Forthcoming Titles in African American Studies, 2026

A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through July 2026.

Posted on February 5, 2026 in Forthcoming Academic Titles

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Education

Africa and America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, by Kelisha B. Graves and  Noran L Moffett. Taylor & Francis Group, Jun. 2026e. ISBN 9781032933375 $190.00

African American Men in Interracial Relationships, by Quantas L. Ginn. Taylor & Francis Group, Jun. 2026e. ISBN 9781032964928 $64.99

Black Girlhood Methodologies in Qualitative Research, by Jamelia N. Harris, Ashley Smith-Purviance, and Misha Inniss-Thompson. Taylor & Francis Group, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781032202945 $160.00

Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care, by Samiha Rahman. NYU Press, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781479838219 $30.00

Content Warning: Teaching Lynching and Racial Violence in North Carolina, by Rhonda Jones, ed. by Dr Chris McAuley. Lived Places Publishing, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781917566155 $34.95

Decolonizing Western Universities: Lessons from the Caribbean, by Marsha Hinds Myrie, ed. by Chris McAuley. Lived Places Publishing, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781917566759 $34.95

Liberation and Education: Perspectives on Black Educational Thought, ed. by Ronald E. Chennault and Derrick P. Alridge. Rutgers, May 2026. ISBN 9781978829985 $44.95

Teaching Poetry Now, ed. by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud. SUNY Press, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9798855805666 $120.00

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Film & Theatre

August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art, by Laurence A. Glasco. Pittsburgh, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9780822948544 $35.00

Beverly Buchanan, Athens, GA, 8 July 1995, ed. by Mo Costello and Katz Tepper. Soberscove Press, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781940190372 $29.95

Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898–1919, by Cheryl Thompson. Wilfrid Laurier, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781771127011 $49.99

When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World, by Leigh Raiford. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478029861 $103.95

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History

African American Leaders, ed. by Ronald W. Walters. Taylor & Francis Group, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9780415609609 $1,485.00

Art as Sanctuary: Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic, by Michael D. Harris, ed. by Dianne M. Stewart and Theophus H. Smith. Duke, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9781478015062 $125.00

Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment, by Damon Root. Potomac Books, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781640126435 $29.95

The Ethiopian Revolution of 1974: Revolt, Resilience, Transformation, by Paulos Milkias. Algora Publishing, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9781628945850 $33.95

The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet, by Lisa Nakamura. Minnesota, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9780816699063 $24.95

The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway, by Virginia McGee Richards. The MIT Press, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9780262051712 $39.95

It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story, by Jesse Montgomery. North Carolina, May 2026. ISBN 9781469693965 $32.50

A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs: Housing Chicago’s Great Migration, by Amani C. Morrison. NYU Press, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781479840892 $30.00

The Lowest Freedom: Racial Capitalism and Black Thought in the Nineteenth Century, by Justin Leroy. Columbia, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9780231223560 $27.00

The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War, by Jason R. Young. North Carolina, May 2026. ISBN 9781469694351 $29.95

Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis, by Jennifer DeVere Brody. Duke, Jun. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033639 $119.95

No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Fight for Racial Justice, by Karen L. Cox. 2nd ed. North Carolina, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781469695969 $18.00

Order of Business: The Golden Age of Fraternity and Its Legacy of Inequality, by Pamela A. Popielarz. North Carolina, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781469694252 $29.95

Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era, by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. North Carolina, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781469694993 $27.95

The Power We Need Right Now: Black Sororities and Black Radical Movements of the 1970s, by Aisha A. Upton Azzam. Temple, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781439925386 $99.50

Prince’s Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place, by Rashad Shabazz. North Carolina, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781469690957 $24.95

Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s, by Russell Rickford. North Carolina, May 2026. ISBN 9781469690803 $34.95

Radical Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1868–1876, by Nicolas W. Proctor. North Carolina, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781469695440 $30.00

Riding into History: The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel, by Amy Nathan, with Sarah Keys Evans. Duke, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781478029717 $119.95

Royal Treatment: Jackie Robinson, Montreal, and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color Barrier, by Sean J. McLaughlin. Nebraska, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781496244314 $36.95

They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America, ed. by John M. Kinder and Jennifer M. Murray. Nebraska, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781496245649 $35.00

Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory, by John Garrison Marks. North Carolina, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781469693521 $35.00

The Total Black Experience: A History of Television’s Positively Black, by Ron Bishop. Rutgers, May 2026. ISBN 9781978836945 $34.95

The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory, by Sharron Wilkins Conrad. North Carolina, May 2026. ISBN 9781469694443 $27.95

White Power: Policing American Slavery, by Gautham Rao. North Carolina, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781469694849 $30.00

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Language & Literature

Aminata: Abbey Lincoln’s Song of Faith, by Ada C. M. Thomas. Rutgers, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781978843356 $29.95

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle, by Ellen McLarney. Columbia, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9780231219426 $32.00

Black Configurations: The Ethos of “Tradition” from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison, by Kimberly W. Benston. Vol. 1. Anthem Press, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781785278679 $110.00

Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness, by Jess Waggoner. NYU Press, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781479840090 $30.00

Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era, by Erin Joyce Kappeler. North Carolina, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781469693064 $39.95

Fragmented Forms in African American Women’s Memoir, by Yolanda Manora. Taylor & Francis Group, May 2026e. ISBN 9781032742366 $69.99

Minor Moves: Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives, by Allison S. Curseen. North Carolina, May 2026. ISBN 9781469694207 $37.50

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature, by Chad Benito Infante. Minnesota, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9781517919887 $35.00

Ralph Ellison and Cinema, by Sam Halliday. Anthem Press, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781785279638 $24.95

Struggle and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960, by W. Lawrence Hogue. Anthem Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781839997945 $110.00

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Music & Dance

African American Covers of Country Music Before Ray Charles, by Timothy Dodge. Bloomsbury Academic, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781666902174 $120.00

The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price, ed. by Samantha Ege and A. Kori Hill. Cambridge, Mar. 2026e. ISBN 9781009169370 $29.99

Curriculum of the Mind, by Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson and The Space Program. Michigan, Apr. 2026. ISBN 9780472999095 open access

I Hear Freedom: The Great Migration, Free Jazz, and Black Power, by Cisco Bradley. Columbia, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9780231221573 $32.00

An Index to Spirituals, by Kathleen A. Abromeit. SUNY Press, May 2026. ISBN 9798855807233 $160.00

Jazz, Race, and Writing, 1945–1970, by Willis Salomon. Bloomsbury Academic, May 2026. ISBN 9781666909463 $120.00

Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans, by Alix Chapman. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033707 $103.95

Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition, by Jeremy C. McCool and Earl Hopkins. Bloomsbury Academic, May 2026. ISBN 9798881801250 $34.00

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Politics & Law

Black Voices in the Halls of Power: Race and Rhetorical Representation in Congress, by Jennifer R. Garcia et al. Cambridge, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781009681438 $38.00

Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress, by Atinuke O. Adediran. Cambridge, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781009442985 $39.99

Free To Be More Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter, ed. by Syrus Marcus Ware and Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo. University of Regina, May 2026. ISBN 9781779401328 $89.00

Robed Representatives: How Black Judges Advocate in American Courts, by Taneisha Means Davis. Stanford, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781503641341 $32.00

Strong State, Weak Links: Eugenics and the Southern Politics of Welfare, by Anna L. Krome-Lukens. North Carolina, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781469693675 $37.50

Supreme Court Policymaking and Race: Origins and Development, by Barbara L. Graham. SUNY Press, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9798855805864 $130.00

Tulsa Speaks: What a City Council Apology Tells Us About Race in America, by Kristal Brent Zook. Rutgers, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781978848320 $29.95

Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics, by T.D. Harper-Shipman. Stanford, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781503647121 $26.00

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Religion & Philosophy

The Door of No Return: Being-as-Black, by Michael E. Sawyer. Temple, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781439925560 $110.50

Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World, by Cécile Bishop. Duke, Jun. 2026e. ISBN 9781478033837 $119.95

The Gloria Wekker Reader, by Gloria Wekker, ed. by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder. Duke, Apr. 2026e. ISBN 9781478029731 $139.95

One True Church: An American Story of Race, Family, and Religion, by Susan B. Ridgely. North Carolina, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781469694597 $24.95

Religion, Ritual, and Resistance in African American Popular Culture, by Joy R. Bostic. Taylor & Francis Group, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9780367353735 $190.00

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Sociology

Africulture:  How the Principles, Practices, Plants, and People of African Descent Have Shaped American Agriculture, by Michael Carter, Jr. Chelsea Green Publishing, May 2026. ISBN 9781645023012 $29.95

Day One: 2024 Was 1984 FAFO, by Chuck D. Enemy Books, an imprint of Akashic Books, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781636143033 $24.95

Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Writings of Katherine McKittrick, by Katherine McKittrick, ed. by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne. Minnesota, Mar. 2026. ISBN 9781517917067 $35.00

In Hush to Harbor: Black Sanctuary from Slavery to Trump’s America, by La-Toya Scott. Rutgers, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781978844902 $27.95

Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work, by Bianca J. Baldridge. Stanford, Feb. 2026. ISBN 9781503644892 $28.00

Loving Black Boys: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering, by Tamura Lomax. Duke, May 2026e. ISBN 9781478033790 $119.95

Naming Racism, Confronting Anti-Blackness: Mexican American Transnational Racialization and Coalition Building, by Bianca Sofia Rubalcava. Rutgers, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781978842595 $27.95

The Nature of Islamophobia: Institutions, Individuals, and Trickle-Down Hate, by Amin Asfari and Anas Askar. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Feb. 2026e. ISBN 9798896163619 $110.00

Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA Terrell, by J. A. Winder. NYU Press, Jun. 2026. ISBN 9781479827589 $30.00

Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee, by Rhonda M. Roorda. Temple, Jul. 2026. ISBN 9781439927939 $30.00

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