Tells the story of classic blues singers from Ma Rainey to Bessie Smith.

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

A rich, authentic account of eight young Black men's experiences on their paths to and through college.

Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.

A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.

An intimate and moving account of how the author rose from poverty to become a major Black political figure in New York State.

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.

Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.

Moves Black women's voices and experiences from the margins to the center of conversations about public health.

A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.

Analyzes the value of using case-based methodologies to address contemporary social justice issues in philosophy.

Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Examines how Mexican Americans experienced “unofficial” Jim Crow inside and outside the American education system, and how they used the courts, Mexican Consul, and other resources to challenge that discrimination.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.