

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.

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

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

Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.

Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.