Thirty years of interviews with the provocative and often controversial creator of films including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls;and Vixen!

A cross-disciplinary analysis of how Black women writers theorize disability and Black womanhood

One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism

This book traces the journey of influential dancer, teacher, and choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas, from her early years as an emerging dancer to her leading work in bringing the joy of movement to dancers of all ages and abilities.

The long-overdue recognition of a scholar and the vibrant Brazilian folklore she documented

Unearthing Forgotten Values offers a practical corrective that restores human values to commercial archaeology by putting Indigenous communities first.

The first extensive study devoted to leading contemporary Irish poet Paula Meehan.

This debut novel by a Ghanaian writer answers the question, “When the souls of enslaved Black people flew away to freedom, where did they go?” with a queer Black femme take on traditional African religions and Vodou, highlighting the interdependence of magic and freedom. 

A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico

The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge

A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders

Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary

The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature

A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders

A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse

In Trees Dream of Water Leo Romero offers up ancestral history and personal journeys through the landscapes of northern New Mexico. The poetry weaves together a lyrical exploration of identity, memory, and the natural world, inviting readers on a captivating journey of self-discovery that spans Romero’s career.

This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.

This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other’s development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion.

In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. This is the first English translation of Dedé’s story, introducing new readers to a tragedy and international outcry that heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.

A guide to self-discovery for late discovered autistic women, written by Catherine Asta, an autistic psychotherapist and host of the hit podcast, “The Late Discovered Club'. Chapters include advice on masking, mental health, meltdowns and menopause, with practical tips on coping mechanisms and a hugely wide range of lived experience testimony.

An extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs

A business and leadership guide for neurodivergent leaders, and leaders of the future, with insight into finding your own leadership style, the unwritten rules of management, well being and self care, and holding open the door for others.