Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.

Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Demonstrates the liberatory potential of Latinx Digital Humanities at Hispanic-Serving Institutions and in Latinx Studies classrooms.

Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.

The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

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

A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

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

Presents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day.

Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.

A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time.

A fresh and rigorous interpretation of William James's ethical theory, showing how experimenting with life's opportunities can transform one's self and life.

A bold and unflinching portrayal of contemporary Maya life in Chiapas, Mexico.

An “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.

The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech.

Tells the story of classic blues singers from Ma Rainey to Bessie Smith.

Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.

A time capsule of a classic Italian American neighborhood, told in the voices of its inhabitants.

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.