African American Studies
Something Akin to Freedom
Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.
Convergences
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
Unequal Desires
Investigates race and racism in the U. S. exotic dance industry.
The Obama Effect
Timely, multidisciplinary analysis of Obama’s presidential campaign, its context, and its impact.
Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same
Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism.
Multicultural Geographies
Geographical perspectives on the changing patterns of race and ethnicity in the United States.
The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Offers important new perspectives on the African Diaspora in North America.
Imagining Black Womanhood
Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.
Disciplining Women
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
Who Should Be First?
Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign.
The American Optic
Brings together critical race theory and psychoanalysis to examine African American and other diasporic African cultural texts.
Anachronism and Its Others
Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.
African Americans Doing Feminism
African American women and men share their stories of how feminism has influenced their daily lives.
Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice
Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.
Representing Segregation
Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era.
Caribbean Genesis
Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.
But One Race
Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.
Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts
Critical edition of three women’s oral slave narratives.
African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education
Looks at town-gown relationships with a focus on African Americans.
Womanist Forefathers
Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.
The Suffering Will Not Be Televised
Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.
The Specter of Sex
Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
Feel These Words
An in-depth look at the creative writing practices of nine Chicago youths.
The Emotions of a New Era
DVD capturing crowd reactions and emotions during the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, in Washington, D. C.
Digital Diaspora
Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.