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A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, African American Studies, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity

By Griffin Woodworth
Subjects: Music, Musicology, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

The legacy of the music legend

Hurt, Baby, Hurt

By William Walter Scott
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Starting the 1967 Detroit Rebellion

A Domestic Cook Book

Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen

By Malinda Russell
Subjects: Cookbooks, African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Food and Drink

Bringing new life to the oldest known published cookbook written by an African American woman

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

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

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

On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

By Philip Ewell
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Exposing the racial injustices of music theory

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

Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics

By R. Khari Brown, Ronald E Brown, and James S. Jackson
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Religion, African American Studies

How race influences religious engagement in politics

Collected Prose

By Robert Hayden
Edited by Frederick Glaysher
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet

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

Concordance

Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama

New Edition, With New Preface and Afterword

By Katherine Tate
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics, African American Studies
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Revised, With New Preface and Afterword
As black leaders have turned from political activism to formal politics, they have moved closer to the political center

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

Playing in the Shadows

Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature

By William H. Bridges
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, African American Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How do encounters with black literature, music, culture, and thinking invite postwar Japanese authors to re-envision the relationship between race and literature in the wake of world war?

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