Duke University Press Books

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53 Publications Found

Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
Speculative Light
Amy J. Elias
Feb 2025
Reproductive Racial Capitalism
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Reproductive Racial Capitalism
Jennifer L. Morgan
Apr 2024
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us
Willard Jenkins
Dec 2022
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Nomenclature
Dionne Brand
Oct 2022
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Subversive Habits
Shannen Dee Williams
May 2022
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Reckoning with Slavery
Jennifer L. Morgan
Jun 2021
The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity
The Life and Times of Louis Lomax
Thomas Aiello
Apr 2021
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
Black Diamond Queens
Maureen Mahon
Oct 2020
To Make Negro Literature
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To Make Negro Literature
Elizabeth McHenry
Sep 2020
Dub: Finding Ceremony
Dub
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Feb 2020
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Patricia Hill Collins
Aug 2019
The Romare Bearden Reader
The Romare Bearden Reader
Robert G. O’Meally
Jun 2019
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Captivating Technology
Ruha Benjamin
Jun 2019
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
Vexy Thing
Imani Perry
Sep 2018
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
The Blue Clerk
Dionne Brand
Aug 2018
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
Little Man, Little Man
James Baldwin
Aug 2018
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being)
Stolen Life (consent not to be a single being)
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Ezili’s Mirrors
Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Feb 2018
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (English and French Edition)
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
Louise Thompson Patterson
Keith Gilyard
Oct 2017
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
South of Pico
Kellie Jones
Apr 2017
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
The Revolution Has Come
Robyn C. Spencer
Dec 2016
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
In the Wake
Christina Sharpe
Nov 2016
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Spill
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Oct 2016
Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones
Love, H
Hettie Jones
Oct 2016
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Flyboy 2
Greg Tate
Aug 2016
South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
South Side Girls
Marcia Chatelain
Apr 2015
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
Go-Go Live
Natalie Hopkinson
May 2012
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded
Kellie Jones
May 2011
African Rhythms: The Autobiography Of Randy Weston
African Rhythms
Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins
Oct 2010
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects
Monstrous Intimacies
Christina Sharpe
Sep 2010
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
Thiefing Sugar
Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Aug 2010
B Jenkins (Refiguring American Music)
Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party
Liberated Territory
Yohuru Williams
Jan 2009
Our Caribbean: A Gathering Of Lesbian And Gay Writing From The Antilles
Our Caribbean
Thomas Glave
Jun 2008
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx
Carole Boyce-Davies
Mar 2008
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds
Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland
Oct 2006
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
Bodies in Dissent
Daphne A. Brooks
Jul 2006
The Last ’Darky’: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
The Last ’Darky’
Louis Chude-Sokei
Jan 2006
We Flew Over The Bridge: The Memoirs Of Faith Ringgold
We Flew Over The Bridge
Faith Ringgold
Mar 2005
Dark Designs and Visual Culture
Dark Designs and Visual Culture
Michele Wallace
Dec 2004
Prophets of the Hood-PB
Prophets of the Hood-PB
Imani Perry
Nov 2004
Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race
Right to Rock
Maureen Mahon
Jun 2004
Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art
Something All Our Own
Grant Hill
Dec 2003
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
Appropriating Blackness
E. Patrick Johnson
Aug 2003
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists)
Forgotten Readers
Elizabeth McHenry
Oct 2002
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Forgotten Readers
Elizabeth McHenry
Oct 2002
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance
Richard Bruce Nugent
May 2002
Passed on: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial
Passed on
Karla FC Holloway
Feb 2002
George Washington Williams: A Biography
George Washington Williams
John Hope Franklin
May 1983

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