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Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination cover

Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black Feminist Imagination

Mali D. Collins

Forthcoming

Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow cover

Brave Humanism: Black Women Rewriting the Human in the Age of Jane Crow

Mollie Godfrey

Forthcoming

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking cover

Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking

R. J. Millhouse

Forthcoming

Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life cover

Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life

Seulghee Lee

2025

On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power cover

On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power

Michelle Bumatay

2025

Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix cover

Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix

Nghana tamu Lewis

2025

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States cover

Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States

Asha Jeffers

2025

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction cover

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction

Cassandra L. Jones

2024

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition cover

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

Laura Elizabeth Vrana

2024

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State cover

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State

Roberta Wolfson

2024

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction cover

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins 

2024

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas cover

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman

2024

Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South cover

Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South

Linda Janet Holmes

2023

Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings cover

Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings

Keenan Norris

2023

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation cover

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Lisa Biggs

2022

Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures cover

Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures

Jose O. Fernandez

2022

We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland cover

We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland

Ric S. Sheffield

2022

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance cover

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance

Alison Rose Reed

2022

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination cover

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

 Zachary F. Price

2022

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought cover

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought

Roger A. Sneed

2021

Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project cover

Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project

J. J. Butts

2021

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color cover

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color

Joy Sanchez-Taylor

2021

Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka cover

Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka

Edited by Jean-Philippe Marcoux

2021

Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation cover

Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation

John Murillo III

2021

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century cover

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek

2020

Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror cover

Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror

Edited by Dawn Keetley

2020

Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement cover

Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement

Isiah Lavender III

2019

Staging Black Fugitivity cover

Staging Black Fugitivity

Stacie Selmon McCormick

2019

The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction cover

The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

2019

Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature cover

Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature

Felice D. Blake

2018

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance cover

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance

Christina N. Baker

2018

Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song cover

Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

Tara T. Green

2018

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity cover

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity

Aaron Ngozi Oforlea

2017

Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” cover

Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army”

Johari Jabir

2017

Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression cover

Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

Marlo D. David

2016

The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora cover

The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora

Vivian Nun Halloran

2016

Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment cover

Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

2015

Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture cover

Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture

Douglas Robinson

2013

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution cover

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

Matt Richardson

2013

Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction cover

Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction

Maha Marouan

2013

The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993 cover

The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993

Michael DeRell Hill

2013

Hemingway and the Black Renaissance cover

Hemingway and the Black Renaissance

Edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs

2012

A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law cover

A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law

D. Quentin Miller

2012

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 cover

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945

Timothy R. Buckner

2011

Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s cover

Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s

Jon Woodson

2010

Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers cover

Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers

Taylor Hagood

2010

Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism cover

Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism

Jürgen E. Grandt

2009

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater cover

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater

Paula Marie Seniors

2009

Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays cover

Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays

Dana A. Williams, ed.

2009

Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus cover

Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus

Margo Natalie Crawford

2008

Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory cover

Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory

Marleen S. Barr

2008

A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860–1930 cover

A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860–1930

Jack S. Blocker

2008

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film cover

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film

Peter Caster

2008

The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature cover

The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature

April C. E. Langley

2007

Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics cover

Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics

Chiji Akọma

2007

Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture cover

Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture

L. H. Stallings

2007

Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature cover

Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature

Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, ed.

2006

Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku cover

Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku

Yoshinobu Hakutani

2006

African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915–1930 cover

African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915–1930

William W. Giffin

2005

Re-Forming the Past: History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative cover

Re-Forming the Past: History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative

A. Timothy Spaulding

2005

Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative cover

Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative

Jürgen E. Grandt

2005

“In the Light of Likeness—Transformed”: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest cover

“In the Light of Likeness—Transformed”: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest

Dana A. Williams

2005

Executing Race: Early American Women’s Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law cover

Executing Race: Early American Women’s Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law

Sharon M. Harris

2005

“The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance cover

“The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance

Christina Accomando

2001

Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot cover

Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot

Richard C. Moreland

1999

The Voices of Toni Morrison cover

The Voices of Toni Morrison

Barbara Hill Rigney

1990