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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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