African American Studies

Focusing on the paintings of the talented and thoughtful Harold Neal, this book explores the efflorescence of Detroit African American art in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and the impact the Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Arts Movements had on this art movement.

Describes the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit.

Exploring the will to survive the existential disorientation and emotional loss resulting from fractured relationships with lovers and kin.

An imagined personal exchange with Marvin Gaye, in verse, on life in Michigan.

Employs an interdisciplinary critical approach to discuss a selected group of black-oriented films.

Explores the bonds of family, neighbors, lovers, and friends as they are tested in new environments.

A colllection of poetic reflections on the public and private life of an American intellectual giant.

A personal narrative of past and present racial violence and resistance to terror in the United States.

Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.