Faculty Publications & Productions

Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
Hazel Carby
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
Students of the Dream: Resegregation in a Southern City
Kobena Mercer
2017
Travel & See: Black Diasporic Art Practices Since the 1980s
Kobena Mercer
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
A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama
Robert Stepto
2010
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
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Jacqueline Goldsby
2006
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
Kobena Mercer
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
Kobena Mercer
James Vanderzee
Kobena Mercer
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
Kobena Mercer
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