Asian-Cajun Fusion

By Carl A. Brasseaux & Donald W. Davis
Foreword by Rex H. Caffey
Categories: Louisiana
Series: America's Third Coast Series

Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou ...

Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland

By Erik Smalhout
Edited by Erika Berry
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout’s father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands ...

Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes

By Josef Benson & Doug Singsen
Categories: Comics Studies

Shortlisted Finalist for the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic ...

Conversations with LeAnne Howe

Edited by Kirstin L. Squint
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with LeAnne Howe is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond our national ...

The Real Ambassadors

By Keith Hatschek
Foreword by Yolande Bavan
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Winner of the 2023 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award
Recipient of a 2023 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound ...

Black Man in the Netherlands

By Francio Guadeloupe
Categories: Caribbean Studies

Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist by vocation, he is a keen observer by honed habit. In his new book, he wields both personal and anthropological ...

Performing Racial Uplift

By Juanita Karpf
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era, Juanita Karpf rediscovers the career of Black activist ...

Taking a Stand

Edited by Jared N. Champion & Peter C. Kunze
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Jared N. Champion, Miriam M. Chirico, Thomas Clark, David R. Dewberry, Christopher J. Gilbert, David Gillota, Kathryn Kein, Rob King, Rebecca Krefting, Peter C. Kunze, Linda Mizejewski, ...

Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam

By Stan BH Tan-Tangbau & Quyền Văn Minh
Foreword by Yamashita Yosuke
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

Shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2022

Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one ...

Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought

By Kristin Waters
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Named a 2022 finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History from the African American Intellectual History Society

Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought tells ...