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The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
Robin Means Coleman
(2025)
Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation
Tiffany Barber
(2025)
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
Andrew Kahrl
(2024)
Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency and Possibility in Everyday Digital Practice
Ashleigh Greene Wade
(2024)
Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
(2024)
Fit Citizens
(2023)
Trafficking in Antiblackness
(2023)
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
Robin Means Coleman
(2023)
Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present
Robin Means Coleman
(2023)
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
(2022)
Black Patience
Julius Fleming, Jr.
(2022)
Disabilities of the Color Line
(2022)
Amphibious Subjects
(2022)
Kwame Nkrumah
(2021)
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
(2021)
The Mark of Slavery
(2021)
Soundscapes of Liberation
(2021)
Finding Afro-Mexico
(2021)
The Lonely Letters
Ashon Crawley
(2020)
Becoming Human
(2020)
Otherwise Worlds
Ashon Crawley
(2020)
Designing a New Tradition
(2020)
Phonograpic Memories
Njelle Hamilton
(2019)
Age of Concrete
(2019)
Building the Black Arts Movement
(2019)
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
(2019)
Medical Bondage
(2018)
An Ethnography of Hunger
(2018)
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
(2018)
Albert Luthuli
Robert Trent Vinson
(2018)
The Common Wind
(2018)
Masquerading Politics
(2018)
Singing Yoruba Christianity
(2018)
We Face the Dawn
(2018)
Black for a Day
(2017)
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
(2017)
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
(2016)
The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Andrew Kahrl
(2016)
A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865
(2016)
Keep On Keeping On The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia
(2016)
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
Ashon Crawley
(2016)
Tropics of Haiti
(2015)
Black Woman Reformer
(2015)
Non-Sovereign Futures
(2015)
London is the Place for Me
(2015)
Conflict Bodies
(2014)
Stones of Contention
(2014)
Historically Black
(2014)
Schooling Jim Crow
(2014)
Living the Hiplife
(2013)
The Muse is Music
(2013)
The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
Deborah E. McDowell
(2013)
Music, Performance and African Identities
(2013)
The Americans Are Coming!
Robert Trent Vinson
(2012)
Doing Time in the Depression
(2012)
Working the Diaspora
(2012)
The Predicament of Blackness
(2012)
The Properties of Violence
(2012)
Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy
(2012)
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
(2012)
Freedom Has a Face
(2012)
Gabriel's Conspiracy
(2012)
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
(2012)
Words, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans
(2012)
Talk with You Like a Woman
(2010)
Terror in the Heart of Freedom
(2009)
Enterprising Women
(2009)
Criminal Injustice
(2009)
Strategies for Survival
(2009)
Coming of Age in Utopia
(2009)
Our Living Manhood
(2009)
Disturbing the Peace
(2009)
African American Midwifery in the South
Gertrude Fraser
(2009)
Segregation's Science
(2008)
American Muslim Women
(2008)
American Africans in Ghana
Kevin Gaines
(2008)
Race and Democracy
(2008)
This Little Light of Mine
(2007)
The Nature of Entrustment
(2007)
Chicago's New Negroes
(2007)
Wandering a Gendered Wilderness
(2007)
Blowin’ Hot and Cool
(2006)
The Segregated Scholar
(2006)
"New Negroes from Africa”
(2006)
Experiencing Mount Vernon
(2006)
Dividing Lines
(2006)
Democratic Discourses
(2005)
A Little Taste of Freedom
(2005)
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960
(2004)
Bitter Fruits of Bondage
(2004)
Righteous Propagation
(2004)
Paradise and Plantation
(2003)
Feeding Desire
(2003)
The Claims of Kinfolk
(2003)
Social Death and Resurrection
John E. Mason
(2003)
Slavery and Identity
(2003)
The Rebellious Slave
(2003)
A Different Day
(2002)
Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
(2002)
Women of Fire and Spirit
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
(2002)
Divided We Stand
(2002)
Migrants Against Slavery
(2001)
The Adventures of Amos 'N' Andy
(2001)
Bittersweet Legacy
(2001)
The Underneath of Things
(2001)
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction
(2000)
The Union League Movement in the Deep South
(2000)
Black Prisoners and their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
(2000)
Rituals of Race
(1999)
Inventing Masks
(1998)
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin
Deborah E. McDowell
(1998)
To Joy My Freedom
(1998)
Militant Mediator
(1998)
Just My Soul Responding
(1998)
Enterprising Southerners
(1997)
Fire This Time
(1997)
Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa
(1997)
Contempt and Pity
(1997)
A New Plantation South
(1996)
Days of Hope
(1996)
Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad
(1996)
The Work of Reconstruction
(1996)
Uplifting the Race
Kevin Gaines
(1996)
Peripheral Migrants
(1996)
A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas
(1996)
Silver Rights
(1996)
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
(1996)
Bond of Iron
(1995)
Love and Theft
(1995)
Ancestral House
(1995)
"The Changing Same" Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory
Deborah E. McDowell
(1995)
Local People
(1995)
Virginia Landmarks of Black History Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places
(1995)
Virginia Landmarks of Black History
(1995)
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
(1993)
Cultivation and Culture
(1993)
Emancipation in the Virginia Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870
(1992)
The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89
(1992)
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
(1992)
Simple Decency and Common Sense
(1991)
Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History
(1991)
Soldiers, Traders, and Slaves
(1990)
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
(1990)
A Little God
(1990)
The Novels of Alex LA Guma
(1990)
Freedom Summer
(1990)
Faulkner's "Negro"
(1983)
Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
Deborah E. McDowell
New Directions in Civil Rights Studies