Race and Ethnicity

Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century.

Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.

A revealing collection of correspondence between Chester Himes and John A. Williams, two prominent twentieth-century African American novelists.

An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.

The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.

A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom.

A study of the most racially conscious aspect of the Conservative movement and its impact on politics and current public policy.

This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art—one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation.

The four Milner plays collected here —Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition —are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture.