The classic text on American musical expression, updated with four new chapters

A scholarly exploration of the iconic comics artist

An inside view of improv comedy in Chicago

Recent scholarship that expands the boundaries of Paul Gilroy'sThe Black Atlantic

A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in c...

A critical exploration of fictional American cities in popular culture

Literary explorations into the radical, hopeful racial futures imagined by science fiction

A magnum opus from a preeminent folklore scholar on cultural practice and why people need tradition

A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in ...

An examination of the directorial labor of one of the only women filmmakers working in second-wav...

The first book to study the African American and Communist relationship in its national and inter...

An update of one of the indispensable political and social histories of African Americans since W...