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Slave Revolt on Screen

Slave Revolt on Screen

By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

Recipient of the 2021 Honorary Mention for the Haiti Book Prize from the Haitian Studies Association

In Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games author Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall ...

Rebirthing a Nation

Rebirthing a Nation

By Wendy K. Z. Anderson
Categories: Media Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgender and gay people, ...

Side by Side

Side by Side

By Marilisa Jiménez García
Foreword by Sonia Nieto
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Book Award

During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing ...

Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film

Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film

Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak & Zoe Jaques
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the 2023 Edited Book Award from the International Research Society for Children's Literature

Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta ...

Bohemian New Orleans

Bohemian New Orleans

By Jeff Weddle
Categories: Literature

Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize

In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans’s French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant. ...

Racial Terrorism

Racial Terrorism

By Marouf A. Hasian Jr. & Nicholas S. Paliewicz
Categories: Race And Ethnicity
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation’s first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing ...

Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture

Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture

By Derritt Mason
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ+ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred ...

No Future in This Country

No Future in This Country

By Andre E. Johnson
Categories: History
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Winner of the 2021 Book of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association
Winner of the 2021 Top Book Award from the National Communication Association's African American Communication and ...

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

By Anastasia Salter & Mel Stanfill
Categories: Media Studies

Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making—the “fanboy auteur. ” Figures like ...

City Son

City Son

By Wayne Dawkins
Categories: Media Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927–2002), a ...