Black Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Rewriting the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

   Beyond Disciplinary and National Boundaries

   Edited by Robert Adams Jr.

   This volume considers the African Diaspora through the underexplored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches such as feminism and Atlantic studies, the authors explore the production of historical and contemporary identities and...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

   By Shawan M. Worsley

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images....

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Post-Racial Society is Here

   Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State

   By Wilbur C. Rich

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Conservatism in the Black Community

   To the Right and Misunderstood

   By Angela K. Lewis

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   Conservatism in the Black Community examines the contemporary meanings of Black Conservatism and its influence on black political behavior, providing a basis for understanding the impact this phenomenon has on black political behavior. Lewis analyzes conservatism within the black ideological...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Frederick Douglass

   Reformer and Statesman

   By L. Diane Barnes

   Series: Routledge Historical Americans

   Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, in February, 1818. From these humble beginnings, Douglass went on to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. He was the most prominent African American activist of the...

   Published August 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. Represent

   Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class

   By Patricia A. Banks

   Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

   Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity

   Celtic Soul Brothers

   By Lauren Onkey

   Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

   Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Black American Cinema

   Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies

   Edited by Mia Mask

   Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies,...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Black Politics Today

   The Era of Socioeconomic Transition

   By Theodore J. Davis Jr.

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   The late 1980s ushered in a new era of black politics, the socioeconomic transition era. Coming on the heels of the protest era and politics era, the current stage is characterized by the emergence of a new black middle class that came of age after the Civil Rights struggle. Although class still...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Education of Black Males in a 'Post-Racial' World

    Edited by Anthony L. Brown, Jamel K. Donnor

    The Education of Black Males in a ‘Post-Racial’ World examines the varied structural and discursive contexts of race, masculinities and class that shape the educational and social lives of Black males. The contributing authors take direct aim at the current discourses that construct Black males as...

    Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge