Education

Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper argues that these ladies assumed this responsibility as part of a...

Ladies of Little Rock explores the agency and activism of middle-class Black women and girls who led the movement to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper argues that these ladies assumed this responsibility as part of a...

Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, mathematical reasoning, and more than two decades of teaching and research, Dr...

Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, and over two decades of teaching and research, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson introduces...

Looks closely at the mental health concerns of Black men in higher education and offers valuable resources and tools for addressing them.This volume assembles a diverse range of scholars, administrators, counselors, and other mental health professionals...

Captive Ecologies makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery's afterlife, tracing the complex entanglements between racial capitalism and Black ecological freedom. Attending to the ways that racial capitalism implicates both captive bodies...

Captive Ecologies makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery's afterlife, tracing the complex entanglements between racial capitalism and Black ecological freedom. Attending to the ways that racial capitalism implicates both captive bodies...

From a celebrated librarian and public historian, a memoir about the promise of public libraries in a fractured world."This wonderful book appeals to the heart as well as to the mind, challenging the dark times we live in." --Azar Nafisi, author of...

Writings on black men's cultural production and black masculinity by one of today's leading historians of modern and contemporary art. Collecting twenty years of incisive essays, articles, and interviews--including four published here for the first...

The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American EnglishFew words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is universally recognized as offensive, fierce debates continue over the use of...

Discover the story of the first woman to direct a major public library system in the United States and the first African American president of the American Library Association. Jones's appointment to Director of the Detroit Public Library in 1970...

A groundbreaking analysis of Frederick Douglass as constitutional theorist, showing how his vision, which prefigured today's originalism, melded history and natural rights to address the evil of slavery. In his celebrated address "What to the Slave is...