African American Studies

From the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of MLKThe Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South, but award-winning and New York Times-bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues...

Explores race, class, and identity in relationship to wealth inequality in America.From Black Wall Street to the Story of O.J. explores the relationship between race and class in the United States, with an emphasis on wealth as a prism to interpret...

Conveys the experiential realities of those racialized as Black and, in turn, demonstrates that biological distinctions are only surface-level cues by which a racialized system assigned real lived experiences."I have Black friends" is a common defense...

Conveys the experiential realities of those racialized as Black and, in turn, demonstrates that biological distinctions are only surface-level cues by which a racialized system assigned real lived experiences."I have Black friends" is a common defense...

Examines how young adult second-generation Igbo Americans construct their ethnic and transnational identities in a multicultural society. Drawing on interviews, cultural narratives, and thematic analysis, this book foregrounds the voices of SGI...

Analyzing the writer as an activist and feminist who helped shape the Black women's movement. Frances E. W. Harper was a pioneering figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature and intellectual thought. A poet, educator,...

Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity is the long-awaited successor to Blacks in Appalachia (1985), the first modern anthology to examine the socioeconomic, cultural, and political experiences of Black Appalachians. Edited by Cicero M. Fain III,...

Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity is the long-awaited successor to Blacks in Appalachia (1985), the first modern anthology to examine the socioeconomic, cultural, and political experiences of Black Appalachians. Edited by Cicero M. Fain III,...

The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation's racial regime. In a masterpiece of...

After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968-2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the respect of major film industry figures, and became the topic of both scholarly and popular culture film...

After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968-2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the respect of major film industry figures, and became the topic of both scholarly and popular culture film...

In Coleman Young and Detroit Politics, Wilbur Rich delivers the first serious biography of this powerful and fascinating political figure. Coleman Young, elected Detroit's first black mayor in 1973, is the city's longest-serving chief executive...