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.

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Explores Black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

A resource guide that uses African American memoir to address a variety of issues related to mentoring and curriculum development.

Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.

Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.

Comprehensive analysis of how Harlem and the Lower East Side have been depicted over the course of the twentieth century in African American and Jewish American literature.

Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency.

Selected essays on radical social change.

Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.

Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century

The story of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a pioneering African American figure in sports and education

Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the “Palace Brawl” of 2004.

Examines the metaphors of the “primitive” and the “industrial” in the rhetoric and imagery of anticapitalist American radical and revolutionary movements.

Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.

Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U. S. through a focus on historical, visual, cultural, and literary texts.

Collection of Black women’s stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters

New and selected poems on love, faith, and the African American experience.

Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.