African American Studies

Black communities in America have a long history of constructing sanctuaries amid oppression, from the secret hush harbors of slavery to the digital refuges created in response to the resurgence of white supremacist violence in the Trump era. These...

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in 20th and 21st-century filmmaking. Topics include a discursive analysis of stereotypes; roles garnered by Halle...

In the new media age, the Black press has undergone significant changes in content, ownership, and audience. Some digital Black news outlets are foregrounding entertainment over hard news stories, others are not Black owned, many are attracting non-Black...

In the new media age, the Black press has undergone significant changes in content, ownership, and audience. Some digital Black news outlets are foregrounding entertainment over hard news stories, others are not Black owned, many are attracting non-Black...

As a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned "whether my skin was too dark" and if she "acted...

Uses an intersectional and intertextual methodology to present a rigorous yet accessible study of Black queer women artists in theater and film. In A Conditional Embrace, Kristyl D. Tift seeks to understand how Black queer women theater and film artists...

Uses an intersectional and intertextual methodology to present a rigorous yet accessible study of Black queer women artists in theater and film. In A Conditional Embrace, Kristyl D. Tift seeks to understand how Black queer women theater and film artists...

Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, mathematical reasoning, and more than two decades of teaching and research, Dr...

Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, and over two decades of teaching and research, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson introduces...

Looks closely at the mental health concerns of Black men in higher education and offers valuable resources and tools for addressing them.This volume assembles a diverse range of scholars, administrators, counselors, and other mental health professionals...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"There's a bridge of beautiful American prose--lyrical, powerful, fearlessly candid--running straight from James Baldwin to Thomas, who is...

First collection by a beloved thinker in Black anarchismOne of the enduring legacies of the Black Power Era is the turn by some revolutionaries toward a politics that questioned hierarchical leadership, patriarchy, and the role of the state in social...