African American Writing
Essays that honor the achievement of African American writers from the Enlightenment to the present
The Afrocentric Idea
Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and postmodernists updates this classic
Americans First
The Second World War’s role in bringing Chinese Americans into the mainstream of American society
The Audacity of Hoop
The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs
Baltimore '68
The first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities
Black Baltimore
Community self-help movements in Old West Baltimore provide an example of participatory democracy for other neighborhoods
Black Corporate Executives
A revealing study of the promising entry of Blacks into managerial ranks in corporations and the disappointing trend that tracked them into increasingly vulnerable jobs
Black Theatre
An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history
Black Venus 2010
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the “Hottentot Venus”
Civic Intimacies
Mapping the political and personal stakes of Black queer lives in Baltimore
The Coolie Speaks
A remarkable examination of bondage in Cuba that probes questions of slavery, freedom, and race
Daily Labors
Examining the vulnerabilities, discrimination, and exploitation—as well as the sense of belonging and community—that day laborers experience on an NYC street corner
Disabled Futures
Offering a new avenue for understanding race, gender, and disability as mutually constitutive through an analysis of literature and films
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Do Right by Me
Invites readers into a conversation on how best to raise black children in white families and white communities
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The End of Empires
A trailblazing book that details the close historic ties between Black America and India over the decades
From Slave Ship to Supermax
The first interdisciplinary study of mass incarceration to intersect the fields of literary studies, critical prison studies, and human rights
Global Philadelphia
A comprehensive analysis of the processes and consequences of immigration to Philadelphia over time
Hapa Girl
A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South Dakota
Hip Hop Underground
Race and authenticity in America, explored through the Bay Area’s multiracial underground hip hop scene
How Racism Takes Place
How racism shapes urban spaces and how African Americans create vibrant communities that offer models for more equitable social arrangements
Immigrant Crossroads
Highlights immigrant engagement in urban development, policy, and social movements
Invisible People
Unforgettable profiles of immigrants, natives, loners, villains, eccentrics, and oracles
Islam in Urban America
How does the practice of Islam and its community of believers change in the American context?
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
Now in paperback, an extraordinary history of African American women, and their struggle for gender and racial equality in the church and society
Just Who Loses?
A rich vein of data that lays bare pervasive discriminatory environments and their systemic consequences for "targets and non-targets" of discrimination.
Look, a White!
From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness
The Man-Not
Introduces the conceptual foundations for Black Male Studies, going beyond gender theories that cast the Black Male as a pathological aspiring patriarch
Mediating America
How black and Irish journalists in the Gilded Age used newspapers to shape and constrain the struggle for American belonging
No More Invisible Man
Making visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupations
Orientals
A compelling study of how the label "oriental" came into being
The Palestinian Idea
A window into the Palestinian freedom struggle, drawing on an analysis of Palestinian film and media
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
The twentieth anniversary edition of a widely influential book—now updated to address racial privilege in the age of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Donald Trump
Race Appeal
Why, when, and how often candidates use race appeals, and how the electorate responds
Reframing Transracial Adoption
A provocative critique of transnational, transracial adoption from a critical race and feminist perspective and a vision for reform
Resurrecting Slavery
Revealing how the histories of slavery and colonialism are being resurrected and racialized in France today
Savage Portrayals
How the media's racialized coverage of the Central Park Jogger case influenced the conviction of five young minority men accused of "wilding" and affected the American juvenile justice system
Savoring the Salt
An anthology that celebrates the life and work of a major African American writer
Selling Transracial Adoption
Examines cross-race adoptions from the perspectives of adoption providers, showing how racial hierarchies and the supply and demand for children shape the process
Silent Gesture
The story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged it
Tasting Freedom
The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America
Unsettled Solidarities
Illuminates the intersecting logics of settler colonialism and racialization through analysis of contemporary Asian and Indigenous crossings in the Américas
We Shall Be Free!
In primary sources, unearthing the writings of African American Communists and the forgotten promise of radical politics