Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.

Shows how authentic diversity and inclusive leadership practices can promote anti-racist, equitable, and transformational change in institutions of higher learning in the United States and beyond.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

Deeply engaging study of how fourteen Black mothers—including the author—support and advocate for their autistic sons.

Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

Fully revised, updated edition of the classic text with all new essays assessing the state of race and racial issues in US higher education today.

Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.

The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Upholds Ann Plato as a noteworthy nineteenth-century writer, while reexamining her life and writing from an American Indian perspective.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.

The inspirational story of an African American community that migrated from the Deep South to Albany, New York, in the 1930s.

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.

The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War.

Develops an alternative framework for describing and explaining African American politics and the American political system and applies it to a number of case studies.

An in-depth look at the lives, experiences, and professional careers of Black mathematicians in the United States.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture.

Explores the curating of “difficult knowledge” through the exhibition of lynching photographs in contemporary museums.

A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading post–civil rights era African American political theorist and strategist.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

Reveals a remarkable woman’s life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.

The story of an Ocean Hill–Brownsville teacher who crossed picket lines during the racially charged New York City teachers’ strike of 1968.