Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.

Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual.

Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.

Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.

Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.

Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.

Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.

Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.

Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s.

Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.

Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .

Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.

First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.

A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.