Books in the New Black Studies Series series

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

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

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

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

Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships

Recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. This title follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad.

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

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.

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.

A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the energies at the nexus of sexuality and race. Contributors: Marlon M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz, Adrienne D. Davis, Pierre Dominguez, David B. Green Jr., Jillian Hernandez, Cheryl D. Hicks, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune, Mireille Miller-Young, Angelique Nixon, Shana L. Redmond, Matt Richardson, L. H. Stallings, Anya M. Wallace, and Erica Lorraine Williams

Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe

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 the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires.

Focusing on institutional history, this book explores the Pekin Theater's philosophy of hiring only African American staff, its embrace of multi-racial upper class audiences, and its ready assumption of roles as diverse as community center, social club, and fundraising instrument.

Making available an invaluable perspective on African American life, this volume represents a publication of immense historical and literary importance.

Expands and enrichs African diaspora history in the Americas

A salient take on psychoanalysis as a cultural phenomenon, intersecting with African American literature

Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe

Fresh perspectives on the black diaspora's global histories

Deals with black women who were not slaves during the era of slavery.

Offers perspectives on black history - its scholarship and pedagogy, scholars and interpreters, and evolution as a profession. This book discusses various issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history, the 20th century black historical enterprise, and the teaching of African American history for the 21st century.