Faculty Publications & Productions

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Marlene Daut
2025
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Marlene Daut
2024
Yale and Slavery: A History
David Blight
2024
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
Elijah Anderson
2022
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton
2021
Liner Notes for the Revolution The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks
2021
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
2021
Race and Performance After Repetition
Shane Vogel
2020
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
Hazel Carby
2019
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (The New Urban Atlantic) 1st ed. 2017 Edition
Marlene Daut
2019
Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life
Tavia Nyong'o
2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David Blight
2018
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
Edward Rugemer
2018
StolenTime
Shane Vogel
2018
Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City
2017
Travel & See: Black Diasporic Art Practices Since the 1980s
2016
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
aimee m cox
2015
These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
Glenda Gilmore
2015
Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing
2015
The Souls of Black Folk
2015
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
2015
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Jacqueline Goldsby
2015
Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control
2014
The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time
2014
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (Difference Incorporated)
Erica Edwards
2012
A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama
Robert Stepto
2010
Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 15)
Kaiama L. Glover
2010
The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance
Shane Vogel
2009
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
Crystal Feimster
2009
The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
Edward Rugemer
2008
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
Daphne A. Brooks
2006
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Jacqueline Goldsby
2006
Jeff Buckley's Grace (33 1/3)
Daphne A. Brooks
2005
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Glenda Gilmore
1996
American Sublime
Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941
Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers
Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership
A Place on the Corner: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Elijah Anderson
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escapted to Freedom
David Blight
Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male
Elijah Anderson
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
David Blight
Antebellum Dream Book
Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries
Elijah Anderson
Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Elijah Anderson
Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Glenda Gilmore
Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
Robert Stepto
Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Isaac Julien
James Vanderzee
Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights
Glenda Gilmore
Love & Responsibility: The Dawn Davies Collection
Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era
Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David Blight
Romare Bearden: In the Modernist Tradition
Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community
Elijah Anderson
The Black Interior
The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time
The Conjure Stories
Robert Stepto
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
Elijah Anderson
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
The Light of the World: A Memoir
Venus Hottentot