Set around an Arab-American café in Los Angeles, the novel follows Sirine as an Iraqi exile enters her world and draws out questions of love, memory, and belonging.

Food, love, and exile meet over the counter of a Los Angeles café.

David Cole argues that post-9/11 policies toward immigrants and noncitizens repeat old double standards and endanger constitutional freedoms.

A sharp argument about whose freedoms are eroded in the name of security.

Drawing on interviews with Black women, the book examines how race and gender pressures push them to present different selves in different settings.

A portrait of the pressure to “shift” identities across contexts.

Set on a university campus, the novel follows a black professor as racial tensions, power struggles, and personal relationships collide around him.

Race and power cross in the enclosed world of a university campus.

A comparative study that maps Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American fiction into a broader multicultural view of modern American literature.

A panoramic map of multicultural American literature.

This poetry collection moves through longing, memory, and loss in compact, resonant pieces.

Poems that quietly gather the shape of what has been lost.

When Yumi Fuller returns to her Idaho hometown, she is pulled into a family story shaped by potato farming, GMO controversy, and unresolved history.

A prodigal daughter returns to confront family, farming, and GMO politics.

A bilingual English-Spanish poetry collection in which ritual, memory, and identity are woven together line by line.

Poems that retie cultural threads in two languages.

A cultural history that links jazz in the 1960s to politics, Black freedom struggles, and the broader social upheaval of the era.

Jazz history rewritten as social and political history.

A fictionalized memoir of Owen 'Owney' Madden, following his rise from a Hell's Kitchen gang leader to a Prohibition-era bootlegger who moved among New York's criminal and political circles.

A gangster saga framed as a fictionalized life story.