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Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

By Jonathan Shandell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater

The Revolution Will Be Improvised

The Intimacy of Cultural Activism

By Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

Owning My Masters (Mastered)

The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions

By A.D. Carson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Music, Musicology
Series: Tracking Pop

Using hip hop to create new theory

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom.

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

For the Culture

Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

By Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey & Adolphus Belk
Subjects: Music, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Women's Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance

By Nicole Hodges Persley
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies, Music

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

Land of Opportunity

One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack

By William M. Adler
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes

The story of the Chambers brothers’ crack cocaine empire and the city that made them

A Change Is Gonna Come

Music, Race & the Soul of America

Revised Edition

By Craig Werner
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Music, Race and Ethnicity

The new edition of the groundbreaking chronicle of forty years of black music in America

Clothed in Meaning

Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

By Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton

i used to love to dream

By A.D. Carson
Subjects: Music, Musicology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Fourteen tracks that use hip-hop creative and compositional practice to interrogate the idea of home

Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera

By Ann Arnett Ferguson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Law, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities

Rhymes in the Flow

How Rappers Flip the Beat

By Macklin Smith & Aurko Joshi
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies, Music, Popular Music, African American Studies

Reveals the deep roots, poetic structures, and uncommon artistry of rap poetry and performance

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Jackie Ormes

The First African American Woman Cartoonist

By Nancy Goldstein
Subjects: Biography, African American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Art

Now in paperback—the biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created

Robert Hayden in Verse

New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era

By Derik Smith
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Religion, American Studies

Remaps Robert Hayden’s proper place within African American poetry, and traces his legacy

The Harvest of American Racism

The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967

Edited by Robert Shellow
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Political History

In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released

Uncle Tom's Cabins

The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

By Tracy C. Davis & Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon

Ellen Stewart Presents

Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre

By Cindy Rosenthal
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, American Studies, African American Studies, Biography

A stunning visual chronicle of New York’s iconic performance venue

 

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Class Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

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

 

I Hear a Symphony

Motown and Crossover R&B

By Andrew Flory
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Investigates how the music of Motown Records functioned as the center of the company’s creative and economic impact worldwide

Hazel Scott

The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC

By Karen Chilton
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Jazz

The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate

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