Publications

Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

Black Women and da ’Rona Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care By Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

Walter Allen

Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, 5) By Walter R. Allen, Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth, and Robert T. Teranishi
African American Education: Race, Community, Inequality and Achievement - A Tribute to Edgar G. Epps (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, 2) By Walter R. Allen, Margaret Beale Spencer, and Carla O'Connor

Bryonn Bain

Rebel Speak by Bryonn Bain

Rebel Speak

The Ugly Side of Beautiful: Rethinking Race and Prison in America By Bryonn Bain

Adam Bradley

The Poetry of Pop By Adam Bradley
The Anthology of Rap By Adam Bradley

Scot Brown

Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge By Scot Brown
Fighting for Us By Scot Brown

Tananarive Due

The Reformatory: A Novel
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights By Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due

Lorrie Frasure

Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs By Lorrie Frasure

Yogita Goyal

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature By Yogita Goyal
Look Inside Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery By Yogita Goyal

Runaway Genres

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Bad Mexicans By Kelly Lytle Hernández
City of Inmates By Kelly Lytle Hernández

Tyrone C. Howard

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms By Tyrone C. Howard
Expanding College Access for Urban Youth By Tyrone C. Howard, Jonli Tunstall, Terry K. Flennaugh

Darnell Hunt

Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities By Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon
Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America By Darnell Hunt

Marcus Anthony Hunter

Chocolate Cities by Marcus Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson

Ralina L. Joseph

Terence Keel

Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Radical Science By Terence Keel

Cheryl L. Keyes

Rap Music and Street Consciousness By Cheryl L. Keyes

Kyle Mays

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States By Kyle Mays

Uri McMillan

Embodied Avatars Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance By Uri McMillan

Alesia Montgomery

Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit By Alesia Montgomery

Safiya Umoja Noble

ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION By Safiya Umoja Noble

Sobukwe Odinga

Professor Scot Brown Presents His Paper at the Caribbean Philosophical Association in Martinique

Professor Scot Brown was invited to present a paper at the Caribbean Philosophical Association conference “Shifting the Geography of Reason: Fanon at 100”.

The conference commemorates the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth by celebrating his life and ideas, emphasizing their relevance today amid struggles against regressive and misanthropic tendencies. It aims to foster critical dialogue on expanding the boundaries of reason and envisioning a future rooted in dignity, freedom, and livability, encouraging contributions from scholars, researchers, activists, artists, and practitioners across multiple languages. The event invites participants to explore challenges and concepts inspired by Fanon’s thought in the context of contemporary global issues.

Scholars, researchers, activists, artists, and practitioners presented in Creole, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Prof Brown presented his paper Funk Music and Black Diasporic Exchange and Creative Inspiration at École Manétha Vété-Congolo at Dumaine in Francoise, Martinique, July 2025.

To read more about Dr. Scot Brown click here.

Cheryl L. Keyes’s “Sundiata Keita Overture” Wins Global Music Award

Cheryl L. Keyes, a professor of ethnomusicology and global jazz studies as well as the chair of the African American studies department, has recently been awarded a silver medal in the Global Music Awards for her work, “Sundiata Keita Overture.” This piece premiered on June 5 in Royce Hall during a multimedia event titled “Prelude to Juneteenth.”

Keyes’s “Sundiata Overture” narrates the story of Sundiata Keita (Soon-JA-ta Kae-EE-ta), the founder of the Malian Empire in the thirteenth century. Representatives from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music sat down with Dr. Keyes to discuss the inspiration behind the overture.

Click here to read more about this piece and her award…

Brenda Steveson

What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast? By Brenda E. Stevenson
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots By Brenda Stevenson

Caroline Streeter

Tragic No More By Caroline A. Streeter

Patricia Turner

Trash Talk- Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century By Patricia A. Turner
Crafted Lives By Patricia A. Turner

Jonli Tunstall

Expanding College Access for Urban Youth By Tyrone C. Howard, Jonli Tunstall, Terry K. Flennaugh