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Black Campus Life
(November 2021)
The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution
Antar A. Tichavakunda - Author
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Virgin Capital
(November 2021)
Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands
Tami Navarro - Author
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Blacks in Niagara Falls
(August 2021)
Leaders and Community Development, 1850-1985
Michael B. Boston - Author
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A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.
Blacks in Niagara Falls narrates and analyzes the history of Black Niagarans from the days of the Underground Railroad to the Age of Urban Renewal. Michael B. Boston details how Black Niagarans found themselv...(Read More) |
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Death Rights
(March 2021)
Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism
Deanna P. Koretsky - Author
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Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.
Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative “genius.” Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literatur...(Read More) |
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Identities in Flux
(February 2021)
Race, Migration, and Citizenship in Brazil
Niyi Afolabi - Author
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Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Drawing on historical and cultural approaches to race relations, Identities in Flux examines iconic Afro-Brazilian figures and theorizes how they have been appropriated to either support or contest a utopian vision of multiculturalism. Zumbi dos Palmares, the leader of a runaway s...(Read More) |
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Racialized Visions
(December 2020)
Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
Vanessa K. Valdés - Editor
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The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
As a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exch...(Read More) |
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Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
(November 2020)
Ana-Maurine Lara - Author
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Evocative, innovative ethnography of spiritual practices and forms of queer, black, and indigenous life in the Dominican Republic.
Winner of the 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology
Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork...(Read More) |
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The Immortals
(November 2020)
Makenzy Orcel - Author
Nathan H. Dize - Translator
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Translation of the award-winning debut novel by Haitian writer Makenzy Orcel about the lives of prostitutes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid the 2010 earthquake.
The Immortals is set in an infamous neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Grand-Rue, where many women, young and old, trade in flesh, sex, and desire. We learn, in glimpses and fragments, about the lives of women who fal...(Read More) |
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