The Nine O'Clock Whistle
Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina
The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts
Soul of the Court
The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.
The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge
From the Projects to the Presidencies
My Journey to Higher Education Leadership
The compelling story of a self-made, driven, and industrious higher education professional
See Justice Done
The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition
An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law
Activism in the Name of God
Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
An extensive collection that highlights the contributions of often-forgotten Black women in the public sphere
Path to Grace
Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
Remarkable narratives from the heretofore unsung champions of the civil rights movement
Pieces of Freedom
The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller
A visual narrative of the Black emancipation experience, voiced through the sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American female artists
Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years
No Deed but Memory
An overdue engagement with the latter three decades of an abundant career
The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit
An essential reader of the powerful orations of an African American religious leader
Literacy in a Long Blues Note
Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years
Start a Riot!
Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry
A scholarly exploration of the union of art, writing, and protest during the 1960s
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction
A long-overdue history of short stories, place, and the significance of setting on racial representation
Performing Racial Uplift
E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era
A groundbreaking rediscovery of a classically trained innovator and powerful teacher who set milestones for African American singers and musicians
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
A biography of a trailblazer for abolition, gender equality, and social justice
Rediscovering Frank Yerby
Critical Essays
The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
A Historical Perspective
An inclusive survey from Frederick Douglass to the voices of Black Lives Matter
Black and More than Black
African American Fiction in the Post Era
An impressive reading of recent writers who question the meaning of blackness while also embracing an elective racial identity
Black and More than Black
African American Fiction in the Post Era
An impressive reading of recent writers who question the meaning of blackness while also embracing an elective racial identity
Labor Pains
New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South
A fresh consideration of the impact of black radicalism on black characters in southern modernism
Can’t Stand Still
Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance
The first biography of a singer who was once one of the most significant African American male vocalists in America
Aaron Henry
The Fire Ever Burning
The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi
The African American Sonnet
A Literary History
A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present
This Woman's Work
The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues
No Small Thing
The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
A history that redefines the beginning of the fight for black suffrage
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice
African American Haiku
Cultural Visions
The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haiku
Raised Up Down Yonder
Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama
A classic ethnographic study of rural children, their community, and their school
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist outlook
Searching for the New Black Man
Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
The role of women's bodies in the productions of ideal and progressive black masculinities in African American literature
Perspectives on Percival Everett
The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Fame to Infamy
Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace
Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons
The Postwar African American Novel
Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950
A rediscovery of forgotten talent overshadowed in the heyday of the African American novel
All Stories Are True
History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman
A mapping of the whole Wideman universe from novels to short stories to nonfiction
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
To Tell It Like It Is
The first collection of speeches from one of the movement's valiant firebrands
Borders of Equality
The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970
A study of the Baltimore NAACP branch and its vanguard efforts including a detailed examination of its longtime president, Lillie M. Jackson
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
The story of a nearly forgotten 1930s New Negro lawyer, whose contemporaries included Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and William Hastie
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People's Party
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
A study that highlights the central role African American women writers played in creating the lasting impact and image of the movement
Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line
Daisy Bates
Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
A biography of the courageous mentor to the Little Rock Nine
Unexpected Places
Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
An argument for a major remapping of the early African American literary landscape
The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello
A study of the famed actor's barrier-breaking Shakespearean performances
African American Preachers and Politics
The Careys of Chicago
The story of two African American ministers and their struggle to balance both sacred and secular worlds
The Other World of Richard Wright
Perspectives on His Haiku
The first scholarly consideration of the over eight hundred haiku written late in Wright’s life