Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.

Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.

Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.

Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

Wide-ranging examination of American philosophy's ties to settler colonialism and its role as both an object and a force of decolonization.

Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.

Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.

Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.

The first history of the US Travel Bureau, which set the precedent for federal involvement in promoting tourism and travel, an activity which continues today.

Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.

Explores the complex interplay of race and culture in the doctoral experiences of African American students.

Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.

Explores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.

A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.