African American/Black History

Publication date: 2019
This anthology explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take in honoring and protecting the success of African Americans in the U.S.

Publication date: 2022
Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as “antagonistic cooperation.” Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. This book shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide a new history of Black creativity and aesthetics.

Publication date: 2019
This collection's fascinating spectrum of topics reveals how Seventies black cultural production anchors important contemporary debates in black feminism and other issues while spurring the black imagination to thrive amidst abject social and political conditions.

Publication date: 2023
This book illuminates the figure of the Black cowboy while examining the intersection of African American film history and the western.

Publication date: 2019
This book traces the history of African American poetry from its origins in the transatlantic slave trade, to present day hip-hop.

Publication date: 2020
Tells the story of black performers and their fellow black theatrical artists, from the early nineteenth century to the dawn of the civil rights era, chronicling how African Americans overcame many obstacles to enrich the nation's theater in countless ways.