African American Studies

A collection of poems that intensely explore the beauty and wisdom to be found in what we commonly call "everyday" encounters, relationships, occurrences, and spaces.

An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.

The story of Civil Rights icon and Black lawyer who fought racism and political oppression with uncommon devotion.

Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.

A collection of tightly crafted poems of intense imagery, sharp cadence, and poignant emotional resonance, representing the African American experience of enslavement in the United States.

A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.

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

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.