Books in the Black Studies and Critical Thinking series

Explores the ways that children of Black immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean come to understand their racial and ethnic identities, given the socialization messages they receive from their parents and their experiences with institutionalized racism and racial hierarchies in a US middle school.

The movement and dispersion of African ascendant peoples around the globe has been historically rooted in struggle and oppression. The issues that arise include naming, African identities, cultural memory, and what methodologies best serve the work we do on behalf of African people. (Im)migrations, Relations, and Identities thoughtfully researches and discusses these issues.

This volume illustrates the journeys that Black pre-service teachers travel in their attempts to become educators. By looking at their educational life histories - their schooling experiences, teaching philosophies, and personal motivation - this book discovers what compels them to become teachers and the struggles and successes they encounter along the way.

Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem - earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she remains the only black female gangster to run an operation of that size.

The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment.

Portraits of Anti-racist Alternative Routes to Teaching in the U.S. portrays how a critical teacher development framework for Teachers of Color can be applied to alternative routes to teaching and professional development program initiatives to actualize commitments to communities, social justice and visionaries.

Portraits of Anti-racist Alternative Routes to Teaching in the U.S. portrays how a critical teacher development framework for Teachers of Color can be applied to alternative routes to teaching and professional development program initiatives to actualize commitments to communities, social justice and visionaries.

What does it mean to lead while Black in America?

The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and reinvision Black Studies through a critical lens.

The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and reinvision Black Studies through a critical lens.

Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, Revised Edition is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural south.

Research Methods in Africana Studies, Revised Edition is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general.

Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions: Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience offers a unique perspective on the complexities of being a Black mother addicted to crack, powder cocaine, heroin, and crank.

States of Grace: Counterstories of a Black Woman in the Academy reveals the dynamic, mutli-dimensional presence of a scholar who brings her wholeness into her scholarship and teaching, providing insights and guidance along the way.

Called to Sankofa is a collection of Hurricane Katrina survival stories by African American education leaders in New Orleans.

Called to Sankofa is a collection of Hurricane Katrina survival stories by African American education leaders in New Orleans.

Is God Funky or What?: Black Biblical Culture and Contemporary Popular Music complicates the traditional categories of sacred and secular by exposing religious rhetoric of contemporary popular black music and revealing a biblical-based spirituality that forms the cultural context.

Brothers in Charge: Black Male Leadership in Higher Education and Public Health offers the views of a number of black males who have attained leadership positions against many odds in higher education or in public health with a unique perspective.

Brothers in Charge: Black Male Leadership in Higher Education and Public Health offers the views of a number of black males who have attained leadership positions against many odds in higher education or in public health with a unique perspective.

Black Men's Studies offers an approach to understanding the lives and the self determination of men of African descent in the U.S. context.

African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge.