Set amid murders in Mississippi, the novel confronts the legacy of racial violence and the past’s continued power. Its dark satire and hard-edged suspense keep the history in the present tense.

The memory of violence returns as a mystery in the present tense.

This poetry collection follows trauma, memory, and the long work of self-recovery. It rebuilds a life from painful inheritance through language that is intimate and unsparing.

A poem sequence that keeps returning to injury, memory, and repair.

Tracing the life of a single heirloom, the book reconstructs the history of Black women and the lives missing from official archives. It joins family memory to historical research with clarity and force.

A single heirloom opens onto generations of history.

This intellectual history traces how fear of strangers became a concept and spread through politics, science, and society. It offers a framework for understanding present-day xenophobia.

A history of fear of strangers, told as intellectual history.