Analyzing works of film and literature by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange, this book explores how Afro-Atlantic religion intersects with themes of resilience in Black femininity and womanhood.

How the concept of ṭarab has impacted music and culture across the Islamic world.

Exploring the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba from 1940 to 1952, this book provides the first comprehensive history of modern Cuban art during the nation’s only democratic period.

This book is the first to document the story of Amy Mallard, who sought justice through the legal system for the 1948 lynching of her husband in Georgia and later became an advocate for civil rights at the national level.

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and lesser-known Asian and Asian American speculative fiction, film, television, anime, art, music, journalism, architecture, state-sponsored policy and infrastructural projects, and the now-dominant China Panic.

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and lesser-known Asian and Asian American speculative fiction, film, television, anime, art, music, journalism, architecture, state-sponsored policy and infrastructural projects, and the now-dominant China Panic.

Steven Spielberg’s Children is the first book to investigate children, childhood, and Spielberg’s employment of child actors together and in depth. Through lively readings of both the celebrated performances he elicits from his young stars as well as less discussed roles this book shows children to be key players in the director’s articulation of childhood since the 1970s.
 

An invaluable history of spiritual singing groups and how their tours helped build historically Black colleges and universities in the South

This book demonstrates that James Joyce’s Ulysses is a book that imitates the workings of the human mind, connecting close readings of the novel’s text to psychological theories of Joyce’s time.