Books in the New Black Studies Series series

Assessing the roles of religion, politics, and class in the golden decade of black business

An enriching, interpretive mode that focuses on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for investigation. This journey of radical new process invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates.

A thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States.

Presents early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital centrepiece of Black thought and expression

A collection of stories of black women who were not slaves during the era of slavery.

Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe

Representing the sexuality of black middle class women in contemporary popular culture

Presents early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital centrepiece of Black thought and expression

A thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States.

Expands and enrichs African diaspora history in the Americas

An elaborate articulation of the connections between jazz, poetry and gender

Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe

Fresh perspectives on the black diaspora's global histories

Argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection in American history.

Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in "their place."Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to "post-racial" America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards.Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.

Investigates the institutions and streetscapes of Black Chicago that fueled an entire literary and artistic movement.

The first full-length critical study of lynching plays in American culture

A provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiences