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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)
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)
Fit Citizens
(2023)
Trafficking in Antiblackness
(2023)
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
(2022)
Black Patience
Julius Fleming, Jr.
(2022)
Disabilities of the Color Line
(2022)
Amphibious Subjects
(2022)
The Mark of Slavery
(2021)
Soundscapes of Liberation
(2021)
Finding Afro-Mexico
(2021)
Kwame Nkrumah
(2021)
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
(2021)
Otherwise Worlds
Ashon Crawley
(2020)
Designing a New Tradition
(2020)
The Lonely Letters
Ashon Crawley
(2020)
Becoming Human
(2020)
Phonograpic Memories
Njelle Hamilton
(2019)
Age of Concrete
(2019)
Building the Black Arts Movement
(2019)
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
(2019)
Masquerading Politics
(2018)
Singing Yoruba Christianity
(2018)
We Face the Dawn
(2018)
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)
Black for a Day
(2017)
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
(2017)
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)
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)
Black Woman Reformer
(2015)
Non-Sovereign Futures
(2015)
London is the Place for Me
(2015)
Tropics of Haiti
(2015)
Stones of Contention
(2014)
Historically Black
(2014)
Schooling Jim Crow
(2014)
Conflict Bodies
(2014)
The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
Deborah E. McDowell
(2013)
Music, Performance and African Identities
(2013)
Living the Hiplife
(2013)
The Muse is Music
(2013)
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)
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)
Talk with You Like a Woman
(2010)
Coming of Age in Utopia
(2009)
Our Living Manhood
(2009)
Disturbing the Peace
(2009)
African American Midwifery in the South
Gertrude Fraser
(2009)
Terror in the Heart of Freedom
(2009)
Enterprising Women
(2009)
Criminal Injustice
(2009)
Strategies for Survival
(2009)
American Muslim Women
(2008)
American Africans in Ghana
Kevin Gaines
(2008)
Race and Democracy
(2008)
Segregation's Science
(2008)
Chicago's New Negroes
(2007)
Wandering a Gendered Wilderness
(2007)
This Little Light of Mine
(2007)
The Nature of Entrustment
(2007)
Experiencing Mount Vernon
(2006)
Dividing Lines
(2006)
Blowin’ Hot and Cool
(2006)
The Segregated Scholar
(2006)
"New Negroes from Africa”
(2006)
A Little Taste of Freedom
(2005)
Democratic Discourses
(2005)
Righteous Propagation
(2004)
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960
(2004)
Bitter Fruits of Bondage
(2004)
The Rebellious Slave
(2003)
Paradise and Plantation
(2003)
Feeding Desire
(2003)
The Claims of Kinfolk
(2003)
Social Death and Resurrection
John E. Mason
(2003)
Slavery and Identity
(2003)
Women of Fire and Spirit
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
(2002)
Divided We Stand
(2002)
A Different Day
(2002)
Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
(2002)
The Underneath of Things
(2001)
Migrants Against Slavery
(2001)
The Adventures of Amos 'N' Andy
(2001)
Bittersweet Legacy
(2001)
The Union League Movement in the Deep South
(2000)
Black Prisoners and their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
(2000)
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction
(2000)
Rituals of Race
(1999)
To Joy My Freedom
(1998)
Militant Mediator
(1998)
Just My Soul Responding
(1998)
Inventing Masks
(1998)
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin
Deborah E. McDowell
(1998)
Fire This Time
(1997)
Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa
(1997)
Contempt and Pity
(1997)
Enterprising Southerners
(1997)
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)
A New Plantation South
(1996)
Days of Hope
(1996)
Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad
(1996)
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)
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)
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
(1993)
Cultivation and Culture
(1993)
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
(1992)
Emancipation in the Virginia Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870
(1992)
The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89
(1992)
Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History
(1991)
Simple Decency and Common Sense
(1991)
The Novels of Alex LA Guma
(1990)
Freedom Summer
(1990)
Soldiers, Traders, and Slaves
(1990)
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
(1990)
A Little God
(1990)
Faulkner's "Negro"
(1983)
New Directions in Civil Rights Studies
Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
Deborah E. McDowell