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.

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.