Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.

Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.

Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s.

Provides a contemporary response to such landmark volumes as All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave and This Bridge Called My Back.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.

Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.

Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .

Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.

First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.

A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.

Upholds Ann Plato as a noteworthy nineteenth-century writer, while reexamining her life and writing from an American Indian perspective.

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.

The inspirational story of an African American community that migrated from the Deep South to Albany, New York, in the 1930s.

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.

The story of thirty-six African American men who drew upon their shared community of The Hills for support as they fought in the Civil War.

Develops an alternative framework for describing and explaining African American politics and the American political system and applies it to a number of case studies.

An in-depth look at the lives, experiences, and professional careers of Black mathematicians in the United States.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

Examines the progress of and obstacles faced by African Americans in twenty-first-century America.