African American Studies
Freedom in Laughter
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.
City on the Edge
Explores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.
Racial Inequality in New York City since 1965
A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.
African Americans and the First Amendment
The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.
Neo-race Realities in the Obama Era
Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.
Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators
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.
The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized
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.
One America?
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.
Dimensions of Blackness
A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.
Gender and the Abjection of Blackness
An anti-racist critique of gender studies as a field.
Black Women in Politics
Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.
Another white Man's Burden
Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce’s ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.
Animating Black and Brown Liberation
Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.
Black Women and Social Justice Education
Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.
The Caribbeanization of Black Politics
Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.
Black Women's Mental Health
Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy.
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.
Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010
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.
Diasporic Blackness
Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.
Being Black, Being Male on Campus
Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.
After Katrina
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.
Race Still Matters
Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.
Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley
Explores the long-neglected rural dimensions of northern slavery and emancipation in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley.
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism
Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.