African American Studies

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.

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.

An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.