Jazz with a Beat

By Tad Richards
Subjects: Film, Visual Culture, And Performing Arts
Series: Excelsior Editions

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition

By Bruce Jackson
Subjects: Literature
Series: Excelsior Editions

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Edited by Kisha Braithwaite Holden & Camara Phyllis Jones
Foreword by Valerie Montgomery Rice
Subjects: African American Studies
Series: SUNY series in Black Women's Wellness

A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.

Edited by Lissette Acosta Corniel
Subjects: Latin American, Caribbean, And Latinx Studies
Series: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures

A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.