Seasons at Lakeside Dairy

By Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora

Opened in 1907 in Shreveport, Louisiana, by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins’s grandfather, Black dairy farmer Angus Bates, Lakeside Dairy was a rarity in the post-Reconstruction South. The dairy thrived despite t ...

Rupturing Rhetoric

Edited by Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, and Stephen E. Rahko
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Contributions by Maksim Bugrov, Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, Peter Ehrenhaus, Whitney Gent, Christopher Gilbert, Oscar Giner, J. Scott Jordan, Euni Kim, Melanie Loehwing, Jaclyn S. Olson, A. Susan ...

A Place to Live in Peace

By Evelyn L. Wilson
Categories: African American Studies

A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author ...

Shaolin Brew

By Troy D. Smith
Categories: Comics Studies

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical ...

Hot Equations

By Jesse S. Cohn
Categories: Popular Culture

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds ...

Superheroes in the Streets

By Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Categories: Media Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

The icon of the female protester and her alter-ego, the female superhero, fills screens in the news, in theaters, and in digital spaces. The female protester who is Muslim, though, has been subject to ...

Superheroes Beyond

Edited by Cormac McGarry, Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, ...

The Summer of 2020

By Andre E. Johnson & Amanda Nell Edgar
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests broke out in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States. National unrest led to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement a ...

Sounding Our Way Home

By Susan Miyo Asai
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans ...

Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II

Edited by Michael E. Lomax & Billy Hawkins
Categories: Sports And Recreation

Contributions by Amy Bass, Ashley Farmer, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Kurt Edward Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, and David K. Wiggins

In Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African American ...