What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages
Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance
What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19
Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists
The story of the Chambers brothers’ crack cocaine empire and the city that made them
How race influences religious engagement in politics
A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet
The new edition of the groundbreaking chronicle of forty years of black music in America
Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton
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
The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities
Reveals the deep roots, poetic structures, and uncommon artistry of rap poetry and performance
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?
Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created
A bold exploration of how we define improvised music
Remaps Robert Hayden’s proper place within African American poetry, and traces his legacy
In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released
Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany
Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon
A stunning visual chronicle of New York’s iconic performance venue
A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
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