African American Studies

African American characters navigate a physical and spiritual journey beginning in the antebellum South.

Jazz, opera, and various blues serve as the soundtrack for this collection of fairytales for grown-ups of all ages.

Examines the continued emotional, economic, and cultural enslavement of African Americans in the twenty-first century.

Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.

Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives.

A collection of brilliantly crafted poems with intense imagery and cadence, representing the African American experience of enslavement and the author’s rootedness in the folkways and history of African Americans in Louisiana.

Collection of poems by R. Flowers Rivera, Naomi Long Madgett Poetry award winner.

A complete biography of one of the seminal figures in American jurisprudence.

A history of how racial disunity and industrial decline handicapped post-World War II urban planning initiatives in Detroit.