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Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

For the Culture

Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

By Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey & Adolphus Belk
Subjects: Music, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Women's Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

By Nicole Hodges Persley
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies, Music

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

Land of Opportunity

One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack

By William M. Adler
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes

The story of the Chambers brothers’ crack cocaine empire and the city that made them

Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics

By R. Khari Brown, Ronald E Brown, and James S. Jackson
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Religion, African American Studies

How race influences religious engagement in politics

Collected Prose

By Robert Hayden
Edited by Frederick Glaysher
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet

A Change Is Gonna Come

Music, Race & the Soul of America

Revised Edition

By Craig Werner
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Music, Race and Ethnicity

The new edition of the groundbreaking chronicle of forty years of black music in America

Clothed in Meaning

Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

By Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton

Concordance

Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

New Edition, With New Preface and Afterword

By Katherine Tate
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics, African American Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Revised, With New Preface and Afterword
As black leaders have turned from political activism to formal politics, they have moved closer to the political center

Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera

By Ann Arnett Ferguson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Law, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities

Rhymes in the Flow

How Rappers Flip the Beat

By Macklin Smith & Aurko Joshi
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies, Music, Popular Music, African American Studies

Reveals the deep roots, poetic structures, and uncommon artistry of rap poetry and performance

Playing in the Shadows

Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature

By William H. Bridges
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, African American Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How do encounters with black literature, music, culture, and thinking invite postwar Japanese authors to re-envision the relationship between race and literature in the wake of world war?

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Jackie Ormes

The First African American Woman Cartoonist

By Nancy Goldstein
Subjects: Biography, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art

Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created

Intents and Purposes

Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation

By Eric Lewis
Subjects: Music, African American Studies

A bold exploration of how we define improvised music

Robert Hayden in Verse

New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era

By Derik Smith
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Religion, American Studies

Remaps Robert Hayden’s proper place within African American poetry, and traces his legacy

The Harvest of American Racism

The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967

Edited by Robert Shellow
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Political History

In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released

White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By Priscilla Dionne Layne
Subjects: German Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Uncle Tom's Cabins

The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

By Tracy C. Davis & Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon

Ellen Stewart Presents

Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre

By Cindy Rosenthal
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, American Studies, African American Studies, Biography

A stunning visual chronicle of New York’s iconic performance venue

 

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

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