Slavery at Sea

Sowande M Mustakeem

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time... Lees meer

From Slave Cabins to the White House

Koritha Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional... Lees meer

Jazz Internationalism

John Lowney

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war, communist revolution, Red Scares, and the Black Migration. The tumult bred disagre... Lees meer

Black Queer Freedom

Gershun Avilez

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being s... Lees meer

Ain't I an Anthropologist

Jennifer L Freeman Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's li... Lees meer

Grounds of Engagement

Stephane Robolin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• Part literary history, part cultural study, Grounds of Engagement examines the relationships and exchanges between black South African and African Ame... Lees meer

The Poetics of Difference

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muhol... Lees meer

Black Europe and the African Diaspora

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This inter... Lees meer

Africans to Spanish America

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexic... Lees meer

The Black Intellectual Tradition

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States hav... Lees meer

The Poetics of Difference

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muhol... Lees meer

Reading Pleasures

Tara A Bynum

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also br... Lees meer

Gendered Resistance

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slave... Lees meer

Freud Upside Down

Badia Sahar Ahad

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sa... Lees meer

The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929

Christopher Robert Reed

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describe... Lees meer

A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Cornelius L Bynum

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• A. Philip Randolph's career as a trade unionist and civil rights activist fundamentally shaped the course of black protest in the mid-twentieth centur... Lees meer

Reimagining Liberation

Annette K Joseph-Gabriel

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these wome... Lees meer

Activist Sentiments

P Gabrielle Foreman

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded ... Lees meer