A study of the contemporary African American novel that traces its folk roots and its modern literary branches. It surveys major works to show how themes, forms, and cultural concerns develop across the field.

A concise critical map of contemporary African American fiction.

An anthology of black women writers on motherhood that reconsiders maternal experience through family, labor, and identity. The collection brings together a range of voices and perspectives.

An anthology gathering black women writers on motherhood.

A history of the hip-hop generation that links music to urban change, politics, and identity. It is as much a cultural and social chronicle as it is a music history.

A foundational history of hip-hop as cultural history.

A historical novel set in a 19th-century American hospital, told through the perspective of a young woman medical student. It combines coming-of-age themes with a medical and moral drama.

A story of a young woman making her way through history.

A critical account of U.S. politics before and during the Iraq War, written from the perspective of a former UN weapons inspector. It is a pointed book about security, decision-making, and the use of power.

A sharp critique of the political path to war.

A children's story built around the red cedar of Afognak, linking tree, land, and memory in a single journey. Its tone is reflective and rooted in place.

A journey story tracing the memory of a tree and a place.

A short-story collection about a Mexican American family, organized around family life, immigrant experience, and the gaps between generations. It builds meaning through everyday detail.

A collection of stories that accumulates a family's history.

A memoir-and-selected-writings volume by Hiroshi Kashiwagi that traces immigrant experience and personal memory within American life. It blends recollection with literary selection.

A memoir and selected writings that trace a life.

A political critique of the George W. Bush administration and corporate power. Using environmental issues as a starting point, it examines how policy and profit intersect.

A political critique that starts from environmental damage.

A novel about a Chinese American family in San Francisco that centers on the tensions between generations, success, and belonging. It follows family life and social pressure in equal measure.

An urban novel about family and belonging.

A poetry collection by Lamont B. Steptoe shaped by memory, alienation, and the shadows of urban life. The poems move between personal reflection and social tension.

A collection of poems tracing memory and alienation.

A selected volume of Don West's prose and poetry that lets his own voice shape both his biography and politics. It brings together writing rooted in labor activism and the American South.

A selected volume that reconstructs the writer through prose and poems.