African American Life Series

Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture

Amy Maria Kenyon

A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom.

The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

Edited and with an Introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick  •  Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.

The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young

Edited by Bill McGraw and others

New edition of the popular pocket-sized collection of former Detroit mayor Coleman Young’s most memorable quotes.

Gettin’ Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation

Kermit E. Campbell

A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop.

Manipulating the Sacred: Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé

Mikelle S. Omari-Tunkara

The first art historical study of Yorùbá-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author’s long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.

“Look for Me All Around You”: Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance

Edited and with an Introduction by Louis J. Parascandola

This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance.