Books by Riche Richardson

Riche Richardson examines how five iconic black women-Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyonce-defy racial stereotypes and construct new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States.

Presents a study of region, race, and gender that reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. This work is filled with insights into the region's role in producing hierarchies of race and gender in and beyond their African American contexts.