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Friday Foster Lawrence, Jim and Longaron, Jorge Diamond Book DIstributors . Ablaze 9781950912063 304 pages hardcover $39.99 Pub Date: 1/12/2021
Author picture: This strip ran from 1974-1970 and inspired the 1975 movie of the same name starring Pam Grier. The strip is the first mainstream comic strip starring an African- American character in the title role. The book will also include a significant bonus section including multiple interviews, an expanded sketchbook section, artwork, photos, essays, articles, behind-the-scenes info, and more!
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Black in White America Freed, Leonard Getty Publications . J. Paul Getty Museum 9781606060117 208 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: First published in 1968, Black in White America shows many aspects of black life in 1960s America, from political marches and rallies to children playing and splashing in the spray of a fire hydrant, from signs for colored entrances to interactions with whites.
Leonard Freed was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a working-class Jewish family. Working as a freelance photographer beginning in 1961, Freed traveled the world capturing images of monumental events with much of his work exploring racial discrimination. His photographs have been featured in dozens of exhibitions in the United States and Europe and he has published thirteen books.
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This Is the Day Freed, Leonard Getty Publications . J. Paul Getty Museum 9781606061213 128 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 2/5/2013 79 b/w illustrations.
Author picture: Firsthand account by social activist and civil rights leader Julian Bond. Essay by Michael Eric Dyson puts the march into historical context.
Leonard Freed (American, 1929-2006) was a pioneer in the genre of socially conscious photojournalism.
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Booker T. Washington Rediscovered Bieze, Michael Scott and Gasman, Marybeth (editors) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421404714 280 pages paperback $37.95 Pub Date: 3/20/2012 163 halftones
Author picture: Drawing on previously unpublished writings, hard-to-find speeches and essays, and other primary documents from public and private collections, Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman provide a balanced and insightful look at this controversial and sometimes misunderstood leader.
Michael Scott Bieze is the chair of the Fine Arts Department at Marist School and the author of Booker T. Washington and the Art of Self-Representation. Marybeth Gasman is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her recent books include The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American Medical School and Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom Bristol Jr., Douglas Walter Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421418391 232 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 7/8/2015 6 halftones
Author picture: In Knights of the Razor, Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., explores this extraordinary relationship in the largely untold story of African American barbers, North and South, from the American Revolution to the First World War.
Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America Brown, Lawrence T. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421439877 384 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 1/26/2021
Author picture: In The Black Butterfly—a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down the center of the city like a butterfly's wings—Lawrence T. Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings and crises in hypersegregated cities around the country.
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African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album Coddington, Ronald S. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421406251 384 pages hardcover $32.95 Pub Date: 8/20/2012 Foreword by J. Matthew Gallman. 77 halftones
Author picture: Discover the men of color who fought for their freedom during the Civil War through profiles illustrated with original wartime photographs.
Ronald S. Coddington is assistant managing editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has appeared in USA Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the San Jose Mercury News. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Disunion series and writes a monthly column for The Civil War News. He is the author of Faces of the Confederacy and Faces of the Civil War.
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Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era Hall, Eric Allen Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421419824 344 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 4/11/2016 12 halftones
Author picture: The first scholarly biography of one of the most famous athletes of our time shows how Ashe worked for civil rights while playing a country-club sport in a white man’s world.
Eric Allen Hall is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro.
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Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity - 2nd edition Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421429762 288 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date: 3/19/2019 6 halftones, 3 line drawings. 6 x 9 x .7
Author picture: Outstanding Academic Title, Choice. Drawing on deep archival research and interviews with key participants, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar reconsiders the commingled stories of—and popular reactions to—the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and mainstream civil rights leaders. Ogbar finds that many African Americans embraced the seemingly contradictory political agenda of desegregation and nationalism. Indeed, black nationalism, he demonstrates, was far more favorably received among African Americans than historians have previously acknowledged.
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is a professor of history and the associate dean for the humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches Peterson, Nancy J. (editor) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801857027 296 pages paperback $29 Pub Date: 12/26/1997 A Modern Fiction Studies Book
Author picture: The cultural and political dimensions of the work of the 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature.
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Selma's Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality Pratt, Robert A. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421421605 160 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2016 10 halftones
Author picture: The march from Selma to Montgomery starkly illustrated the claims of the civil rights movement—and the raw brutality of the forces arrayed against it.
Robert A. Pratt is a professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954–89 and We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia.
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Young Frederick Douglass Preston, Dickson J. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421425948 304 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 6/15/2018 9 b&w illustrations, 1 map. Foreword by David W. Blight.
Author picture: "No one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of this book."— from the foreword by David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Dickson J. Preston (1914–1985) worked for more than thirty years as a newspaper reporter and editor. He lived in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, not far from the birthplace of Frederick Douglass. David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
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Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom Rivers, Larry Eugene Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421440309 328 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 2/2/2021
Author picture: In Father James Page, Larry Eugene Rivers presents Page as a complex, conflicted man: neither a nonthreatening, accommodationist mouthpiece for white supremacy nor a calculating schemer fomenting rebellion. Rivers emphasizes Page's agency in pursuing a religious vocation, in seeking to exhibit "manliness" in the face of chattel slavery, and in pushing back against the overwhelming power of his enslaver.
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From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline Rojas, Fabio Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801898259 304 pages paperback $29 Pub Date: 6/29/2010
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In From Black Power to Black Studies, Fabio Rojas explores how this radical social movement evolved into a recognized academic discipline.
Fabio Rojas is an assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University.
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A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till Whitfield, Stephen J. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801843266 208 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 11/1/1991
Author picture: In this sensitive inquiry, historian Stephen J. Whitfield probes Till's death; its ideological roots; the potent myths concerning race, sexuality, and violence; and the incident's enduring effects on American national life.
Stephen J. Whitfield is Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University. He is the author of A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till and A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald.
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Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter Lofton, John Kent State University Press . 9781606351710 340 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 10/14/2013 Introduction by Peter Charles Hoffer. American Abolitionism and Antislavery.
Author picture: In Denmark Vesey's Revolt, John Lofton draws upon primary sources to examine the trial and provide, as Peter Hoffer says in his new introduction, one of the most sensible and measured accounts of the subject. This classic book was originally published in 1964 as Insurrection in South Carolina: The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey,and then reissued by the Kent State University Press in 1983 as Denmark Vesey s Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter.
Peter Charles Hoffer is Distinguished Research Professor in the history department of the University of Georgia. His recent works include Nation of Laws: America's Incomplete Search for Justice and Free Press Crisis of 1800: The Trial of Thomas Cooper for Seditious Libel. Discount: 0.40 Distro: Kent State Group: BRG
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Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers During the Civil War Wilson, Keith P. Kent State University Press . 9780873387095 360 pages hardcover $39 Pub Date: 11/18/2002
Author picture: Three related themes are examined in this fascinating study: the social dynamics of race relations in Union Army camps, the relationship that evolved between Southern and Northern black soldiers, and the role off-duty activities played in helping the soldiers meet the demands of military service and the challenges of freedom.
Keith P. Wilson is a history professor at Monash University (Australia).
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Double Exposure: Images of Black Minnesota in the 1940s - the Photography of John Glanton Glanton, John Minnesota Historical Society Press . 9781681340944 160 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2018
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A rare and intimate look at Minnesota’s African American community in postwar America through the lens of a pioneering black photographer.
John F. Glanton (1923–2004) was a professional photographer in the Twin Cities who memorialized a variety of events, people, and moments in postwar Minnesota. Many of his photos appeared in the Minneapolis Spokesman and the St. Paul Recorder.
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Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressive Illusion Jacobs, Walter R. / Taiwo, Wendy Thompson / August, Amy (editors) Minnesota Historical Society Press . 9781681342085 224 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 5/4/2021 5 1/2 × 8 ½. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author picture: Reflections on the murder of George Floyd and the uprisings that followed and on racism in Minnesota, as told by former and current residents of the state.
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt Ashton, Susanna (editor) Modern Language Association . 9781603293327 190 pages paperback $24 Pub Date: 12/1/2017 Approaches to Teaching World Literature.
Author picture: Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim Crow, Charles W. Chesnutt could have passed as white but chose to identify himself as black. An intellectual and activist involved with the NAACP who engaged in debate with Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, he wrote fiction and essays that addressed issues as various as segregation, class among both blacks and whites, Southern nostalgia, and the Wilmington coup d'état of 1898.
Susanna Ashton is a Professor of English at Clemson University.
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Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works Lowe, John (editor) Modern Language Association . 9781603290449 207 pages paperback $19.75 Pub Date: 1/1/2009
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Zora Neale Hurston emerged as a celebrated writer of the Harlem Renaissance, fell into obscurity toward the end of her life, yet is now recognized as a great American author. Her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is popular among general readers and is widely taught in universities, colleges, and secondary schools. A key text of African American and women's literature, it has also been studied by scholars interested in the 1930s, small-town life, modernism, folklore, and regionalism, and it has been viewed through the lenses of dialect theory, critical race theory, and transnational and diasporan studies.
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Approaches to Teaching Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Other Works Lowe, John Wharton (editor) Modern Language Association . 9781603294218 268 pages paperback $29 Pub Date: 8/1/2019
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman tells the story of a woman, a community, and the African American experience from the Civil War through Jim Crow to the civil rights movement. This narrative and Gaines's other novels and short stories explore the life of blacks in the South, their religious traditions and folkways, and their struggles under oppression. The southern communities described are diverse: blacks, creoles of color, poor whites, and wealthy landowners.
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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison McKay, Nellie Y. and Earle, Kathryn (editors) Modern Language Association . 9780873527422 179 pages paperback $19.75 Pub Date: 1/1/1997 Approaches to Teaching World Literature.
Author picture: Teachers started assigning the novels of Toni Morrison long before she won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature and before there was a significant body of secondary literature on the author. Now her works are the subject of countless studies and listed in the syllabi of an ever-increasing number of courses in schools and universities.
Nellie Y. McKay teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Kathryn Earle is with Berg Publishers, Oxford, England.
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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen McLendon, Jacquelyn Y. (editor) Modern Language Association . 9781603292207 210 pages paperback $24 Pub Date: 9/1/2016 Approaches to Teaching World Literature.
Author picture: Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional “tragic mulatta” and “passing” narratives. In part 1, “Materials,” of Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen, the editor surveys the canon of Larsen’s writing, evaluates editions of her works, recommends secondary readings, and compiles a list of useful multimedia resources for teaching.
Jacquelyn Y. McLendon is professor of English and Africana Studies at the College of William and Mary.
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Michelle Obama: First Lady Gaertner, Meg North Star Editions . Focus Readers 9781644937266 32 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Justice for George Floyd Harris, Duchess North Star Editions . Core Library 9781644945087 48 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021 Core Library Guide to Racism in Modern America
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A Walk in Harlem Platt, Christine and López, Anuki North Star Editions . Calico Kid 9781644945254 32 pages paperback $6.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Family Reunion Platt, Christine and López, Anuki North Star Editions . Calico Kid 9781644945209 32 pages paperback $6.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Home Run Platt, Christine and López, Anuki North Star Editions . Calico Kid 9781644945223 32 pages paperback $6.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Honoring Heroes Platt, Christine and López, Anuki North Star Editions . Calico Kid 9781644945216 32 pages paperback $6.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Martin's Dream Platt, Christine and López, Anuki North Star Editions . Calico Kid 9781644945230 32 pages paperback $6.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Planting Peanuts Platt, Christine and López, Anuki North Star Editions . Calico Kid 9781644945247 32 pages paperback $6.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Barbara Jordan: Civil Rights Leader Stratton, Connor North Star Editions . Focus Readers 9781644937259 32 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Colin Kaepernick: Football Star Walker, Hubert North Star Editions . Focus Readers 9781644937372 32 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2021
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Trumbull Park Brown, Frank London Northeastern University Press . 9781555536282 456 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 8/9/2005 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. Northeastern Library of Black Literature
Author picture: Frank Brown’s classic novel of racial strife in a Chicago housing project is once again in print. Originally published in 1959, this powerful debut novel fictionalizes the real-life ordeals of the first black families to integrate Chicago’s Trumbull Park public housing project in the 1950s.
FRANK LONDON BROWN (1927–1962) was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Chicago. An associate editor of Ebony, he also wrote the novel The Myth Maker, as well as numerous articles and short stories published in Down Beat, Negro Digest, Chicago Review, Ebony, and Southwest Review. Brown also worked as a machinist, bartender, loan interviewer, postal clerk, union organizer, and jazz singer, and he was the first writer to give public readings of his short stories to jazz Discount: accompaniment. 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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Platitudes Ellis, Trey Northeastern University Press . 9781555535865 224 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/2/2003 8 illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. Northeastern Library of Black Literature
Author picture: A playful, irreverent look at the African-American literary community.
Trey Ellis is a professional novelist and screenwriter. In addition to Platitudes, he has written the highly acclaimed novels Home Repairs and Right Here, Right Now, as well as several screenplays, including The Inkwell and The Tuskegee Airmen. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
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Love and Marriage in Early African America Foster, Frances Smith (editor) Northeastern University Press . 9781555536770 360 pages paperback $35 Pub Date: 12/31/2007 Northeastern Library of Black Literature
Author picture: Love and Marriage in Early African America brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, rhymes, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short stories, memoirs, and autobiographies.
FRANCES SMITH FOSTER is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Chair of the English Department at Emory University.
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Sarah Phillips Lee, Andrea Northeastern University Press . 9781555531584 144 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 7/3/1993 Northeastern Library of Black Literature. Foreword by Valerie Smith.
Author picture: This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in the hermetic world of the old- fashioned black bourgeoisie.
Andrea Lee is an American author of novels and memoirs. Her stories are often international in setting and deal with questions of racial and national identity. Lee grew up in Philadelphia. She is an expatriate who currently lives in Torino, Italy with her husband and two children.
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Home To Harlem McKay, Claude Northeastern University Press . 9781555530242 360 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 11/30/1987 Northeastern Library of Black Literature. Introduction by Wayne F. Cooper.
Author picture: This classic novel gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue.
Claude McKay, one of the pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote several critically acclaimed works of poetry, fiction, and autobiography. Although he lived in New York City for much of his life, McKay produced many of his major books in Europe, the Soviet Union, and North Africa during the 1920s and early 1930s. He died penniless in a Chicago hospital in 1948.
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Alien Land Savoy, Willard Northeastern University Press . 9781555536572 336 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2006 Foreword by Robert Burns Stepto. Northeastern Library of Black Literature
Author picture: Alien Land is the passionate and haunting story of a light-skinned black man who can pass as white in mid-twentieth-century America.
Willard Wilson Savoy (September 13, 1916 – July 8, 1976) was an American novelist, writer and public relations specialist.
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Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Working of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 Schuyler, George S. Northeastern University Press . 9781555530631 222 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 11/7/1989
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What would happen to the race problem in America if black people could suddenly become white? Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp, is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was black.
GEORGE SAMUEL SCHUYLER (1895-1977) was a satirist and critic who is often Discount: viewed, in his absurdist comic approach, as a precursor to Ishmael Reed. Among 0.40 his works are Black Empire and Ethiopian Stories, both published by Northeastern Distro: University Press. HFS Group: Wilcher
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Loving Her Shockley, Ann Allen Northeastern University Press . 9781555533298 208 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 10/30/1997 New foreword by and Alycee Lane. Northeastern Library of Black Literature
Author picture: The groundbreaking story centers on Renay, a talented black musician who is forced by pregnancy to marry the abusive, alcoholic Jerome Lee. Renay meets Terry, a wealthy white writer, at a supper club, and Terry awakens in Renay a love and sexual desire beyond her erotic imaginings. Despite the sexist, racist, and homophobic prejudices they must confront, the mutually supportive couple finds physical and emotional joy.
Ann Allen Shockley (born June 21, 1927) is an American journalist, author, and librarian. She is known for her works of fiction exploring Black lesbian relationships, and for her work on library and archives services for African Americans.
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Infants Of the Spring Thurman, Wallace Northeastern University Press . 9781555531287 284 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 6/18/1992 Northeastern Library of Black Literature Foreword by Amritjit Singh. 5 x 8
Author picture: One of the most potent satires of the Harlem Renaissance and a retort to the idealized vision of Harlem's artistic community between World War I and the Depression.
Wallace Henry Thurman (August 16, 1902 - December 26, 1934) was an American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals. He is best known for his novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929), which explores discrimination within the black community based on skin color, with lighter skin being more highly valued.
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Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light: A Novel of Some Probability Williams, John A. Northeastern University Press . 9781555533960 288 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 6/3/1999 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. Northeastern Library of Black Literature. Foreword by Richard
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This complex and inventive novel by one of the most significant African American writers of the twentieth century reflects the author's apocalyptic vision of black revolutionary impulses and reactionary white conspiracies in the late 1960s.
John A. Williams was Paul Robeson Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous critically acclaimed novels, including The Angry Ones; The Man Who Cried I Am; and !Click Song. Richard Yarborough, editor of the Northeastern Library of Black Literature, is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America Abu-Jamal, Mumia and Hill, Marc Lamont Northwestern University Press . Third World Press 9780883783375 177 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2012
Author picture: This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about the many forces impacting their lives. Covering topics such as race, politics, hip-hop culture, education, mass incarceration, and love, their discussions shine a spotlight on some of the most pressing issues in 21st century African American life.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author who has spent the last 29 years on Pennsylvania's death row. Marc Lamont Hill is Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Body of Life Alexander, Elizabeth Northwestern University Press . Tia Chucha 9781882688128 85 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 1/13/1997
Author picture: First published in 1996 - Obama Inauguration poet.
Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in New York City and raised in Washington, DC. Alexander has degrees from Yale University and Boston University and completed her Ph. D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nostalgia for Trumpet: Poems of Memory and History Anderson, Susan D. Northwestern University Press . Tia Chucha 9781882688357 80 pages paperback $13.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2008
Author picture: Poetry. African-American poet and a writer of essays and commentary for the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Mother Jones
Susan Anderson teaches, speaks, and writes about African American history, politics, and culture, with an emphasis on California and the West. She is the managing director of L. A. as Subject, an association of libraries and archives hosted by the University of Southern California.
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Razor Baraka, Amiri Northwestern University Press . Third World Press 9780883783009 300 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2011
Author picture: Collection of essays by literary and cultural legend Amiri Baraka raises numerous issues concerning contemporary African American life.
Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) is a writer and critic, the poet laureate of New Jersey, and Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His many books include Blues People, Black Music, and The Music.
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By Any Means Necessary - Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Boyd, Herb / Daniels, Ron / Karenga, Maulana / Madhubuti, Haki R. (editors) Northwestern University Press . Third World Press 9780883783368 284 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2012
Author picture: Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biography of Malcolm X, more than 30 noted scholars from the African American community offer their opinions on Marable’s portrayal of the man whose short life still inspires speculation of what might have been.
Herb Boyd is a journalist, activist, teacher, and has authored or edited 23 books.
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Maud Martha Brooks, Gwendolyn Northwestern University Press . Third World Press 9780883780619 180 pages paperback $12.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: A novel that captures the essence of Black life and recognizes the beauty and strength that lies within each of us. The only novel ever published by esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer prize (1950), and she was the poetry consultant for the Library of Congress and the Poet Laureate of Illinois.
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The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown Brown, Sterling A. Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly 9780810150454 267 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 4/8/1996 Edited by Michael S. Harper.
Author picture: Arguably the greatest African-American poet of the century, Sterling Brown was instrumental in bringing the traditions of African-American folk life to readers all over the world. This is the definitive collection of Brown's poems, and the only edition available in the U.S. 'Sterling Brown's poetry should be in print in perpetuity.
Sterling Brown was born in Washington, D. C. , on May 1, 1901. He was educated at Dunbar High School and received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College.
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New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition Cameron, Christopher / Farmer, Ashley D. / Blain, Keisha N. (editors) Northwestern University Press . 9780810138124 240 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 11/15/2018 6 x 9. 6 b/w images.
Author picture: New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition illuminates the origins of and conduits for black ideas, redefines the relationship between black thought and social action, and challenges long-held assumptions about black perspectives on religion, race, and radicalism. The intellectuals profiled in the volume reshape and redefine the contours and boundaries of black thought, further illuminating the depth and diversity of the black intellectual tradition.
KEISHA N. BLAIN teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom and coeditor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. CHRISTOPHER CAMERON is an associate professor of history at Discount: the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Free!: Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad Cary, Lorene Northwestern University Press . Third World Press 9780883782682 86 pages paperback $15 Pub Date:
Author picture: Stories based upon actual incidents of Black people escaping from chattel slavery. Lorene Cary adapted these tales from narratives and records that were first told by William Still who was one of the key organizers of the underground railroad. The stories are brought to life by the craft of Ms. Cary.
Lorene Cary is a celebrated novelist based in Philadelphia.She is the founder of the Art Sanctuary that brings Black intellectuals and artists to perform and speak.
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Selected Plays Childress, Alice Northwestern University Press . 9780810127517 272 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 4/19/2011
Author picture: Childress is considered one of the ground-breakers in American theater as the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first woman to win an Obie for Best Play (for Trouble in Mind, in 1956).
Alice Childress (October 12, 1912 – August 14, 1994) was an American playwright, actor, and author.
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Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite: Poems Colarusso, Andrew E. Northwestern University Press . 9780810140202 40 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Author picture: In Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite, Andrew Colarusso hybridizes lost and unknown spaces, taking his title from a falconry term for the cord used to restrain a bird.
ANDREW E. COLARUSSO is the author of the novel The Sovereign. He was the editor in chief of The Broome Street Review from 2009 to 2017.
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promised instruments Colón, Kristiana Rae Northwestern University Press . 9780810128910 32 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 1/31/2013
Author picture: POETRY - Taking its cue from Toni Morrison’s declaration that “language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names,” Kristiana Rae Colón’s promised instruments stitches its own definitions for what is granted, what is surrendered, what is pilfered, and what is reclaimed.
Poet, playwright, and actor Kristiana Colón earned a BA at the University of Chicago and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poems explore romantic and personal transformation, often making use of unconventional punctuation and capitalization. The author of the chapbook pieces of shedu (2008), Colón has also performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination, and her work has been included in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web Discount: 2010 and the anthologies Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women, a World Poetry 0.25 Anthology (2009) and Chorus: A Literary (Re)Mixtape (2012). Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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A Chocolate Soldier Colter, Cyrus Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly 9780810150386 278 pages paperback $18 Pub Date: 6/1/1995
Author picture: Cyrus Colter's fourth novel is a cautionary tale of revolutionary dreams, bitter realities, and the persistence of both hope and falsehood. No reader will forget the tale Meshach Barry tells of the rebellion led by Rollo Ezekiel Lee--known as ‘Cager’--on the campus of a small black college.
A distinguished attorney and public servant, Cyrus Colter took up writing in midlife and, after retiring from the law, devoted himself not only to his art but also to teaching. He held the Chester D. Tripp Professorship in the Humanities and chaired the Program in African-American Studies at Northwestern University. His first book, The Beach Umbrella, won the Iowa School of Letters Award for First Fiction in 1970. Discount: 0.43 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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City of Light Colter, Cyrus Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly 9780810150805 423 pages paperback $22 Pub Date: 4/15/1998
Author picture: Paul Kessey, age twenty-nine, is caught between two worlds. Although his is a privileged world of successful blacks in Chicago, and he is a graduate of Princeton, handsome and well-connected, Kessey is uncertain how to identify himself in relation to the African diaspora, partly because of his light skin.
Cyrus Colter was a distinguished attorney and public servant when he took up writing in midlife. He is the author of five other works, among them The Beach Umbrella and Other Stories, The Hippodrome, Night Studies, and A Chocolate Soldier.
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Night Studies Colter, Cyrus Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly 9780810150652 775 pages paperback $24 Pub Date: 8/1/1997
Author picture: Cyrus Colter's third and most ambitious novel follows the fortunes of John Calvin Knight--the fiery, driven leader of the Black Peoples Congress, a man whose life and career have developed as much in reaction to his father and the views of an earlier generation as to the awakening civil rights movements of his own era.
The distinguished African-American writer and educator Cyrus Colter was born in Noblesville, Indiana, on January 8, 1910. A recipient of the prestigious University of Iowa School of Letters first prize award for short fiction, Colter published many short stories and poems, as well as six novels, throughout his career. Colter worked for the Illinois Commerce Commission before resigning to take a faculty position at Northwestern in the Department of African-American Studies. He remained at Discount: Northwestern until his retirement in 1978. 0.43 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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The Beach Umbrella and Other Stories Colter, Cyrus Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly 9780810150508 283 pages paperback $18 Pub Date: 5/13/1996
Author picture: Set mostly on Chicago's South Side, these eighteen stories describe ordinary people whose lives are transformed by small acts of chance or will.
A distinguished attorney and public servant, Cyrus Colter took up writing in midlife and, after retiring from the law, devoted himself not only to his art but also to teaching. He held the Chester D. Tripp Professorship in the Humanities and chaired the Program in African-American Studies at Northwestern University. His first book, The Beach Umbrella, won the Iowa School of Letters Award for First Fiction in 1970.
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The Hippodrome Colter, Cyrus Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly 9780810150362 213 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/26/1994
Author picture: Set in a Chicago seething with physical and psychological violence, Cyrus Colter's The Hippodrome is an examination of power and exploitation and their entanglement with sexuality.
A distinguished attorney and public servant, Cyrus Colter took up writing in midlife and, after retiring from the law, devoted himself not only to his art but also to teaching. He held the Chester D. Tripp Professorship in the Humanities and chaired the Program in African-American Studies at Northwestern University. His first book, The Beach Umbrella, won the Iowa School of Letters Award for First Fiction in 1970.
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Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden Dawes, Kwame and Shenoda, Matthew (editors) Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly Books 9780810134898 160 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: April 2017 6 x 9 inches, 6 color images. Foreword by Derek Walcott. Cover art: Poseidon, The
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Bearden’s Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States.
KWAME DAWES is the author of nineteen books of poetry and numerous books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament, will appear in 2016 along with Speak from Here to There, a collection of verse cowritten with the Australian poet John Kinsella, and A Bloom of Stones, a trilingual anthology of Haitian poetry. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, as well as a faculty member of Pacific University’s M. F. Discount: 0.43 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Harriet Jacobs Diamond, Lydia Northwestern University Press . 9780810127166 92 pages paperback $16 Pub Date: 5/19/2011
Author picture: Throughout her meteoric rise into the upper ranks of young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American culture. In Harriet Jacobs, she turns one of the greatest of American slave narratives, Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, into a penetrating, rousing work of theater. .
LYDIA R. DIAMOND is the author of Stick Fly (Northwestern, 2008), produced on Broadway in 2011, nominated in 2012 for an Outer Critics Cicle Award for Best Play, and winner of the 2010 LA Critics Circle Award for Playwriting, among other prizes.
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Smart People Diamond, Lydia Northwestern University Press . 9780810134645 112 pages paperback $15 Pub Date: 12/15/2016
Author picture: Diamond's Smart People, played Off Broadway's Second Stage theatre (February 2016) and will be part of the 2016 2017 lineup for New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre (dates forthcoming).
LYDIA R. DIAMOND is the author of Stick Fly (Northwestern, 2008), produced on Broadway in 2011, nominated in 2012 for an Outer Critics Cicle Award for Best Play, and winner of the 2010 LA Critics Circle Award for Playwriting, among other prizes.
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Stick Fly Diamond, Lydia Northwestern University Press . 9780810125353 112 pages paperback $16 Pub Date: 12/17/2008
Author picture: Six-character play.
LYDIA R. DIAMOND is the author of Stick Fly (Northwestern, 2008), produced on Broadway in 2011, nominated in 2012 for an Outer Critics Cicle Award for Best Play, and winner of the 2010 LA Critics Circle Award for Playwriting, among other prizes.
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Love's Instruments Dixon, Melvin Northwestern University Press . Tia Chucha 9781882688074 79 pages paperback $10.95 Pub Date: 10/15/1995
Author picture: ‘Eloquent, cosmopolitan, acute, at home in Harlem or Dakar, Paris of Provincetown, or on a back porch 'down home,' Melvin Dixon wrote poems of a lyrical complexity, an intellectual forthrightness, imbued with a love of language(s) which mirrored his love of the physical world, of cities, of music, of bodies. He was as adept at the erotics of compassion. We are fortunate to have this last book--even as we mourn its author.’ --Marilyn Hacker.
Melvin Dixon (May 29, 1950-October 26, 1992 ) was an American Professor of Literature, and an author, poet and translator. He wrote about black gay men.
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Gone Missing in Harlem: A Novel Holloway, Karla FC Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly Books 9780810143531 224 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2021 6 × 9. WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
Author picture: A mystery set in the Harlem Renaissance probes the precarious interactions between Harlem residents and Manhattan’s white families, and the nuanced love between mothers and their children.
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Migrant Psalms: Poems Holnes, Darrel Alejandro Northwestern University Press . 9780810143586 36 pages paperback $12 Pub Date: 4/1/2021 The Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Series Editors: Chris Abani, John Alba
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Winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Migrant Psalms prays for a way to make sense of immigration to the United States—now that we realize the American Dream was always an impossible one. Both reverent and daring, this verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality.
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What Water Knows: Poems LaMon, Jacqueline Jones Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly Books 9780810143845 88 pages paperback $17 Pub Date: 6/1/2021 6 x 9. WORLDWIDE, FIRST PUBLICATION
Author picture: An award-winning poet explores the risk and sustenance of water.
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Honoring Genius - Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice Madhubuti, Haki R. Northwestern University Press . Third World Press 9780883783252 101 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2012
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For over thirty years, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki R. Madhubuti shared a unique literary and personal relationship. In this latest volume of his work, Madhubuti, a renowned poet in his own right, pays tribute to Brooks’ legacy and memory with this collection of poems that he produced during those years. He also offers two essays and a selection of newer poems to express his gratitude and show his great respect for this literary giant.
Haki R. Madhubuti has published more than 28 books, and founded Third World Press, an African American book publishing house, in 1967. He is also a founder of the Institute of Positive Education/New Concept School, co-founder of Betty Discount: Shabazz International Charter School, Barbara A. Sizemore Middle School, and 0.43 DuSable Leadership Academy. Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Brown Glass Windows major, devorah Northwestern University Press . Curbstone Books 9781880684870 200 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2002
Author picture: Brown Glass Windows is the story of the Evermans, an African-American family in the Filmore District of San Francisco and the tragic history of their son, Ranger, who returns scarred from his experiences in Vietnam and struggles with drug addiction.
devorah major is an African-American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. She is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Among her books are Open Weave, Street Smarts, and Where River Meets Ocean.
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Street Smarts major, devorah Northwestern University Press . Curbstone Books 9781880684276 56 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 4/1/1996
Author picture: A stunning new voice in African-American poetry, Devorah Major in street smarts explores the hardships of life in the streets, the damage that is done there, and the strategies for survival.
devorah major is an African-American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. She is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco and the author of Brown Glass Windows, Open Weave, and Where River Meets Ocean.
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How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love Miller, E. Ethelbert Northwestern University Press . Curbstone Books 9781931896047 64 pages paperback $13.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2004
Author picture: In this wide-ranging collection of lyrics, dealing with such themes as family, love, racism, and war, E. Ethelbert Miller sets his scenes against the backdrop of the stark realities of contemporary life, here and abroad.
E. Ethelbert Miller was born in New York City in 1950. Author of eight collections of poetry, he is the founder and director of the Ascension Poetry Reading Series and the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University.
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Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone: Poems Nurse, Thiahera Northwestern University Press . 9780810140196 48 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize
Author picture: Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone is a celebration that the black girl will always dance, in the church basement, a grandmother's funeral repast--she dances until she hits the floor, in her joy . . . and her grief.
THIAHERA NURSE is from Hollis, Queens, by way of Trinidad and Tobago. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work can be found in The Rumpus, Callaloo, The Offing, and in the forthcoming edition of The BreakBeat Poets Anthology.
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Miss Muriel and Other Stories Petry, Ann Northwestern University Press . 9780810135567 320 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: July 2017 6 x 9 inches. Introduction by Jamilah Lemieux.
Author picture: A new edition of Ann Petry’s classic collection of short stories. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry’s stories capture the essence of African American experience in the 1950s and 1960s.
ANN PETRY (1908–1997) was a reporter, pharmacist, social worker, and community activist. She illuminated the range of black and white experience in her novels, short stories, and other writing. Her book The Street was the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.
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The Narrows: A Novel Petry, Ann Northwestern University Press . 9780810135512 464 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: July 2017 6 x 9 inches. Introduction by Keith Clark.
Author picture: A new edition of Ann Petry’s classic novel. Link Williams is a handsome and brilliant Dartmouth graduate who tends bar for a lack of better opportunities for an African American man in a staid mid-century Connecticut town. A story of furtive encounters against the rigid and uncompromising social codes of their town and times.
ANN PETRY (1908–1997) was a reporter, pharmacist, social worker, and community activist. She illuminated the range of black and white experience in her novels, short stories, and other writing. Her book The Street was the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.
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Closest Pronunciation: Poems Roberson, Ed Northwestern University Press . 9780810128927 36 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 1/31/2013
Author picture: POETRY - Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realization of a poem.
Ed Roberson is the author of eight books of poetry, including Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In, a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and a recent collection, The New Wing of the Labyrinth (Singing Horse Press, 2010). His Atmosphere Conditions was selected for the National Poetry Series and nominated for the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. His latest book, To See the Earth Before the End of the World, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in fall 2010. A recipient of the Lila Wallace Writers' Award and the 2008 Shelley Memorial Discount: Award from the Poetry Society of America, he is Distinguished Artist in Residence at 0.25 Northwestern University. Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse Simmonds, Kevin Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly Books 9780810143746 160 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: 7/1/2021 6 X 9. WORLD FIRST PUBLICATION
Author picture: A lyrical portrait of one of history’s greatest opera singers and a self-portrait of the author, who “discovered in her whirling howl my human noise”
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In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States - NEW EDITION Ali, Omar H. Ohio University Press . 9780821424346 304 pages paperback $29 Pub Date: 9/22/2020
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This new edition of Ali’s groundbreaking narrative includes an epilogue by independent political analyst and leader Jacqueline Salit. New material addresses the historic presidencies of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, as well as the rising tide of independent and anti-party sentiments.
Omar H. Ali is dean of Lloyd International Honors College and professor of global and comparative African diaspora history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and was named the Carnegie Foundation North Carolina professor of the year. Discount: 0.20 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher
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The Negro in the American Rebellion Brown, William Wells Ohio University Press . 9780821415283 336 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: Largely ignored by scholars, 'The Negro in the American Rebellion'--written by a former slave--is a powerful transitional text, one that confronted squarely the neo- slavery of the Reconstruction era.
William Wells Brown (circa 1814 – November 6, 1884) was a prominent African- American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer.
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Northern Stories Of Charles W Chestnutt Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Ohio University Press . 9780821415436 224 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: The first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War. But he also produced a large body of what might best be called his ‘Northern writings, and those works, taken together, describe the intriguing ways in which America was reshaping itself at the turn of the last century.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 17, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South.
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Collected Novels Of Paul Laurence Dunbar Dunbar, Paul Laurence Ohio University Press . 9780821420072 464 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2012
Author picture: In the prime of his literary career, between 1898 and 1902, Dunbar published The Uncalled, The Love of Landry, The Fanatics, and The Sport of the Gods. Despite widespread critical interest, the novels have been largely subordinated to his short stories and poetry. The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar redresses this imbalance by showing that the novels are also reflections of his exceptional literary talent.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was born to two former slaves. While working as an elevator operator, he published his first poetry collection. His second collection in 1895 thrust him into the national spotlight and garnered praise from the white and black elite. He ultimately produced twelve books of poetry, several stories and plays, Discount: and five novels. 0.46 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher
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Complete Stories Of Paul Laurence Dunbar Dunbar, Paul Laurence Ohio University Press . 9780821418833 560 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar' showcases Dunbar's gifts as a writer of short fiction and provides key insights into the tensions and themes of Dunbar's literary achievement. The 103 stories Dunbar wrote between 1890 and 1905 reveal his attempts to maintain his artistic integrity while struggling with America's racist stereotypes.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was born to two former slaves. While working as an elevator operator, he published his first poetry collection. His second collection in 1895 thrust him into the national spotlight and garnered praise from the white and black elite. He ultimately produced twelve books of poetry, several stories and plays, and five novels. Discount: 0.46 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher
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In His Own Voice: Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar Dunbar, Paul Laurence Ohio University Press . 9780821414224 344 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: In His Own Voice collects more than a hundred works in six genres. Featured are the previously unpublished play Herrick and Dunbar's subversion of the minstrel tradition into one-acts that have been largely ignored for a century.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was born to two former slaves. While working as an elevator operator, he published his first poetry collection. His second collection in 1895 thrust him into the national spotlight and garnered praise from the white and black elite. He ultimately produced twelve books of poetry, several stories and plays, and five novels.
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Raggin’ On: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson’s House and Journals Genschaft, Carole M. (editor) Ohio University Press . 9780578687360 208 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 9/29/2020 12 x 9. 200 illustrations. Foreword by Nannette V. Maciejunes.
Author picture: The accompaniment to a landmark exhibition of MacArthur Fellow Amina Robinson’s work, which revolved around her family and community, African American history, travel, and the stories her elders told her.
Carole M. Genshaft is curator-at-large at the Columbus Museum of Art and enjoyed a close relationship with Aminah Robinson beginning in the late 1980s. Since Robinson’s death in 2015, she has supervised the organization and documentation of the artist’s estate, which was left to the Museum.
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Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio Taylor, Nikki M. Ohio University Press . 9780821421604 152 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 12/25/2016
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The story of Margaret Garner, the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. This story was the inspiration for Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Nikki M. Taylor is a professor of African American history at Texas Southern University. Her other books include Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community, 1802–1868 and America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark.
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Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 Andrews, William L. Oxford University Press . 9780197547311 408 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2020
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Slavery and Class in the American South reveals how work, family, and connections that made for socioeconomic differences among the enslaved of the South are critical components of the American slave narrative.
William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored, edited, or co-edited more than 40 books on African American literature and history.
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If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection Bernier, Celeste-Marie and Taylor, Andrew Oxford University Press . Edinburgh University Press 9781474429283 860 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 9/1/2018 1 b+w and 80 colour illustrations
Author picture: Over 60 previously unpublished speeches, letters and autobiographies and over 20 photographs and prints (many unseen) of Frederick Douglass and his sons from the Walter O. Evans collection. The first extensive study of Frederick Douglass and his family's fight for the cause of liberty during the Civil War and in the Post- Emancipation era.
Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North Burkholder, Zoë Oxford University Press . 9780190605131 320 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2021
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An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to the present.
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An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden Campbell, Mary Schmidt Oxford University Press . 9780195059090 448 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 9/4/2018 24 pp 4-color plates, 75 b/w images
Author picture: The definitive biography of one of the most important and unappreciated artists of the twentieth century that offers a view into the mind a man whose art celebrated the traditions and ceremonies of African American culture. Follows the changing styles and ideas of the artist throughout his life.
Mary Schmidt Campbell is President of Spelman College and Dean Emerita of the Tisch School of the Arts. She served as the vice chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities under former President Barack Obama.
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Swing Along : The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook Carter, Marva Oxford University Press . 9780195108910 208 pages hardcover $36.95 Pub Date: 9/11/2008
Author picture: Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this insightful biography, Marva Griffin Carter offers the first definitive look at this pivotal life's story, drawing on both Cook's unfinished autobiography and his wife Abbie's memoir.
Marva Griffin Carter is an Associate Professor of Music History and Literature in the School of Music at Georgia State University.
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Porter, Steward, Citizen: An African American's Memoir of World War I Christian, Royal A. and McDaniels III, Pellom Oxford University Press . 9780190645205 200 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2017 30 illus.
Author picture: The first public edition of Royal Christian's exceptional memoir, this book expands the literature of World War I in general and the experiences of African Americans specifically. Provides access to the inner workings of the American military, while illuminating the ways in which black men and white men interacted under the banner of service to their country. Also presents an unusual and fascinating portrait of London toward the end of the war and France after the Armistice.
Royal A. Christian (1875-1964) served as valet to Moorhead C. Kennedy, president of the Cumberland Valley Railroad and vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. During World War I he became confidential messenger to Col. Discount: 0.45 Distro: OUP Group: Redsides
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Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora Das, Joanna Dee Oxford University Press . 9780190264871 280 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 6/1/2017 26 illustrations
Author picture: Joins perspectives on dance studies, history, women's studies, and Africana studies and highlights the importance of dance in the African diaspora. Utilizes never- before-seen documents and interviews with Dunham's students, dancers, and colleagues in the United States and Haiti.
Joanna Dee Das is an assistant professor of dance at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her PhD in history and is a Certified Dunham Technique instructor. Her writing has appeared in Dance Research Journal, Journal of American History, Journal of African American History, Journal of Urban History, and Studies in Musical Theatre.
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My Bondage and My Freedom Douglass, Frederick Oxford University Press . 9780198820710 448 pages paperback $11.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2020 Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier. Oxford World’s Classics.
Author picture: Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is a literary, intellectual and philosophical tour-de-force in which he betrays his determination not only to speak but to write 'just the word that seemed to me the word to be written by me.' This volume also reproduces Frederick Douglass's only work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, published in 1853.
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.
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Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick Oxford University Press . 9780199539079 176 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2009 Oxford World's Classics. Edited with an Introduction by Deborah E. McDowell
Author picture: The classic personal account of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights.
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.
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Africa, Its Geography, People and Products and Africa-Its Place in Modern History Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199385737 110 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Introduction by Emmanuel Akyeampong. The
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Written in very accessible prose, these two booklets, originally published in 1930, allowed W. E. B. Du Bois to reach a wide audience with an interest in Africa. What is so incredible about the two Africa booklets is their lasting relevance and value to the study of Africa today. Coupling Du Bois's breadth of scholarship with his passion for the subjects, the analyses in these booklets are integral to the study of Africa. Many of his arguments foreshadowed the issues and debates regarding Africa in the twentieth century. Expertly synthesized in an introduction by Emmanuel Akyeampong, this edition of the two Africa booklets is essential for anyone interested in African history.
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Black Folk Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199383221 338 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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In Black Folk Then and Now, W. E. B. Du Bois embarks on a mission to correct the omissions, misinterpretations, and deliberate lies he detected in previous depictions of black history. An exemplary revisionist exploration of history and sociology, this essay reflects Du Bois's lifelong mission to bring to light the truths of Black history and expose the African peoples' noble heritage.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199385652 672 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014
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Black Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works.
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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387175 166 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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Considered a sequel to Du Bois's wildly popular The Souls of Black Folks, Darkwater revisits many of the same themes with a more militant edge, even revising previously published essays and poems to include in this newer volume. Published in 1920, Darkwater focuses on the political climate following World War I. In ten carefully crafted chapters, Du Bois explores the important issues of that period- labor, capital, politics, gender, education, and international relations-in tandem with an overarching theme of race.
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Dusk of Dawn Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199386710 222 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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Dusk of Dawn, published in 1940, is an explosive autobiography of the foremost African American scholar of his time. Du Bois writes movingly of his own life, using personal experience to elucidate the systemic problem of race.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199386888 184 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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One of the most neglected and obscure books by W. E. B. Du Bois, In Battle for Peace frankly documents Du Bois's experiences following his attempts to mobilize Americans against the emerging conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. A victim of McCarthyism, Du Bois endured a humiliating trial-he was later acquitted-and faced political persecution for over a decade. Part autobiography and part political statement, In Battle for Peace remains today a powerful analysis of race in America.
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John Brown Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199384310 230 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, and Introduction by Paul
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John Brown is W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking political biography that paved the way for his transition from academia to a lifelong career in social activism. This biography is unlike Du Bois's earlier work; it is intended as a work of consciousness- raising on the politics of race. Less important are the historical events of John Brown's life than the political revelations found within the pages of this biography.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387052 330 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014
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Published posthumously in 1968, The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois is his last and most complete autobiography. Covering his life over almost a century of living in America, it's the closest thing we have to a true autobiography of this important scholar and activist. The book, broken up into three parts, delves into the 90-year- old Du Bois's thoughts on everything from his relationship with sex to his storied association with the NAACP to his political persecution during the Cold War years to his many travels abroad
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The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Three, Worlds of Color Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387267 302 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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Du Bois called his epic Black Flame trilogy a fiction of interpretation. It acts as a representative biography of African American history by following one man, Manuel Mansart, from his birth in 1876 until his death. The Black Flame attempts to use this historical fiction of interpretation to recast and revisit the African American experience.
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The Black Flame Trilogy: Book Two, Mansart Builds a School Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199386994 330 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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Du Bois called his epic Black Flame trilogy a fiction of interpretation. It acts as a representative biography of African American history by following one man, Manuel Mansart, from his birth in 1876 until his death. The Black Flame attempts to use this historical fiction of interpretation to recast and revisit the African American experience.
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The Dark Princess: A Romance Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387434 274 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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The Dark Princess is a story of magical love and radical politics, a romance facing obstacles in a white-dominated world. Du Bois's allegorical tale follows Mathew Townes from his political disillusionment to his association with a powerful and seductive revolutionary leader, Kautilya, the princess of the Tibetan Kingdom of Bwodpur. With Dark Princess, Du Bois explores the color line from a fantastical angle while inserting his signature sociological style.
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The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387465 264 pages paperback $25.00 Pub Date: 1/9/2013 Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
Author picture: Published in 1924 in response to growing racial tensions, W. E. B. Du Bois's The Gift of Black Folk explores the contributions African Americans have made to American society, detailing the importance of racial diversity to the United States. Writing for a general audience, Du Bois employs a sweeping scope for his argument, covering the European discovery of America to the twentieth century.
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The Negro Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387144 166 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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Intended as an accessible, up-to-date introduction to African American history by its 1915 publisher, The Negro was much more to W. E. B. Du Bois. The chance to write on African American History for a wide audience became his chance to write a manifesto on African history worldwide. Du Bois focuses on the continent of Africa, giving justice to its oft-neglected positive history. Drawing on anthropological and linguistic literature of the time, Du Bois captures a succinct portrait of African and African American history ready for any reader no matter their prior knowledge.
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The Ordeal of Mansart: The Black Flame Trilogy: Book One Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199386918 294 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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Du Bois called his epic Black Flame trilogy a fiction of interpretation. It acts as a representative biography of African American history by following one man, Manuel Mansart, from his birth in 1876 until his death. The Black Flame attempts to use this historical fiction of interpretation to recast and revisit the African American experience.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387465 5360 pages hardcover $895 Pub Date: 3/15/2007 Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
Author picture: Published in 1924 in response to growing racial tensions, W. E. B. Du Bois's The Gift of Black Folk explores the contributions African Americans have made to American society, detailing the importance of racial diversity to the United States. Writing for a general audience, Du Bois employs a sweeping scope for his argument, covering the European discovery of America to the twentieth century.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199383702 364 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 Introduction by Lawrence Bobo
Author picture: First published in 1899 at the dawn of sociology, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study is a landmark in empirical sociological research. Du Bois was the first sociologist to document the living circumstances of urban Black Americans. The Philadelphia Negro provides a framework for studying black communities, and it has steadily grown in importance since its original publication.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199387021 286 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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Arguably a contender for the Great American Novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece is W. E. B. Du Bois's powerful first novel about Zora, a determined, strong Southern black woman who seeks to transcend race and social class in the late nineteenth century. Following the same path of the Greek myth after which it was named, Du Bois's novel confronts not only economic and political circumstances, but also racial and social issues of the time.
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The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199384129 143 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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More than one hundred years after its first publication in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk remains possibly the most important book ever penned by a black American. This collection of previously published essays and one short story, on topics varying from history to sociology to music to religion, expounds on the African American condition and life behind the "Veil," the world outside of the white experience in America.
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The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199384341 290 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois,
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638 -1870, W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking monograph, recounts the moral failures and missed opportunities of the American Revolution and the consequences of compromising with slavery. As Du Bois's first published work and doctoral dissertation, Suppression lays the groundwork for his early commitment to the study of the African American experience.
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The World and Africa and Color and Democracy Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199386741 382 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 3/1/2014 Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois, Introduction by Mahmood
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Collected in one volume for the first time, The World and Africa and Color and Democracy are two of W E. B. Du Bois's most powerful essays on race. He explores how to tell the story of those left out of recorded history, the evils of colonialism worldwide, and Africa's and African's contributions to, and neglect from, world history. More than six decades after W. E. B. Du Bois wrote The World and Africa and Color and Democracy, they remain worthy guides for the twenty-first century.
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The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B. Oxford University Press . 9780199555833 256 pages paperback $12.95 Pub Date: 1/15/2009 Oxford World's Classics. Edited by Brent Hayes Edwards.
Author picture: Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett Fletcher, Tony Oxford University Press . 9780190887827 320 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 9/1/2018 39 halftones
Author picture: The first biography of one the most famous, influential, and fascinating figures in soul and R&B. Informed by extensive interviews with Pickett's family, friends, and collaborators, and illustrated with never-before-seen personal photographs. Presents detailed first-hand accounts of the legendary recording sessions at Stax, Fame, American and Sigma Studios. Includes fascinating insights into the careers of Pickett's contemporaries, including James Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, Otis Redding, and Bobby Womack.
Tony Fletcher is the bestselling author of major biographies on Keith Moon, the Smiths, and R. E. M., as well as a memoir, a novel, and a history of the New York City music scene. Discount: 0.45 Distro: OUP Group: Redsides
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass Fought, Leigh Oxford University Press . 9780199782376 400 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2017
Author picture: A readable biographical study of the life of the great abolitionist through his relationships with women, from his grandmother and mother, to his wives, daughter, and female collaborators. Fleshes out female figures in Douglass's life - including his grandmother Betsey, mother Harriet, wives Anna Murray and Helen Pitts. Highlights Douglass's complicated relationships with family and a range of female activists, friends, admirers, and adversaries.
Leigh Fought is Assistant Professor of History at LeMoyne College.
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism Gates Jr., Henry Louis Oxford University Press . 9780195136470 352 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 7/23/2014
Author picture: Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as 'eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative' and in The Washington Post Book World as 'brilliantly original,' Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. earned his MA and PhD in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and his B. A. summa cum laude in English literature from Yale University.
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans Holloway, Jonathan Scott Oxford University Press . 9780190915193 152 pages hardcover $18.95 Pub Date: 2/4/ 2021 11 illustrations
Author picture: This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. The Cause of Freedom carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans' present and past have value and meaning.
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The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights Holt, Thomas C. Oxford University Press . 9780197525791 160 pages hardcover $18.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2021 A VSI hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Author picture: In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, re-centering the narrative around the mobilization of ordinary people.
Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago and the author of Children of Fire: A History of African Americans and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century.
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Voices from the Harlem Renaissance Huggins, Nathan Irvin (editor) Oxford University Press . 9780195093605 448 pages paperback $24.99 Pub Date: 1/26/1995
Author picture: The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation and sophistication - the final shaking off of slavery from the minds, spirits, and characters of African Americans.
The late Nathan Irvin Huggins was W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of History and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. His books include The Harlem Renaissance.
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Harlem Renaissance - Updated Edition Huggins, Nathan Irvin Oxford University Press . 9780195063363 384 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 5/2/2007 Foreword by Arnold Rampersad
Author picture: A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as 'brilliant' and 'provocative,' Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture.
Nathan Irvin Huggins was W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and Director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University until his death in 1989.
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The Sweet and Sour Animal Book Hughes, Langston and students from the Harlem School of the Arts Oxford University Press . 9780195120301 48 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 11/20/1997 The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature. Ages 5 and Up, Grades K
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In 26 never-before-published short and wonderfully clever poems, Langston Hughes takes children through both the alphabet and the animal world.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born in Joplin, Missouri, and grew up in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. He moved to New York City when he was 19 years old to attend Columbia University. He was one of the most versatile writers of the artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Though known primarily as a poet, Hughes also wrote plays, essays, novels, and a series of short stories that featured a black Everyman named Jesse B.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jacobs, Harriet Oxford University Press . 9780198709879 320 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 1/1/2016 Oxford World's Classics. Edited by R. J. Ellis.
Author picture: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War. The child and grandchild of slaves -- and therefore forbidden by law to read and write -- Harriet Jacobs was defiant in her efforts to gain freedom and to document her experience in bondage.
Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer.
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880 Kelley, Robin D. G. and Lewis, Earl (editors) Oxford University Press . 9780195181340 320 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 4/28/2005
Author picture: The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians.
Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of African-American Studies at UCLA. Earl Lewis is Provost and the Asa G. Candler Professor of History and African-American Studies at Emory University.
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880 Kelley, Robin D. G. and Lewis, Earl (editors) Oxford University Press . 9780195181357 400 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 4/28/2005
Author picture: The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians.
Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of African-American Studies at UCLA. Earl Lewis is Provost and the Asa G. Candler Professor of History and African-American Studies at Emory University.
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea Lebron, Christopher J. Oxford University Press . 9780190910754 200 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2018
Author picture: Presents a concise and accessible history of the rhetoric and activism that has laid the foundation for the modern #BlackLivesMatter movement. Argues for a renewed focus on the idea of equal standing in society for African Americans, rather than the current focus on policing and laws. Draws from a number of fields, including African American studies, philosophy, and political science to trace the intellectual foundations of contemporary protest strategy.
Christopher J. Lebron is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, which won the APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best First Book Award. Discount: 0.45 Distro: OUP Group: Redsides
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African-American Art Patton, Sharon F. Oxford University Press . 9780192842138 320 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 6/25/1998 A Oxford Paperbacks Publication. 95 color & 53 b/w illustrations.
Author picture: From its origins in early eighteenth century slave communities to the end of the twentieth century, African-American art has made a vital contribution to the art of the United States.
Sharon Patton is Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Professor in History at the University of Michigan.
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Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism Richardson, Allissa V. Oxford University Press . 9780190935535 272 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2020
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Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it.
Allissa V. Richardson is Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School.
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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray Rosenberg, Rosalind Oxford University Press . 9780190053819 514 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2020 31 illustrations
Author picture: Euro-African-American activist Pauli Murray was a feminist lawyer, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. Born in 1910 and identified as female, she believed from childhood she was male. Before there was a social movement to support transgender identity, she devised attacks on all arbitrary distinctions, greatly expanding the idea of equality in the process.
Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Stewart, Jeffrey C. Oxford University Press . 9780190056056 944 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2020
Author picture: Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. The definitive biography of Alain Locke--using previously unavailable primary sources and oral interviews with those who knew Locke personally.
Jeffrey C. Stewart is a Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Composition in Black and White Life of Philippa Schuyler Talalay, Kathryn Oxford University Press . 9780195113938 360 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, Composition in Black and White draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality. Extensive research and personal interviews from around the world make this book not only the definitive chronicle of Schuyler's restless and haunting life, but also a vivid history of the tumultuous times she lived through, from the Great Depression, through the Civil Rights movement, to the Vietnam war. Talalay has created a highly perceptive and provocative portrait of a fascinating woman.
Kathryn Talalay, the recipient of a 1988-1989 Rockefeller Foundation Grant, was on the faculty of Indiana University for fourteen years. The author of numerous articles Discount: and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, she 0.45 is currently archivist and editor at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New Distro: York City. OUP Group: Redsides
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Up from Slavery Washington, Booker T. Oxford University Press . 9780199552399 240 pages paperback $9.95 Pub Date: 1/15/2009 Oxford World's Classics. Edited with an Introduction by William L. Andrews
Author picture: For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington embodied the legendary rise of an American self-made man, and his autobiography gave voice for the first time to a vast group that had to pull itself up from nothing.
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African- American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African- American community.
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Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America Wood, Peter H. Oxford University Press . 9780195158236 136 pages paperback $13.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2003 Ages 10 and Up, Grades 5 and Up
Author picture: Engaging and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the history of slavery and the struggle for freedom before the United States became a nation.
Peter H. Wood is a professor of history at Duke University. Dr. Wood is the author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion, which was nominated for the National Book Award. He is the coauthor of Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States and Natives and Newcomers: The Way We Lived in North Carolina Before 1770.
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Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings Bennett, Gwendolyn Penn State University Press . 9780271080970 248 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 6/1/2018
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Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissance and a strong advocate for racial pride and the rights of African American women.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1902 – May 30, 1981) was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Though often overlooked, she herself made considerable accomplishments in poetry and prose. She is perhaps best known for her short story Wedding Day, which was published in the first issue of Fire!! Discount: 0.40 Distro: Penn State Group: BRG
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City Darden, Robert Penn State University Press . 9780271075761 296 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 9/1/2016
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Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and ’40s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues that journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and sustaining those most heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement.
Robert Darden is Associate Professor of Journalism, Public Relations, and New Media at Baylor University. He is a former gospel music editor for Billboard magazine.
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Nothing but Love: in God’s Water: Volume 1 - Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Darden, Robert Penn State University Press . 9780271050843 176 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: September 2014
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The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African Americans challenge and overcome slavery, subjugation, and suppression.
Robert Darden is Associate Professor of Journalism, Public Relations, and New Media at Baylor University. He is a former gospel music editor for Billboard magazine.
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Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863– 1865 Davis, Emilie Penn State University Press . 9780271063683 160 pages paperback $16.95 Pub Date: 6/13/2014
Author picture: 5 x 8. 24 black and white photographs. 24 maps. Edited by Judith Giesberg.
In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the Civil War’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look into how the war was lived as a part of personal, everyday life, as its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected life in a northern city with a vibrant black community.
Emilie "Emily" Frances Davis (February 18, 1839 – December 26, 1889) was a free African-American woman living in Philadelphia during the U.S. Civil War. She wrote three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 recounting her perspective on the Emancipation Proclamation, the battle of Gettysburg, and the mourning of President Lincoln. Judith Giesberg is Professor of History at Villanova University. Discount: 0.40 Distro: Penn State Group: BRG
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Who Is Black?: One Nation’s Definition Davis, F. James Penn State University Press . 9780271021720 232 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date: 2001 6 x 9.
Author picture: Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is Black? has become a staple in college classrooms throughout the United States, helping students understand this nation’s history of miscegenation and the role that the 'one-drop rule' has played in it. Honored in 1992 as an 'Outstanding Book' by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.
F. James Davis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Illinois State University and the author of Society and the Law (1962), Social Problems (1970), and Minority- Dominant Relations (1978).
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Religion Around Billie Holiday Fessenden, Tracy Penn State University Press . 9780271080956 248 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2018 Religion Around Series. 5.5 × 8.5
Author picture: Religion Around Billie Holiday examines the spiritual and religious forces that left their mark on the performer during her short but overwhelmingly influential life.
Tracy Fessenden is Steve and Margaret Forster Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
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Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir Flory, Dan Penn State University Press . 9780271033457 408 pages paperback $37.95 Pub Date: 6/28/2008 6 x 9. 35 illustrations
Author picture: In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir to black American cinema.
Dan Flory is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University.
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Artistic Friendship: Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno Robinson, Joyce Henri Penn State University Press . 9780911209532
paperback $19 Pub Date: 7.5 x 8.5. 72 illustrations
Author picture: In honor of the centennial of Beauford Delaney's birth, An Artistic Friendship examines the close artistic and personal friendship between two important American artists of the twentieth century, Beauford Delaney and Lawrence Calcagno. An unlikely pair, the two became friends in Paris in the early 1950s and remained close over the next twenty years until Delaney's deteriorating mental health removed him from his orbit of friends and family.
Joyce Henri Robinson is Curator at the Palmer Museum of Art and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History at Penn State University.
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Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor Sheehan, Tanya Penn State University Press . 9780271081106 192 pages hardcover $49.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2018 80 color/12 b&w illustrations. 9 x 10.
Author picture: Takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century.
Tanya Sheehan is William R Kenan Jr Associate Professor of Art at Colby College She is the author of Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, also published by Penn State University Press.
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Novels of Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923–1933 Singh, Amritjit Penn State University Press . 9780271012087 184 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 1/1/1976 6 x 9. illustrations
Author picture: The twelve writers discussed are Bontemps, Cullen, DuBois, Redmon Fauset, Fisher, Hughes, Larsen, McKay, Schuyler, Thurman, Toomer, and White.
Amritjit Singh is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Rhode Island College. He is author of The Magic Circle of Henry James (1989) and The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations (1989).
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Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World Stewart, Carole Lynn Penn State University Press . 9780271090238 232 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2021
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Both before and after the Civil War, white Americans often associated alcohol and drugs with blackness and enslavement. Carole Lynn Stewart traces how African American reformers, including William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E W Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith, mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom—a freedom that draws on themes of abolitionism and temperance not only as principles and practices for the inner life but as the ordering structures for forms of culture and society.
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Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness VanDiver, Rebecca Penn State University Press . 9780271086040 232 pages hardcover $59.95 Pub Date: 10/15/2020
Author picture: A critical analysis of the art and career of African American painter Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998).
Rebecca VanDiver is Assistant Professor of African American Art at Vanderbilt University.
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Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature Wilburn, Reginald A. Penn State University Press . Duquesne University Press 9780271087290 406 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2020
Author picture: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies.
Offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors’ rebellious appropriations of Milton and his canon. Wilburn engages African Americans’ transatlantic negotiations with perhaps the preeminent freedom writer in the English tradition.
Reginald A. Wilburn is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, where he teaches African American literature and drama, women's literary traditions, and intertextuality studies.
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Breaching Jericho's Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life Ballard, Allen B. SUNY Press . 9781438436227 257 pages paperback $23.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2015
Author picture: An award-winning African American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadelphia childhood in the 1930s to midcentury Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.
Allen B. Ballard is Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University at Albany–SUNY and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at City College of New York.
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Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts Bennett, Juda SUNY Press . 9781438453569 215 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2015
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Juda Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the College of New Jersey and author of The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature.
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Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison Bouson, J. Brooks SUNY Press . 9780791444245 288 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 12/2/1999 SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
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J. Brooks Bouson is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago. She is the author of The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self and Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.
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Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment Evans, Stephanie Y. SUNY Press . 9781438451541 310 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 6/1/2014
Author picture: A resource guide that uses African American memoir to address a variety of issues related to mentoring and curriculum development.
Stephanie Y. Evans is Associate Professor of African American Studies, Africana Women's Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta University.
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Sankofa: African American Perspectives on Race and Culture in US Doctoral Education Felder Small, Pamela / Barker, Marco J. / Gasman, Marybeth (editors) SUNY Press . 9781438478005 242 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2021
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Explores the complex interplay of race and culture in the doctoral experiences of African American students.
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Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement Fendrich, James Max SUNY Press . 9780791413241 229 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 3/2/1993 SUNY series in African American Studies
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James Max Fendrich is Professor of Sociology at Florida State University.
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Freedom in Laughter: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement Frierson, Malcolm SUNY Press . 9781438479064 186 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2021 SUNY series in African American Studies
Author picture: Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin' circuit to the mainstream.
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Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow Gilpin, Patrick J. and Gasman, Marybeth SUNY Press . 9780791458983 334 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 10/23/2003
Author picture: A compelling biography of a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an eminent Chicago-trained sociologist, and a pioneering race relations leader.
After a career as a university history professor for many years, Patrick J. Gilpin was admitted to the Texas State Bar and began practicing law in 1980. His practice is primarily in the area of civil rights. Marybeth Gasman is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora: The New Urban Challenge Green, Charles SUNY Press . 9780791434161 410 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 7/10/1997 SUNY series in African American Studies
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Charles Green is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College. He is coauthor of The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era Henderson, Errol A. SUNY Press . 9781438475424 514 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2020 SUNY series in African American Studies. 6 x 9
Author picture: Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ‘70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.
Errol A. Henderson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of several books, including African Realism? International Relations Theory and Africa’s Wars in the Postcolonial Era.
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Black Power in the Suburbs: The Myth or Reality of African American Suburban Political Incorporation Johnson, Valerie C. SUNY Press . 9780791455289 239 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 9/26/2002
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The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.
Valerie C. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith Jones, Alethia and Eubanks, Virginia (editors) SUNY Press . 9781438451145 354 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2014
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Reveals a remarkable woman's life and her contributions to social justice movements related to Civil Rights, feminism, lesbian and gay liberation, anti-racism, and Black feminism.
Alethia Jones is Director of Education and Leadership Development at 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Virginia Eubanks is Associate Professor of Women s Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Barbara Smith is Public Service Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
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Knowledge, Power, and Black Politics: Collected Essays Jones, Mack H. SUNY Press . 9781438449081 318 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2015 SUNY series in African American Studies
Author picture: Develops an alternative framework for describing and explaining African American politics and the American political system and applies it to a number of case studies.
Mack H. Jones is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University and the coauthor (with Lucius J. Barker and Katherine Tate) of African Americans and the American Political System, Fourth Edition.
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Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice Jordan-Zachery, Julia S. and Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (editors) SUNY Press . 9781438470948 314 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2019
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Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Director of Black Studies and Professor of Public and Community Service at Providence College. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
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Race Still Matters: The Reality of African American Lives and the Myth of Postracial Society Kiuchi, Yuya SUNY Press . 9781438462721 412 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2017
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Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.
Yuya Kiuchi is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University.
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After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness Leonard, David J. SUNY Press . 9781438442068 286 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2012 SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
Author picture: Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the 'Palace Brawl' of 2004.
David J. Leonard is Associate Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University.
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The Spike Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking Letort, Delphine and Reid, Mark A. SUNY Press . 9781438457628 226 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2016 SUNY series in African American Studies
Author picture: A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.
Delphine Letort is Associate Professor of English at the Université du Maine in Le Mans, France.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation Loevy, Robert D. SUNY Press . 9780791433621 390 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 6/30/1997
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Robert D. Loevy is Professor of Political Science at Colorado College. He is the author of To End All Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process, the latter published by SUNY Press. He is also the co-author of Colorado Politics and Government: Governing the Centennial State (with Thomas E.
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Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart O'Reilly, Andrea SUNY Press . 9780791460764 243 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 4/8/2004
Author picture: Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.
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Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction Patton, Venetria K. SUNY Press . 9780791443446 204 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 11/4/1999 SUNY series in African American Studies
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Venetria K. Patton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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Race, Place, and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America Rose, Harold M. and McClain, Paula D. SUNY Press . 9780791403945 316 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 8/14/1990 SUNY series in African American Studies
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Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean SUNY Press . 9781438455006 398 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2016
Author picture: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title LONGLISTED - 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award, presented by the American Library in Paris Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French and African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the coeditor of Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness and the translator of a collection of Paulette Nardal's essays, Beyond Negritude: Essays from Woman in the City.
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New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory Singer, Alan J. SUNY Press . 9781438469706 160 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2018
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Examines slavery, abolition, and race in the United States with a special focus on New York State.
Alan J. Singer is Professor of Education at Hofstra University and the author of New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth.
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What Has This Got to Do with the Liberation of Black People?: The Impact of Ronald W. Walters on African American Thought and Leadership Smith, Robert C. and Johnson, Cedric SUNY Press . 9781438450926 419 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2015
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A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading post-civil rights era African American political theorist and strategist.
Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University.
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Race, Class, and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion Smith, Robert C. and Seltzer, Richard SUNY Press . 9780791409466 222 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 7/1/1992 SUNY series in African American Studies
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Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Richard Seltzer is Associte Professor of Political Science at Howard University. -- This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era Smith, Robert C. and Walters, Ronald W. SUNY Press . 9780791431368 416 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 9/26/1996 SUNY series in African American Studies
Author picture: A comprehensive study of African-American politics since the civil rights era argues that the black movement has been co-opted by mainstream institutions, due to the political traditions of blacks themselves and the decay of the black community.
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Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't Smith, Robert C. SUNY Press . 9780791424384 224 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date: 4/22/1996 SUNY series in African American Studies
Author picture: This is the first book to assess in a systematic and theoretically informed way the course and status of racism in the post-civil rights era.
Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University.
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Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010 Smith, Robert C. SUNY Press . 9781438468662 343 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2018 6 x 9. 14 bw photos. SUNY series in African American Studies.
Author picture: Combines history and biography to interpret the last half century of black politics in America as represented in the life and work of a pivotal African American public intellectual. Author lives in San Francisco, CA.
Robert C. Smith is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University.
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Dimensions of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Beliefs Sullivan, Jas M. / Winburn, Jonathan/ Cross Jr., William E. SUNY Press . 9781438471600 194 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2019 Edited by William E. Cross Jr. 6 x 9. SUNY series in African American Studies
Author picture: A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.
Jas M. Sullivan is Associate Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. Jonathan Winburn is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Social Science Research Lab at the University of Mississippi. William E. Cross Jr. is Clinical Professor of Higher Education and Counseling Psychology at the University of Denver and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity Sullivan, Jas M. and Cross, William E. SUNY Press . 9781438462967 372 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2017 SUNY series in African American Studies Series
Author picture: Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.
Jas M. Sullivan is Associate Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University and the coeditor (with Ashraf M. Esmail) of African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience. William E. Cross Jr. is Clinical Professor at the University of Denver and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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Black Cultural Mythology Temple, Christel N. SUNY Press . 9781438477886 370 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2021
Author picture: Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.
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Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Valdés, Vanessa K. SUNY Press . 9781438465142 202 pages paperback $20.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2018 6 x 9. 9 bw photos.
Author picture: Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.
Vanessa K. Valdés is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York, City University of New York. She is the editor of Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora and the author of Oshun’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas.
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African American Leadership Walters, Ronald W. and Smith, Robert C. SUNY Press . 9780791441466 336 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 4/1/1999 SUNY series in African American Studies
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Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior Walton, Hanes SUNY Press . 9780873959919 388 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 6/30/1985 SUNY series in African American Studies
Author picture: With a view that behavioralism has distorted perceptions of black political activity, Hanes Walton, Jr., here reformulates the assumptions of behavioralism to arrive at a more realistic understanding of the political actions of black Americans.
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Caribbeanization of Black Politics, The: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America Wright Austin, Sharon D. SUNY Press . 9781438468099 256 pages hardcover $95 Pub Date: 3/1/2018
Author picture: 6 x 9. 23 tables, 18 figures. SUNY series in African American Studies.
Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.
Sharon D. Wright Austin is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta , also published by SUNY Press.
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The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America Wright Austin, Sharon D. SUNY Press . 9781438468082 272 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date: 1/2/2019
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Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.
Sharon D. Wright Austin is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta, also published by SUNY Press.
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The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Life in Freedom Armstrong, Douglas V. Syracuse University Press . 9780815637226 464 pages paperback $49.95 Pub Date: 6/14/2021 New York State Series
Author picture: In this book, Armstrong reconstructs and interprets Tubman's public and private life in freedom through integrating his archaeological findings with historical research.
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Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WWII Brandt, Nat Syracuse University Press . 9780815604624 272 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 12/01/96
Author picture: In Harlem at War, Nat Brandt vividly recreates the desolation of black communities during World War II and examines the nation-wide conditions that led up to the Harlem riot of 1943.
Nat Brandt is the author of The Man Who Tried to Burn New York, which won the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, and is a former editor at American Heritage.
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Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis Volume One Djata, Sundiata Syracuse University Press . 9780815608189 294 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 01/30/06 Sports and Entertainment Series
Author picture: While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little has been said of similar accomplishments in tennis.
Sundiata Djata teaches African and African American sports history at Northern Illinois University. He has been published in the Journal of Caribbean Studies, Business and Society Review, Drum, and Sankofa.
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Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis, Volume Two Djata, Sundiata Syracuse University Press . 9780815608981 270 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 05/01/08 Sports and Entertainment Series
Author picture: While much has been written about black triumphs in boxing, baseball, and other sports, little has been said of similar accomplishments in tennis.
Sundiata Djata teaches African and African American sports history at Northern Illinois University. He has been published in the Journal of Caribbean Studies, Business and Society Review, Drum, and Sankofa.
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The Requited Distance: Poems Griffiths, Rachel Eliza Syracuse University Press . Sheep Meadow Press 9781931357913 130 pages paperback $$14.95 Pub Date: 2011 6 1/4 x 8 7/8.
Author picture: “Highly recommended.”—Yusef Komunyakaa.
RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS is a poet, writer, photographer, and painter. A Cave Canem Fellow, she received an MA in English Literature from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her literary and visual work has been published in periodicals including The New York Times, Indiana Review, Black Arts Quarterly, and African American Review. She lives in New York.
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Amnesiac: Poems Harris, Duriel E. Syracuse University Press . Sheep Meadow Press 9781931357746 90 pages paperback $$12.95 Pub Date: 2010 Preface by Reginald Gibbons. 7 illus. 7 x 10.
Author picture: Harris writes about struggle and memory, repression and revelation—the stuff dreams and poetry are made of. Poet, musician, scholar, and singer, Duriel E. Harris has written an amazing book.
DURIEL E. HARRIS is the author of the poetry collection Drag, a multivocal symphony in five movements. An acclaimed poet, performance/sound artist and scholar, her work has been featured and published internationally. Harris holds degrees from Yale University and the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU, and a Ph.
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Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans & Lovely Gun Kocher, Ruth Ellen Syracuse University Press . Sheep Meadow Press 9781937679316 104 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 2/4/2014
Author picture: “I don’t know that I’ve read poems that do longing as beautifully, as bountifully and crushingly as Goodbye Lyric. At nearly every turn we are faced with a speaker who is sorrowfully ravenous for the world, for that which has changed or disappeared. I don’t know exactly how to describe that longing in the context of Kocher’s language, which is lush and precise and like a galaxy swirling in the mouth. It makes something happen in my body unlike almost anything I’ve ever read. It makes me want to touch everything.”—Ross Gay.
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Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd Lloyd, Earl and Kirst, Sean Syracuse University Press . 9780815609926 184 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 08/19/11
Author picture: In 1950, future Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game.
Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game. Sean Kirst is a longtime Upstate journalist, writer, and storyteller who spent nearly 25 years as a columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard. Winner of the 2008 Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing,
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The Missing: Poems McNeil, Rangi Syracuse University Press . Sheep Meadow Press 9781931357098 64 pages paperback $$12.95 Pub Date: 2003 6 1/2 x 9.
Author picture: The first book of a brilliant young African-American poet. Endorsements: “In Rangi McNeil’s poems the person is first, with a rightness that catches my breath. What surprise, what derision, what intense and ungratifiable desire—each poem is well minded, finished off, only a gasp away. Country occasions, urban jump cuts, a speaker alert and unfazed in his angelic recording: solo and social, he lives in our town.”—Marie Ponsot.
RANGI MCNEIL was born and raised in rural North Carolina. He received a B. A. in History from Rice University in 1998.
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Amorous Shepherd: Poems Micheaux, Dante Syracuse University Press . Sheep Meadow Press 9781931357807 64 pages paperback $$13.95 Pub Date: 2010 6 1/2 x 9.
Author picture: “The passionate music woven through Dante Micheaux's Amorous Shepherd emanates out of a deep belief of human possibility and trust. Basic and highly sensual, this collection unfolds with a disrobing of body and soul. Each compressed, terse poem pops with shaped certainty. There isn't anything overly precious in these poems, but only a marvelous sonority and sincerity that go directly for the experienced heart.”—Yusef Komunyakaa.
DANTE MICHEAUX'S poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies, in the United States and abroad. His honors include the Oscar Wilde Award and fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and The New York Times Foundation. Micheaux resides in London and New York City. Discount: 0.45 Distro: Longleaf Group: BRG
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Dolores is Blue / Dolorez is Blues Pinson, Hermine Syracuse University Press . Sheep Meadow Press 9781931357517 188 pages paperback $$12.95 Pub Date: 2007 6 1/2 x 9.
Author picture: “Hermine Pinson speaks and sings for herself and others.”. “Her poetry is visceral: ‘the blood of poetry’ and praise runs through Dolores is Blue/Dolorez is Blues. Like jazz, sorrow transforms itself into joy. She is bookwise, streetwise, cool metaphysical. Her poetry has a backbeat, something of the melody and phrasing of field hollers and church music: a deep, moral undersong. She sings unto others as she would have them sing unto her.”—Stanley Moss.
HERMINE PINSON's poetry, along with short fiction and literary criticism, has appeared in numerous publications including Callaloo, African American Review, and Verse. In 2006, she collaborated with Yusef Komunyakaa and Estella Conwill Majozo on the record Changing the Changes, a fusion of jazz, blues, and spoken Discount: word poetry. She teaches African American literature at the College of William and 0.45 Mary. Distro: Longleaf Group: BRG
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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Free Man Steward, Austin Syracuse University Press . 9780815627210 182 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 02/01/02 Edited and with an Introduction by Graham R. Hodges
Author picture: Originally published in 1861, Austin Steward’s memoir has long been a staple source of first-hand evidence about activism against slavery and racism by freed blacks.
Austin Steward (1793 – February 15, 1869) was an African-American abolitionist and author. He was born a slave and escaped from Virginia at about age 21, settling in Rochester, New York, and then Canada. His autobiography, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, was published in 1857.
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Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903– 2003 Williams Jr., Roland Leander Syracuse University Press . 9780815630050 224 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 8/18/2018
Author picture: Series: Television and Popular Culture. 9 black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index. 6 x 9
Charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film.
Roland L. Williams, Jr. is associate professor in the Department of English at Temple University. He is the author of African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom.
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African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Sources Asante, Molefi Kete and Abarry, Abu S. (editors) Temple University Press . 9781566394031 848 pages paperback $45.95 Pub Date: African American Studies
Author picture: This comprehensive volume brings together documents from the richly textured intellectual history of Africa and the diaspora.
Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and author of several books, including The Afrocentric Idea (Temple) and The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans. Abu S. Abarry is Assistant Chair of African American Studies at Temple University.
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The Afrocentric Idea - Revised and Expanded Edition Asante, Molefi Temple University Press . 9781566395953 256 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and postmodernists updates this classic.
Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and chair of African-American Studies at Temple University, and author of several books, including African Intellectual Heritage (with Abu S. Abarry, Temple) and The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.
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Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio Barlow, William Temple University Press . 9781566396677 334 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: In Voice Over, a celebration and history, William Barlow explores the entire landscape of black radio from the early days - when the white public accepted the black-face buffoonery of The Amos and Andy Show and Beulah as a fair depiction of African American Life - to the rise of personality jocks and the contemporary scene of corporate buyouts and uncertain fate.
William Barlow is Professor, Department of Radio, Television, and Film, at Howard University and the author of ‘Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture’ (Temple).
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Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin Bernier, Celeste-Marie Temple University Press . 9781439912744 552 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2017 32 COLOR PLATES, 30 HALFTONES
Author picture: A majestic biography of the pioneering African American artist.
Celeste Bernier is Associate Professor of American Literature, University of Nottingham.
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The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line Bush, Roderick Temple University Press . 9781592135738 264 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date:
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The End of White World Supremacy explores a complex issue--integration of Blacks into White America--from multiple perspectives: within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice.
Roderick Bush (1945-2013) was an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University in New York City.
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Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia Cross Jr., William E. Temple University Press . 9781439921050 192 pages hardcover $74.5 Pub Date: 6/25/2021 5.5 x 8.25, 4 tables, 2 figs., bibl., index.
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Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and Eudaimonia Cross Jr., William E. Temple University Press . 9781439921067 192 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 6/25/2021 5.5 x 8.25, 4 tables, 2 figs., bibl., index.
Author picture: In Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair, Cross revisits his ground-breaking model on Black identity awakening known as Nigrescence, connects W. E. B. DuBois’s concept of double consciousness to an analysis of how Black identity is performed in everyday life, and traces the origins of the deficit perspective on Black culture to scholarship dating back to the 1930s.
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Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity Cross, William Temple University Press . 9780877229490 296 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: Explodes the myth that self-hatred is the dominant theme in Black identity. This book, using a thorough review of social scientific literature on Negro identity conducted between 1936 and 1967, demonstrates that important themes of mental health and adaptive strength have been frequently overlooked by scholars, both Black and White.
William E. Cross Jr. is the recipient of the 2020 Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Applications of Psychology, American Psychological Association.
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The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood Curry, Tommy J. Temple University Press . 9781439914861 306 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 7/1/2017 6 x 9, notes, bibliography, index
Author picture: Introduces the conceptual foundations for Black Male Studies, going beyond gender theories that cast the Black Male as a pathological aspiring patriarch.
TOMMY J. CURRY is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University.
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Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America Dubin, Murray and Biddle, Daniel Temple University Press . 9781592134663 632 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2017 19 halftones, index
Author picture: The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.
Murray Dubin, author of South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories and the Melrose Diner, was a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer for 34 years before leaving the newspaper in 2005.
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Black Regions of the Imagination: African American Writers between the Nation and the World Dunbar, Eve Temple University Press . 9781439909430 214 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:
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Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation.
Eve Dunbar is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College.
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Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon Ezra, Michael Temple University Press . 9781592136629 248 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: Sporting
Author picture: In Muhammad Ali, Michael Ezra considers the boxer who calls himself ‘The Greatest’ from a new perspective. He writes about Ali's pre-championship bouts, the management of his career and his current legacy, exploring the promotional aspects of Ali and how they were wrapped up in political, economic, and cultural ‘ownership.
Michael Ezra is Chair of the American Multicultural Studies Department at Sonoma State University.
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Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing Gifford, Justin Temple University Press . 9781439908112 216 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date:
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The first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights era.
Justin D. Gifford is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Whisper Not: The Autobiography of Benny Golson Golson, Benny and Merod, Jim Temple University Press . 9781439913338 328 pages hardcover $39.50 Pub Date: June 2016 32 halftones. 6 x 9.
Author picture: A funny, touching, and insightful memoir of one of the last surviving members of the greatest generation of American jazz musicians.
BENNY GOLSON is an NEA Jazz Master, composer, arranger, and saxophonist. JIM MEROD has recorded a veritable ‘who's who’ of jazz greats under his BluePort Jazz label.
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The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century Grant, Keneshia N. Temple University Press . 9781439917466 202 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 2/14/2020
Author picture: Approx. 218 pp., 5.25 x 8.5, 12 tables, 1 figs., 3 halftones, 1 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index.
The Great Migration significantly changed the way Democratic Party elites interacted with Black communities in northern cities, Detroit, New York, and Chicago. Many white Democratic politicians came to believe the growing pool of Black voters could help them reach their electoral goals—and these politicians often changed their campaign strategies and positions to secure Black support.
Keneshia N. Grant is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University.
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Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940 Gregg, Robert Temple University Press . 9781566396646 272 pages paperback $30.95 Pub Date:
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Robert Gregg is Assistant Professor of History at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and currently a Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. ‘Gregg's work is nicely nuanced, convincingly supported, and attractively presented. His work will undoubtedly be useful to both social and religious historians in advancing their understanding of this pivotal period in American (and African-American) history.
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Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film Guerrero, Ed Temple University Press . 9781566391269 255 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: Culture and The Moving Image
Author picture: Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic-African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. These images persist despite blacks' irrepressible demands for emancipated images and a role in the industry. Although starkly racist portrayals of blacks in early films have gradually been replaced by more appealing characterizations, the legacy of the plantation genre lives on in Blaxpoitation films, the fantastic racialized imagery in science fiction and horror films, and the resubordination of blacks in Reagan-era films.
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The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond Harris, Leonard (editor) Temple University Press . 9780877228295 342 pages paperback $36.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: Important writings on cultural pluralism, value relativism, and critical relativism.
Leonard Harris is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Morgan State University.
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Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces Harrison, Valerie I. and D'Angelo, Kathryn Peach Temple University Press . 9781439919958 194 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: 11/27/2020 2 color illustrations
Author picture: Invites readers into a conversation on how best to raise black children in white families and white communities.
VALERIE I. HARRISON is the Senior Advisor to the President for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Temple University. KATHRYN PEACH D’ANGELO is the Assistant Vice President for Finance and Administration at Temple University.
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Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina Temple University Press . 9780877229568 248 pages paperback $30.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook-an underground cultural institution created by the black working class-together with other dance arenas in African-American culture.
Katrina Hazzard-Gordon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, Camden, and the founder and director of the Diaspora Dance Theatre and Research Group.
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I Walked With Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath Heath, Jimmy and McLaren, Joseph Temple University Press . 9781439901984 344 pages hardcover $39.50 Pub Date: Foreword by Bill Cosby, introduction by Wynton Marsalis.
Author picture: A life in music portrayed by an NEA Jazz Master and his legendary friends.
Jimmy Heath is widely recognized as one of the greats in jazz. A saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator, Heath grew up in Philadelphia with his renowned brothers, Percy, the longtime bassist with the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Albert “Tootie”, a highly respected drummer. The three formed the Heath Brothers Band in the ’70s.
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Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara Holmes, Linda J. and Wall, Cheryl A. (editors) Temple University Press . 9781592136254 320 pages paperback $30.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: In Savoring the Salt, a host of poets, scholars, writers, political activists and filmmakers recall Toni Cade Bambara, a woman whose voice and vision played a vital role in shaping African American culture in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Linda Janet Holmes is a writer, independent scholar, and activist. She is also co- author of Listen To Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife. Cheryl A. Wall is Professor of English at Rutgers University, and the author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition, and Women of the Harlem Renaissance.
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The End of Empires: African Americans and India Horne, Gerald Temple University Press . 9781592139002 274 pages paperback $30.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: In ‘The End of Empires’, Gerald Horne provides an unprecedented history of the relationship between African Americans and Indians in the period leading up to Indian independence in 1947.
Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of The Counter- Revolution of 1776 and Black Revolutionary.
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The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping Maddox, Lucy Temple University Press . 9781439913185 256 pages hardcover $28.50 Pub Date: February 2016 5 halftones, 1 map, 6.125 x 9.
Author picture: The remarkable story of an 1850s kidnapping of two free black girls in rural Pennsylvania after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
LUCY MADDOX is Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at Georgetown University.
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Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film Massood, Paula Temple University Press . 9781592130030 280 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: Culture and The Moving Image
Author picture: In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Paula J. Massood is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. ‘Black City Cinema stands as an original, important contribution to black cinema's building theoretical and critical discourse. ’ Ethnic and Racial Studies ‘Black City Cinema covers an impressive range of textual and historical ground to reveal ‘the city’ as far more than a frequent setting or theme in Black films. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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The Spike Lee Reader Massood, Paula Temple University Press . 9781592134854 312 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: Looking at the films of the prolific, often controversial, and always provocative director.
Paula J. Massood is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. ‘Black City Cinema stands as an original, important contribution to black cinema's building theoretical and critical discourse. ’ Ethnic and Racial Studies ‘Black City Cinema covers an impressive range of textual and historical ground to reveal ‘the city’ as far more than a frequent setting or theme in Black films.
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Re-Viewing James Baldwin Miller, D. Quentin Temple University Press . 9781566397377 312 pages paperback $35.95 Pub Date: Foreword by David Adams Leeming.
Author picture: This new collection of essays presents a critical reappraisal of James Baldwin's work, looking beyond the commercial and critical success of some of Baldwin's early writings such as ‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’ and ‘Notes of a Native Son’. Focusing on Baldwin's critically undervalued early works and the virtually neglected later ones, the contributors illuminate little-known aspects of this daring author's work and highlight his accomplishments as an experimental writer.
D. Quentin Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN.
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Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution Mullen, Bill V. Temple University Press . 9781439911105 264 pages paperback $28.95 Pub Date: 4 halftones
Author picture: A political biography that presents W.E.B. Du Bois as a life-long global revolutionary, not simply an African American reformer.
Bill V. Mullen is a Professor of American Studies at Purdue University.
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God Is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler Nanda, Aparajita and Crosby, Shelby L. (editors) Temple University Press . 9781439921111 253 pages hardcover $104.5 Pub Date: 6/18/2021 6 x 9, notes, bibl., index.
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God Is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler Nanda, Aparajita and Crosby, Shelby L. (editors) Temple University Press . 9781439921128 253 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 6/18/2021 6 x 9, notes, bibl., index.
Author picture: The editors of and contributors to God Is Change heighten our appreciation for the range and depth of Butler’s thinking about spirituality and religion, as well as how Butler’s work—especially the Parable and Xenogenesis series—offers resources for healing and community building.
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Zora Neale Hurston and A History Of Southern Life Patterson, Tiffany Ruby Temple University Press . 9781592132904 248 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: Critical Perspectives On The Past. 3 map(s) 2 figures 10 halftones
Author picture: The inner world of all-black towns as seen through the eyes of Zora Neale Hurston.
Tiffany Ruby Patterson teaches History and Africana Studies at Hamilton College and is Associate Editor of Black Women in United States History, a 16 volume series.
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Biz Mackey, a Giant behind the Plate: The Story of the Negro League Star and Hall of Fame Catcher Westcott, Rich Temple University Press . 9781439915523 208 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2018
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A celebrated ballplayer before African Americans were permitted to join Major League Baseball, Biz Mackey ranks as one of the top catchers ever to play the game.
RICH WESTCOTT has served on the staffs of various newspapers and magazines in the Philadelphia area during more than 50 years as a writer and editor. Westcott is the author of 26 books. The most recent one is Biz Mackey – A Giant Behind the Plate. Other recent books include.
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery Willis, Deborah and Krauthamer, Barbara Temple University Press . 9781439909867 240 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2017 7 x 10, 150 halftones, index
Author picture: What freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era. In their pioneering book, Envisioning Emancipation, renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis and historian of slavery Barbara Krauthamer have amassed 150 photographs—some never before published—from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s.
Deborah Willis, a leading historian and curator of African American photography and culture, is Chair and Professor of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman Coleman, Anita Scott Texas Tech University Press . 9780896726291 224 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2008 Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz.
Author picture: Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in The Crisis and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. Reflecting and illuminating the movement's major themes, her often award-winning stories, delicate and understated, offer subtle commentary on the status of black women, their role in black society, and the position of African Americans in an overwhelmingly white society.
Anita Scott Coleman was a relatively unknown but important western contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico in 1890, Coleman’s mother, Mary Ann, met her father, William Henry Scott, near Fort Elliott, Texas where he served as a buffalo soldier. Anita Scott Coleman became a published Discount: writer who produced more than thirty short stories as the Harlem Renaissance 0.45 emerged. Though never a resident of Harlem, she epitomized the goals of its Distro: writers. She published her earliest work, thirteen short stories, in New Mexico between 1919 and 1925. Anita Scott Coleman died in relative obscurity in Los Longleaf Angeles in 1960 but her writing reminds us that the Harlem Literary Renaissance Group: was national in its scope and impact. BRG
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Becoming Iron Men: The Stories of the 1963 Loyola Ramblers Freedman, Lew Texas Tech University Press . 9780896728776 256 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: February Sport in the American West
Author picture: The greatest untold story in college basketball history. Loyola University Chicago was ahead of its time when racial matters were forefront in a long overdue revolution in civil rights. The Ramblers of the 1962-1963 NCAA college basketball season were pioneers in race relations in sport, though most of the time they were simply playing the sport they loved.
Lew Freedman is a veteran sports journalist who has worked for the Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News, and Philadelphia Inquirer. He has also written books on every sport from baseball to Alaskan dogsled racing. Among his accomplishments is being one of the most decorated award-winners in the United States Basketball Writers Association. He lives in Indiana. Discount: 0.45 Distro: Longleaf Group: BRG
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Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race Johnson, Tekla Agbala Ali Texas Tech University Press . 9780896729834 320 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: August 2016 Foreword by Quintard Taylor. Plains Histories. 6 x 9. index 22 halftones
Author picture: Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognized black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most powerful legislators the state has ever known.
Tekla Ali Johnson earned a Ph. D. in history with an emphasis in African American Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2005. At UNL she studied under World System Theorist Andre Gunder Frank and was introduced to Africology at the Black Studies Department at UNO.
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Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890 Reese, Linda Williams Texas Tech University Press . 9781682830154 200 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: February 2017 Foreword by John R. Wunder. Plains Histories
Author picture: Linda Williams Reese is the first to trace the harsh and often bitter journey of African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations, from their arrival in Indian Territory to free-citizen status in 1890. In doing so, she establishes them as pioneers of the American West equal to their Indian and other Plains sisters.
Linda Williams Reese is a retired history professor who has taught at the University of Oklahoma and East Central University.
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August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s Companion Sternlicht, Sanford Texas Tech University Press . 9780896729001 128 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: February 2015 6 x 9. Index
Author picture: A short companion to the works of the great African American playwright
Sanford Sternlicht is professor emeritus of English at Syracuse University. He has published thirty-two books, including two poetry volumes and books on dramatic literature, literary biography, and military history. A former actor, he also directed many plays.
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Master Suffering Burroughs, CM Tupelo Press . 9781946482389
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Author picture: Faith can be a salve for the inscrutable ailments of the body, but God is unreliable in these poems. The female bodies of Master Suffering want power; they want to control and to correct the suffering they witness and withstand.
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Music for Exile deGannes, Nehassaiu Tupelo Press . 9781946482464
paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2021
Author picture: Trekking from the U.S. to the Caribbean and Canada— wind at their back, ear to the ground, listening for “the logos of what trembles underfoot”— the poems in Music For Exile syncretize a host of lyrical, received and invented forms to beckon a “mythic assemblage,” an aggregation of personal and historical losses, intimate and en masse.
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Darktown Follies Johnson, Amaud Jamaul Tupelo Press . 9781936797394 70 pages paperback $16.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2013
Author picture: Darktown Follies, Amaud Jamaul Johnson's daring and surprising new collection of poems, responds to Black Vaudeville, specifically the personal and professional challenges African American variety performers faced in the early twentieth century.
Born and raised in Compton, California, Amaud Jamaul Johnson was educated at Howard University and Cornell University. His first book, Red Summer (Tupelo, 2006), was winner of the Dorset Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, his honors include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and Cave Canem. teaches in the M.F. A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Red Summer Johnson, Amaud Jamaul Tupelo Press . 9781932195323 54 pages Perfect paperback $16.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2006
Author picture: This haunting debut collection explores a rash of race riots that swept the United States during the summer of 1919. With a tender lyrical quality, reminiscent of the blues, Johnson moves through trauma and personal catastrophe to champion the endurance of the human spirit. These poems are underscored by music so unsettling they leave the voices of the dead lingering in the ear.
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is a native son of Compton, California. He received his BA in English from Howard University and a MPS in African American Studies from Cornell University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford, Amaud is a member of the Cave Canem Workshop. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Rivendell, Poetry Daily, From the Fishouse, and The Cave Canem Discount: Anthology. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin- 0.40 Madison. Distro: Tupelo Group: Wilcher
Author location: Compton CA (native son of Compton CA)
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Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism Bey, Marquis University of Arizona Press . 9780816539437 184 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 02/19/2019 6 x 9. The Feminist Wire Books
Author picture: Essays on radical black feminism and life as a black trans-man in America.
Marquis Bey is a PhD candidate in English at Cornell University. He has received fellowships from Humanities New York and the Ford Foundation.
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Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story Bond, Beverly Greene and O'Donovan, Susan Eva (editors) University of Georgia Press . 9780820356518 240 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2020
Author picture: On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white men lay dead.
BEVERLY GREENE BOND is a professor of history at the University of Memphis. SUSAN EVA O'DONOVAN is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. Discount: 0.40 Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher
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Unreconciled Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South Dunning, Arthur N. University of Georgia Press . 9780820358659 336 pages hardback with dust jacket $32.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2021 6 x 9. a sarah mills hodge fund publication. 17 b&w images.
Author picture: Candid leadership lessons in diversity and change from a veteran educator.
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Building Beloved Communities: The Life and Work of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith Hendrickson, Hildi University of Georgia Press . 9780820359618 256 pages hardback $32.95 Pub Date: 6/1/2021 6 x 9. 20 b&w photos.
Author picture: The first biography of a pathbreaking pastor and civil rights advocate.
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In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Johnson, Ronald Angelo and Power-Greene, Ousmane K. (editors) University of Georgia Press . 9780820360102 328 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 7/1/2021
Author picture: 6 x 9. RACE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1700–1900
The first book devoted to the wide-ranging international lives of African Americans in the nineteenth century.
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In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Johnson, Ronald Angelo and Power-Greene, Ousmane K. (editors) University of Georgia Press . 9780820360089 328 pages hardback $114.95 Pub Date: 7/1/2021
Author picture: 6 x 9. RACE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1700–1900
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A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas Jones, Kelly Houston University of Georgia Press . 9780820360201 280 pages hardback $59.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2021 6 x 9. 5 b&w images. EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
Author picture: A spatial analysis of slavery in Arkansas.
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A Curse upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World Lewis, Kay Wright University of Georgia Press . 9780820355474 292 pages paperback $28.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2019
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How the specter of a race war has justified violence, molded collective memory, and permeated the rhetoric of slavery and freedom.
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The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel Pochmara, Anna University of Georgia Press . 9780820359021 256 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2021
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An analysis of African American fiction between Reconstruction and the First World War.
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The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel Pochmara, Anna University of Georgia Press . 9780820358918 256 pages hardback $114.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2021
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Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779–1865 Ribianszky, Nik University of Georgia Press . 9780820360126 280 pages hardback $59.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2021 6 x 9. 13 b&w images. EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
Author picture: How free people of color in Natchez experienced gender and the passage between states of freedom.
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Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations Stewart, Whitney Nell and Marks, John Garrison (editors) University of Georgia Press . 9780820353111 224 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 4/15/2018 Foreword by Julie Saville
Author picture: New essays that examine emancipation strategies throughout the Atlantic World
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Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War Wells, Jonathan Daniel University of Georgia Press . 9780820360362 198 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2021
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With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre– Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.
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Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels Wyatt, Jean University of Georgia Press . 9780820350868 246 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2017
Author picture: A look at the literary interplay between the depiction of love and its stylistic expression.
JEAN WYATT is a professor of English at Occidental College. She is the author of Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism. Recently, she has written articles on Louise Erdrich's The Painted Drum and Toni Morrison's Tar Baby.
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The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War Horne, Gerald University of Hawaii Press . 9780824831479 264 pages paperback $31 Pub Date:
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The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector.
Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Discount: 0.40 Distro: Hawaii Group: BRG
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They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawai'i - Revised Edition Jackson, Miles M. University of Hawaii Press . 9780824829650 280 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: Social Process in Hawaii, Volume 44. Distributed for the Department of Sociology,
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They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawaii was conceived in 2000 to provide a comprehensive written treatment of the African American presence in Hawaii.
Miles M. Jackson is Professor and Dean Emeritus from the University of Hawaii. He has lived in Hawaii for 32 years and prior to that was with the State University of New York, Atlanta University and Hampton Institute. His research since 1980 has been concerned mostly with African Americans in Hawaii.
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When You Learn the Alphabet Allen, Kendra University of Iowa Press . 9781609386290 160 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 4/15/2019
Author picture: Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter.
Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. Her work has been published in Brevity, December Magazine, and the Rumpus.
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Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010 Connolly, Paula T. University of Iowa Press . 9781609381776 270 pages paperback $42.50 Pub Date: 7/1/2013
Author picture: This first comprehensive study of slavery in children's literature, Slavery in American Children's Literature historicizes the ways generations of authors have drawn upon antebellum literature in their own re-creations of slavery. It examines well-known canonical works alongside others that have ostensibly disappeared from contemporary cultural knowledge but have nonetheless both affected and reflected the American social consciousness in the creation of racialized images.
Paula T. Connolly , associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, is the author of Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner: Recovering Arcadia.
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Douglass in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates Ernest, John (editor) University of Iowa Press . 9781609382803 300 pages paperback $37.50 Pub Date: 11/1/2014
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Offers an introduction to Frederick Douglass by those who knew him.
Professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, John Ernest is the author or editor of twelve books and more than twenty-five journal articles and book chapters.
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Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays on His Work Heuving, Jeanne (editor) University of Iowa Press . 9781609387587 286 pages paperback $90 Pub Date: 6/1/2021 Contemporary North American Poetry Series. 2 b&w figures. 6 × 9.
Author picture: In this first book of essays devoted entirely to Nathaniel Mackey’s work, prominent critics respond to a major oeuvre that is at once affirmative and utopic, negational and dystopic. Drawing on multiple genealogies and traditions, primarily from African and African diaspora histories and cultures, Mackey’s work envisions cultural creation as cross-cultural, based in the damaging relationships of Africans brought against their will to the Americas and the resulting innovations of New World African literatures and music.
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Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work Porter, Horace (editor) University of Iowa Press . 9781609383350 240 pages paperback $24 Pub Date: 4/1/2015
Author picture: Collected essays of well-known and respected African American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Authors discussed: Toni Morrison, National Book Award-winners Ralph Ellison and Charles Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winners Alice Walker and James Alan McPherson, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Margaret Walker
Horace Porter is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Iowa. He currently serves as chair of Iowa's Department of American Studies as well as the chair of African American Studies.
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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community Thomas, Rhondda Robinson University of Iowa Press . 9781609387402 284 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 11/2/2020
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This book traces "Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History," a Clemson English professor's public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution's complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century.
Rhondda Robinson Thomas is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. She is author of Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1770–1903. She is faculty director for Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History, and lives in Anderson, South Carolina. Discount: 0.46 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States Wood, Katelyn Hale University of Iowa Press . 9781609387723 204 pages paperback $35 Pub Date: 6/1/2021
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Cracking Up archives and analyzes Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years.
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Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin Curtis, Susan University of Missouri Press . 9780826215475 288 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2004 Missouri Biography Series
Author picture: By using Scott Joplin's life as a window onto American social and cultural development at the turn of the century, this biography dramatizes the role of one brilliant African American musician in defining the culture of a still-young nation.
Susan Curtis is Professor of History and American Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture, Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin, and The First Black Actors on the Great White Way.
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Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation Endersby, James W. and Horner, William T. University of Missouri Press . 9780826222367 336 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date: 2/15/2021 Studies in Constitutional Democracy. 12 illustrations.
Author picture: This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers.
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Unjustly Dishonored: An African American Division in World War I Ferrell, Robert H. University of Missouri Press . 9780826219169 144 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 5/20/2011 The American Military Experience Series
Author picture: For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division should have been historically significant. It was the only African American division of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Comprised of nearly twenty-eight thousand black soldiers, it fought in two sectors of the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne, the largest and most costly battle in all of U.S. history. Unfortunately, when part of the 368th Infantry Regiment collapsed in the battle's first days, the entire division received a blow to its reputation from which it never recovered. In Unjustly Dishonored: An African American Division in World War I, Robert H. Ferrell challenges long-held assumptions and asserts that the 92nd, in fact, performed quite well militarily.
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The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher - New and Expanded Edition Fisher, Rudolph University of Missouri Press . 9780826218124 352 pages paperback $30 Pub Date: 11/3/2008
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One of the premier writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher wrote short stories depicting the multifaceted black urban experience that are still acclaimed today for their humor, grace, and objective view of Harlem life.
Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934), a Phi Beta Kappan, was a dynamic force during the Harlem Renaissance, participating as an author, orator, and musician while also working full-time as a physician. He was the author of two novels, The Walls of Jericho and The Conjure Man Dies,as well as numerous short stories, book reviews, and scientific articles.
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Racial Equality in America Franklin, John Hope University of Missouri Press . 9780826209122 136 pages paperback $23 Pub Date: 11/1/1993 The Paul Anthony Brick Lectures
Author picture: This is distinguished historian John Hope Franklin's eloquent and forceful meditation on the persistent disparity between the goal of racial equality in America and the facts of discrimination.
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated.
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The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century Franklin, John Hope University of Missouri Press . 9780826209641 104 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: 3/1/1994 The Paul Anthony Brick Lectures
Author picture: Nearly twenty years after his book Racial Equality in America, Franklin addressed the issue of racial inequality. In the Paul Anthony Brick Lectures given at the University of Missouri-Columbia, just one day after the "not guilty" verdict was returned in the trial of Los Angeles police officers for the beating of Rodney King, Franklin delivered a piercing depiction of the color line that persists in America.
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. Discount: 0.47 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917 Glasrud, Bruce A. University of Missouri Press . 9780826222350 256 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 2/15/2021
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Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865–1919, offers insights into the varied experiences of black militia units in the post–Civil War period.
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Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson: A Diary, 1930-1933 Greene, Lorenzo J. University of Missouri Press . 9780826210692 440 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 10/1/1996 Edited by Arvarh E. Strickland.
Author picture: In the summer of 1930, Lorenzo Johnston Greene, a graduate of Howard University and a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, became a book agent for the man with the undisputed title of "Father of Negro History," Carter G. Woodson. With little more than determination, Greene, along with four Howard University students, traveled throughout the South and Southeast selling books published by Woodson's Associated Publishers.
Lorenzo Johnston Greene (1899–1988) was an American educator who taught history at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri from 1933 to 1972. His book, Missouri’s Black Heritage, co-authored by Antonio Holland and Gary Kremer, was a pioneering work on the African-American experience in Missouri. Discount: 0.47 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Guillaume: A Life Guillaume, Robert (with David Ritz) University of Missouri Press . 9780826221612 240 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2017 26 illustrations
Author picture: Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Broadway, Hollywood, and television star Robert Guillaume.
Robert Guillaume (born Robert Peter Williams; November 30, 1927 – October 24, 2017) was an American actor, known for his role as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night and as Benson on the TV series Soap and the spin-off Benson, as well as for voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King. In a career that spanned more than 50 years he worked extensively on stage, television and film.
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Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan University of Missouri Press . 9780826210883 280 pages paperback $28 Pub Date: 8/1/1996
Author picture: The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction. In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories. Harper races the evolution and development of Simple from his 1943 appearance in Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column through his 1965 farewell in the New York Post.
Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper is Fuller E. Callaway Professor of English and Chairperson of English at Spelman College. She is the editor of The Return of Simple and of Short Stories of Langston Hughes.
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The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women During the Slave Era King, Wilma University of Missouri Press . 9780826216601 312 pages paperback $30 Pub Date: 5/1/2006
Author picture: The Essence of Liberty blends social, political, and economic history to analyze black women's experience in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation. Focusing on class and familial relationships, King examines the myriad sources of freedom for black women to show the many factors that, along with time spent in slavery before emancipation, shaped the meaning of freedom.
Wilma King is a historian and the Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Missouri.
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James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader Kremer, Gary R. University of Missouri Press . 9780826222251 264 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 12/1/2020
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James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America. Born a slave, Turner gained freedom when he was a child and received his education in clandestine St. Louis schools, later briefly attending Oberlin College. A self-taught lawyer, Turner earned a statewide reputation and wielded power far out of proportion to Missouri's relatively small black population. After working nearly a decade in Liberia, Turner never regained the prominence he had enjoyed during Reconstruction.
Gary R. Kremer is Executive Director of The State Historical Society of Missouri.
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Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination Marks, Kathleen University of Missouri Press . 9780826214379 176 pages hardcover $40 Pub Date: 1/10/2003
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Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the CRISIS, and American History Sinitiere, Phillip Luke (Editor) University of Missouri Press . 9780826220936 270 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: Edited by Amy Helene Kirschke.
Author picture: By exploring how Crisis responded to critical issues, the essays in Protest and Propaganda provide the first well-rounded, in-depth look at the magazine's role and influence. The authors show how the essays, columns, and visuals published in Crisis changed conversations, perceptions, and even laws in the United States, thereby calling a fractured nation to more fully live up to its democratic creed.
Amy Helene Kirschke is Professor of Art History and History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Phillip Luke Sinitiere is Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston, Texas.
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If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige Spivey, Donald University of Missouri Press . 9780826220141 376 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: Sports & American Culture
Author picture: If You Were Only White explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever--an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy "Satchel" Paige was arguably one of the world's greatest pitchers and a premier star of Negro Leagues Baseball. But in this biography Donald Spivey reveals Paige to have been much more than just a blazing fastball pitcher. Spivey follows Paige from his birth in Alabama in 1906 to his death in Kansas City in 1982, detailing the challenges Paige faced battling the color line in America and recounting his tests and triumphs in baseball.
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E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie Teele, James E. University of Missouri Press . 9780826221506 184 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 1/29/2018
Author picture: Given his status in American sociology, there has been surprisingly little study of Frazier's work. In E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie, a group of distinguished scholars remedies that lack, focusing on his often-scorned Black Bourgeoisie. This in-depth look at Frazier's controversial publication is relevant to the growing concerns about racism, problems in our cities, the limitations of affirmative action, and the promise of self-help.
James Teele is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Boston University.
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A Gallery of Harlem Portraits Tolson, Melvin B. University of Missouri Press . 9780826202802 288 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: Edited by Robert M. Farnsworth.
Author picture: A Gallery of Harlem Portraits is Melvin B. Tolson's first book-length collection of poems. It was written in the 1930s when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University, and will provide scholars and critics a rich insight into how Tolson's literary picture of Harlem evolved. Modeled on Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology and showing the influence of Browning and Whitman, it is rooted in the Harlem Renaissance in its fascination with Harlem's cultural and ethnic diversity and its use of musical forms.
MELVIN B. TOLSON (February 6, 1898 – August 29, 1966) was an American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician. His work concentrated on the Discount: experience of African Americans and includes several long historical poems. 0.47 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Byline, Richard Wright: Articles from the DAILY WORKER and NEW MASSES Wright, Richard University of Missouri Press . 9780826220929 304 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: Edited by Earle V. Bryant.
Author picture: From 1937 to 1938, Wright turned out more than two hundred articles for the Daily Worker, the newspaper that served as the voice of the American Communist Party. Byline, Richard Wright assembles more than one hundred of those articles plus two of Wright's essays from New Masses, revealing to readers the early work of an American icon. As both reporter and Harlem bureau chief, Wright covered most of the major and minor events, personalities, and issues percolating through the local, national, and global scenes in the late 1930s.
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an African-American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures Chin, Elizabeth (editor) University of New Mexico Press . School for Advanced Research Press 9781938645129 192 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 5/14/2014
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This book explores Katherine Dunham’s contribution to anthropology and the ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each other.
Dr. Elizabeth Chin is Professor at the Department of Critical Theory and Social Justice, Occidental College, Los Angeles.
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Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era Davis, Darnella University of New Mexico Press . 9780826362155 312 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2020
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Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier.
Darnella Davis is a lifelong artist, writer, teacher, and scholar. Her publications have focused on education reform and equal opportunity. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Davis now lives in Washington, DC.
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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation and Hilliard, David University of New Mexico Press . 9780826343949 170 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 2008 6 x 9
Author picture: The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities.
The Huey P. Newton Foundation was co-founded in 1993 in Oakland, California, by David Hilliard to honor the legacy of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, who had been killed four years earlier. A member of the Black Liberation Movement, Hilliard was one of the founders of the Black Panther Party.
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Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America Herrick, Dennis F. University of New Mexico Press . 9780826359810 304 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 10/15/2018 11 halftones, 5 maps. 9 x 6
Author picture: In this work Herrick dispels the myths and outright lies about Esteban. His biography emphasizes Esteban rather than the Spaniards whose exploits are often exaggerated and jingoistic in the sixteenth-century chronicles.
Dennis Herrick, a former newspaper reporter, editor, and publisher, is a lecturer emeritus of journalism at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of nine books and numerous articles and short stories, many of them about the Southwest and its Indian peoples. Herrick lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
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Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar Major, Clarence University of New Mexico Press . 9780826356000 160 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2015 5.5 x 8.
Author picture: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. This novel, narrated by Baldy, a Navajo/Hopi guitar player, tells the story of Zuni folk singer Painted Turtle, from her childhood experiences on the reservation to her performances in cantinas in the Southwest.
An award-winning painter and author of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, Clarence Major is a distinguished professor emeritus of twentieth-century American literature at the University of California, Davis.
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A Drama of the Southwest: The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play Toomer, Jean University of New Mexico Press . 9780826356383 192 pages hardcover $45 Pub Date: 2/29/2016 Edited by Carolyn J. Dekker. 2 tables. 6 x 9
Author picture: This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.
Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was an American poet, novelist, and playright. His modernist novel Cane was an inspiration for many Harlem Renaissance authors. Carolyn J. Dekker is an assistant professor of English at Finlandia University.
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Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870-1930 Arata, Laura J. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806164977 304 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2020
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Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852-1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century.
Laura J. Arata is Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University, where she specializes in public history and the history of race and gender in the American West.
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San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Chandler, Robert J. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806144108 264 pages hardcover $36.95 Pub Date: 1/29/2014 8.5 x 11. The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the
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This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist.
Robert J. Chandler, retired as a historian for Wells Fargo Bank, is the author of numerous articles and books on California history, including California: An Illustrated History and California and the Civil War, 1861-1865. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore is Professor Emerita of History, California State University, Sacramento. Discount: 0.40 Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher
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Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman Coleman, Anita Scott University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806139753 240 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 12/15/2008
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Recovers Coleman's life and literary legacy One of the most distinctive and prolific writers of the Harlem Renaissance,
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The Black Regulars, 1866–1898 Dobak, William A. and Phillips, Thomas D. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806157535 384 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 1/16/2017 6 x 9. 19 b&w illus., 2 maps
Author picture: In The Black Regulars, 1866–1898, the authors shed new light on the military justice system, relations between black troops and their mostly white civilian neighbors, their professional reputations, and what veterans faced when they left the army for civilian life.
William A. Dobak, retired from the National Archives, Washington, D.C., is the author of Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853– 1895 and Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867. Retired colonel Thomas D. Phillips is the author of Battlefields of Nebraska and Boots and Saddles: Military Leaders of the American West.
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The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891 Fowler, Arlen L. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806128832 192 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 9/15/1996 5 x 8. 4 b&w illus.
Author picture: After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as “buffalo soldiers” in the Indian wars, nearly overshadowing the critical support role of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantries. Now Arlen L. Fowler brings to light the story of African- American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona.
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Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge Glasrud, Bruce A. and Searles, Michael N. (editors) University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806154060 256 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 9/22/2016
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A long-overdue account of a key group of African Americans in the West.
Bruce A. Glasrud, Professor Emeritus at California State University, East Bay. Michael N. Searles is retired as Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Regents University. Glasrud and Searles are coeditors of Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology. Albert S. Broussard is Professor of History at Texas A&M University.
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Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West Glasrud, Bruce A. and Wintz, Cary D. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806161969 320 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 2/14/2019 Race and Culture in the American West Series. Foreword by Quintard Taylor. Edited
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By considering social justice efforts in western cities and states, Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West convincingly integrates the West into the historical narrative of black Americans' struggle for civil rights.
Bruce A. Glasrud, Professor Emeritus at California State University, East Bay, and retired Arts and Sciences Dean, Sul Ross State University, is the author or editor of more than thirty books. Cary D. Wintz is Distinguished Professor of History at Texas Southern University and the author or editor of fifteen books, including Texas: The Lone Star State.
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Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist Hassan, Amina University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806149165 312 pages hardcover $26.95 Pub Date: 9/22/2015 6.125 x 9.25. Race and Culture in the American West Series - 10. 21 b&w illus.
Author picture: An extraordinary American story and a critical chapter in the annals of racial justice. Miller is a Superior court judge in LA.
Amina Hassan, Ph.D., is an independent historian and award-winning public radio documentarian whose productions include a 13-part series for National Public Radio on how race, class, and gender shape American sports. She currently works as a media content consultant and researcher for The Azara Group.
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History Hill, Karlos K. and Matthews, Kevin University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806168562 290 pages hardcover with dustjacket $34.95 Pub Date: 3/18/2021
Author picture: Historian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before, during, and after the massacre, mostly by white photographers. Some of the images are published here for the first time. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property.
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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend Jackson, Ron J. and White, Spencer Lee University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806147031 352 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 3/2/2015 6 x 9. 15 b&w illus., 5 maps
Author picture: If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, authors Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive figure to his place in the American story.
Ron J. Jackson, Jr., is a professional journalist. Lee Spencer White is an independent researcher, preservationist, and consultant for the History Channel, Dearg Films, and the BBC. Phil Collins is a singer-songwriter, an Alamo history Discount: aficionado, and the author of The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector’s Journey. 0.45 Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Krehbiel, Randy and Hill, Karlos K. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806168715 328 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 1/19/2021
Author picture: Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence. With the clarity and descriptive power of a veteran journalist, author Randy Krehbiel digs deep into the events and their aftermath and investigates decades-old questions about the local culture at the root of what one writer has called a white-led pogrom.
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition Leckie, William H. and Leckie, Shirley A. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806138404 336 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2007 6 x 9. 38 b&w illus., 4 maps
Author picture: Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors have expanded the original research to explore more deeply the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments.
William H. Leckie was the coauthor, with Shirley A. Leckie, of Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin Grierson and His Family and The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Calvary in the West, rev. Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making Discount: of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian. 0.45 Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher
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Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam Maxwell, Jeremy P. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806160061 224 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2018
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An interdisciplinary look at integration in the American military.
Jeremy P. Maxwell is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Postdoctoral Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
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Sweet Freedom's Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869 Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806155623 384 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 10/7/2016 6 x 9. Race and Culture in the American West Series - 12. 26 b&w illus., 1 map
Author picture: The westward migration story from the perspective of black pioneers.
Shirley Ann Wilson Moore is Professor Emerita of History at California State University, Sacramento.
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The Fall of a Black Army Officer: Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper Robinson III, Charles M. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806135212 216 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 10/3/2008 5.5 x 8.5. 17 b&w illus., 1 map
Author picture: Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who became the first African American graduate of West Point. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas, in 1881, he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A court-martial board acquitted him of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. He was then dismissed from the service of the United States. Charles M. Robinson III challenges the assumption that Flipper was railroaded because he was black and finds that Flipper was the author of his own problems.
Charles M. Robinson III is the author of A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War and General Crook and the Western Frontier, both published by the Discount: University of Oklahoma Press. 0.40 Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher
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Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West Ruffin II, Herbert G. and Mack, Dwayne A. (editors) University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806159768 424 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2018 Foreword by Quintard Taylor. 18 B&W ILLUS., 3 MAPS, AND 5 TABLES. 6 x 9
Author picture: Multiple perspectives on the black western experience from 1900 to 2015.
Herbert G. Ruffin II is Associate Professor of History and Chair of African American Studies at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Dwayne A. Mack is Professor and holds the Carter G. Woodson Chair in African American History at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. Quintard Taylor is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990 Ruffin II, Herbert G. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806144368 352 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 3/28/2014 6 x 9. Race and Culture in the American West Series - 7. 26 b&w illus., 6 maps, 9
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Uninvited Neighbors is the first book to explore fully the history of African Americans in Santa Clara Valley. Herbert G. Ruffin examines black life and political thought in the valley from its earliest days as part of Spanish California (when the black population approached 25 percent) to the complexities of race relations in the valley’s current incarnation as a suburban, tech-oriented business center.
Herbert G. Ruffin II is Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Syracuse University.
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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit Spurgeon, Ian Michael University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806168791 456 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 2/9/2021
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African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 Taylor, Quintard and Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson (editors) University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806139791 400 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2008 6 x 9. 10 b&w illus.
Author picture: African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 is the first major historical anthology on the topic. The editors argue that African American women in the West played active, though sometimes unacknowledged, roles in shaping the political, ideological, and social currents that have influenced the United States over the past three centuries.
Quintard Taylor is Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington, Seattle. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore is Professor Emerita of History, California State University, Sacramento.
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Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution Van Buskirk, Judith L University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806161877 312 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 7/2/2018 6 x 9. Campaigns and Commanders Series 59. 13 b&w illus.
Author picture: Examines how the struggle for independence moved from the battlefield to the courthouse—and how personal conflicts contributed to the larger struggle against slavery and legal inequality.
Judith L. Van Buskirk is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Cortland, and the author of Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York.
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Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul Abrahams, Roger D. (with Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson) University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812239591
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To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers Araiza, Lauren University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812224030 240 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 10/8/2017
Author picture: To March for Others examines the complexities of forming coalitions across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic divides in pursuit of justice and equality.
Lauren Araiza is Associate Professor of History at Denison University.
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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom Blain, Keisha N. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812249880 288 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 2/26/2018
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Women in the black nationalist movement 1920s to 1950s. Women missing link between the black nationalist movement and the black power movement.
Keisha N. Blain teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh.
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W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet Blum, Edward J. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812220865 288 pages paperback $22.50 Pub Date: 11/1/2009
Author picture: W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, the first religious biography of this leader, illuminates the spirituality that is essential to understanding his efforts and achievements in the political and intellectual world.
Edward J. Blum teaches history at San Diego State University. His books include the award-winning Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898.
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Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship Bonner, Christopher James University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812252064 272 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2020 America in the Nineteenth Century. 6 x 9. 11 illus.
Author picture: A history of African-American efforts to define citizenship. Through this history we can see how Black people interacted across local communities and how African- American politics influenced debates about sovereignty in the United States.
Christopher James Bonner teaches history at the University of Maryland.
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Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics Bonnette, Lakeyta M. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812224283 228 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/8/2018 American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law. 6 x 9. 2 illus.
Author picture: Lays a foundation for the study of political rap music and public opinion research and demonstrates ways in which political attitudes asserted in the music have been transformed into direct action and behavior of constituents.
Lakeyta M. Bonnette is Associate Professor of American Politics and Political Science at Georgia State University-Atlanta.
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The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade Canizares-Esguerra, Jorge / Childs, Matt D. / Sidbury, James (editors) University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812223767 384 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: Early Modern Americas
Author picture: In The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, eleven original essays by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America chronicle the black experience in Atlantic ports, providing a rich and diverse portrait of the ways in which Africans experienced urban life during the era of plantation slavery.
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin. Matt D. Childs is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. James Sidbury is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University.
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Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence Carter Jackson, Kellie University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812224702 224 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/12/2020 America in the Nineteenth Century. 10 illus.
Author picture: In Force and Freedom, Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, abolitionist leaders created the conditions that necessitated the Civil War.
Kellie Carter Jackson teaches in the Africana Studies Department at Wellesley College. She is coeditor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory.
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Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry Chambers, Jason University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812220605 328 pages paperback $22.50 Pub Date: 1/1/2009
Author picture: Until now, most works on the history of African Americans in advertising have focused on the depiction of blacks in advertisements.
Jason Chambers Associate Professor of Advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel Du Bois, W. E. B. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812218923 440 pages paperback $16.50 Pub Date: Illustrated by H. S. De Lay.
Author picture: Set in Alabama and Washington, D.C., in the early part of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel weaves the themes of racial equality and understanding through the stark reality of prejudice and bias. Originally published in 1911 and conceived immediately after The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois turned to fiction to carry his message to a popular audience who were unfamiliar with his nonfiction works.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
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The Negro Du Bois, W. E. B. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812217759 280 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date: Afterword by Robert Gregg
Author picture: Originally published in 1915, the book was acclaimed in its time, widely read, and deeply influential in both the white and black communities, yet this beautifully written history is virtually unknown today. As a wellspring of critical studies of Africa and African Americans, it directly and indirectly influenced and inspired the works of scholars such as C. L. R. James, Eric Williams, Herbert Aptheker, Eric Foner, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was internationally renowned as a writer, scholar, and activist. Among his published works are THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKS, JOHN BROWN, and BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: AN ESSAY TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE PART WHICH BLACK FOLK PLAYED IN THE ATTEMPT TO RECONSTRUCT Discount: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, 1860—1880. He also wrote other major fiction, 0.40 including DARK PRINCESS. Distro: IPS Group: Wilcher
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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study Du Bois, W. E. B. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812215731 520 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: Introduction by Elijah Anderson.
Author picture: More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro remains a classic work. It is the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship--the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was internationally renowned as a writer, scholar, and activist. Among his published works are THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKS, JOHN BROWN, and BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: AN ESSAY TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE PART WHICH BLACK FOLK PLAYED IN THE ATTEMPT TO RECONSTRUCT DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, 1860—1880.
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From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice Jackson, Thomas F. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812220896 472 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2009
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Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of King's public ministry. Between the 1940s and the 1960s, King was influenced by and in turn reshaped the political cultures of the black freedom movement and democratic left. His vision of unfettered human rights drew on the diverse tenets of the African American social gospel, socialism, left-New Deal liberalism, Gandhian philosophy, and Popular Front internationalism.
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Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Johnson, Jessica Marie University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812252385 360 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 7/31/2020 Early American Studies. 15 illus.
Author picture: A powerful redefinition of freedom as made by African and African-descended women in the Atlantic World.
Jessica Marie Johnson is Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.
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Let Us Fight as Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights Knauer, Christine University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812245974 352 pages hardcover $49.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2014 Politics and Culture in Modern America. 15 illustrations.
Author picture: Drawing on a wide array of sources, from press reports and newspapers to organizational and presidential archives, historian Christine Knauer recounts the conflicts surrounding black military service and the fight for integration. Let Us Fight as Free Men shows that, even after their service to the nation in World War II, it took the persistent efforts of black soldiers, as well as civilian activists and government policy changes, to integrate the military.
Christine Knauer is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Eberhard Karls University Tubingen, Germany.
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Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution Lanctot, Neil University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812220278 512 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 3/10/2008
Author picture: The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration.
Neil Lanctot (born 1966) is an American historian and author.
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Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts Lemire, Elise University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812241808
hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2009
Author picture: Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to 'live deliberately' on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism.
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Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America Mills, Quincy T. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812223798 336 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: Cutting Along the Color Line chronicles the cultural history of black barber shops as businesses and civic institutions. Through several generations of barbers, Mills examines the transition from slavery to freedom in the nineteenth century, the early twentieth-century expansion of black consumerism, and the challenges of professionalization, licensing laws, and competition from white barbers.
Quincy T. Mills teaches history at Vassar College.
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Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812223231 304 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: July 2014
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Reactions of African Americans to the Haitian Revolution.
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
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The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature Pratt, Lloyd University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812224863 200 pages paperback $26.5 Pub Date: 4/2/2021 Haney Foundation Series
Author picture: The Strangers Book explores how a constellation of nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger.
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Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension Price, Sally and Price, Richard University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812239485 192 pages hardcover $49.95 Pub Date: 5/30/2006
Author picture: In this full-color work, lavishly illustrated with 130 Bearden paintings as well as many photos of him and his friends in St. Martin, distinguished scholars Sally Price and Richard Price explore Bearden's Caribbean experience with an insider's eye. Friends of Bearden, such as poet Derek Walcott and writer Albert Murray, contribute their critical assessments of Bearden's legacy, through interviews with the authors. Commentary by others, such as James Baldwin, Alvin Ailey, and Ralph Ellison, help round out the picture. The book focuses on several themes that Bearden treated in his Caribbean work.
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I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land Roberts, Alaina E. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812253030 224 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 4/9/2021 America in the Nineteenth Century
Author picture: Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. The first land ownership of blacks in America was in Oklahoma.
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From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom Roberts, John W. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812213331 240 pages paperback $22.50 Pub Date: 6/1/1990
Author picture: To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America.
Folklorist John Roberts is Associate Dean of the College of Humanities at the Ohio State University and Professor in the Department of English. Formerly Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities, Director of the African American Studies program and Associate Professor of Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, he has published important works on African American folklore and folk narrative. Discount: 0.40 Distro: IPS Group: Wilcher
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Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory Ross, Marc Howard University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812250381 352 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 11/8/2018 6 x 9. 31 illus.
Author picture: An exploration of the history of northern slavery, through the visiting of sites such as the African Burial Ground in New York, Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the ports of Rhode Island, old mansions in Massachusetts, prestigious universities, and rediscovered cemeteries.
Marc Howard Ross is the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. He is author of numerous books and is coeditor of Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes.
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The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America Sharples, Jason T. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812252194 365 pages hardcover $45 Pub Date: 6/5/2020 Early American Studies
Author picture: From the Stono Rebellion in 1739 to the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, slave insurrections have been understood as iconographic rejections of enslavement, the most powerful and, perhaps, the only way for slaves to successfully challenge the brutal system they endured. In The World That Fear Made, Jason T. Sharples orients the mirror to those in power and contends that British colonial officials in North America and the Caribbean cultivated the fear of slave rebellions to maintain their grip on slave society.
Jason T. Sharples teaches history at Florida Atlantic University.
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Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America Wolcott, Victoria W. University of Pennsylvania Press . 9780812223286 320 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: November 2014
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A history of the Civil Rights protests centered around recreational areas and amusement parks. Comprehensive geographically - the whole U. S.
Victoria W. Wolcott is Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and author of Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit.
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Spectrality in the Novels of Toni Morrison Anderson, Melanie R. University of Tennessee Press . 9781572338586
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Melanie R. Anderson is an instructional assistant professor of American literature at the University of Mississippi.
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NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936–1965 Bynum, Thomas University of Tennessee Press . 9781621901532 304 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: The author provides a comprehensive account of the generational struggle for racial equality, capturing the successes, failures, and challenges the NAACP youth groups experienced at the national, state, and local levels. He firmly establishes the vital role they played in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States and in the burgeoning tradition of youth activism in the postwar decades.
Thomas Bynum is an assistant professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University.
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Long Gone: The Mecklenberg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore Dance, Daryl Cumber University of Tennessee Press . 9780870495816 208 pages paperback $23 Pub Date:
Author picture: A discussion of the escape of six condemned prisoners from Mecklenburg prison in 1984, its aftermath in law enforcement circles and its place in Afro-American and American prison folk lore.
Daryl Veronica Cumber Dance (born January 17, 1938) is an American academic best known for her work on black folklore. She was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Allen Cumber and Veronica Bell Cumber. Dance attended Ruthville High School in Ruthville, Virginia, and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Virginia State College in 1957. Dance then taught at Armstrong High School in Richmond until 1962, when she returned to Virginia State College as an instructor.
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The Fiction of Paule Marshall: Reconstructions of History, Culture, and Gender Denniston, Dorothy Hamer University of Tennessee Press . 9780870498398 216 pages paperback $16 Pub Date:
Author picture: The first in-depth study of Paule Marshall's fiction, this book traces the development of the writer's Afrocentric vision. In a fresh and provocative reading, Dorothy Hamer Denniston shows how Marshall's creative sensibility has evolved—from American to African-American, African-Caribbean, and, finally, Pan-African—and how her distinctive literary style combines Western forms with elements from the African oral tradition.
Dorothy Dottie Hamer Denniston joined the Brown Faculty as an Assistant Professor of English in 1987 and became Associate Professor in 1994. She was the first woman of color in the department’s history to rise through the ranks to achieve tenure. Discount: 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance: A Collection of Essays Floyd, Samuel A. Jr. (editor) University of Tennessee Press . 9780870498008 240 pages paperback $21 Pub Date:
Author picture: In the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s jazz music was performed everywhere, black musicals were presented on Broadway, black composers wrote prize-winning works, and the Harlem Symphony Orchestra played to Harlem concert audiences. Often viewed as a period of literary explosion for African-Americans, the Harlem Renaissance saw the emergence of many musical greats—Dinah Washington, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Louis Armstrong. These essays examine the music of this period, as a central aspect of African American life, and the intellectual scrutiny of one of African American music's most famous forms—jazz.
Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. , is director of the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College in Chicago. He is the author of Black Music in the United States Discount: and Black Music Biography. 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Amy Jacques Garvey: Selected Writings from the Negro World, 1923–1928 Garvey, Amy Jacques University of Tennessee Press . 9781621902065 248 pages hardcover $50 Pub Date: June 2016 Edited By Louis J. Parascandola. 6 x 9
Author picture: Amy Jacques Garvey: Selected Writings from the Negro World,1923–1928 seeks to fill this void by making her writings in the Negro World widely available for the first time.
Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (31 December 1895 – 25 July 1973) was the Jamaican-born second wife of Marcus Garvey, and a journalist and activist in her own right. She was one of the pioneering female black journalists and publishers of the 20th century. Louis J. Parascandola is a professor of English at Long Island University.
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The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization, and the African American Reclamation of the West Hairston, Eric Ashley University of Tennessee Press . 9781621902300 280 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date: July 2015
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The Ebony Column passionately demonstrates how the myths, cultures, and ideals of antiquity helped African Americans reconceptualize their role in a Euro-American world determined to make them mere economic commodities and emblems of moral and intellectual decay. To figures such as Wheatley, Douglass, Cooper, and DuBois, classical literature offered striking moral, intellectual, and philosophical alternatives to a viciously exclusionary vision of humanity, Africanity, the life of the citizen, and the life of the mind.
Eric Ashley Hairston is Associate Professor of English and of Law and Humanities at Elon University. He was a contributor to New Essays on Phillis Wheatley, edited by Discount: John C. Shields. 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison Harris, Trudier University of Tennessee Press . 9780870497919 240 pages paperback $18 Pub Date:
Author picture: In this provocative study of Morrison's novels, Trudier Harris blends fictive and folkloric approaches to illuminate the depth and complexity of the African-American literary heritage.
Trudier Harris is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English and Chair of the Curriculum in African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox Jimoh, A. Yemisi University of Tennessee Press . 9781572331723 288 pages hardcover $30 Pub Date: 3/1/2002
Author picture: In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Exploring novels and short stories by Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and others, Jimoh shows how black musical traditions— specifically Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz—are used to shape characterizations and thematic content and to evince ideas, emotions, and experiences.
A. Yemisi Jimoh is an associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her articles have appeared in African American Review, Contemporary African American Novelists, and other publications.
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Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream: An African American Writer’s (Re) Visionary Gospel of Success Knight, Alisha University of Tennessee Press . 9781572339545 152 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:
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In Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream, Alisha Knight argues that Hopkins used the often-dismissed self-made man theme to critique American society's ingrained racism and sexism. In the first full-length critical analysis of her work, Hopkins is finally getting her due.
Alisha Knight is an associate professor of English and American Studies at Washington College. Her published articles include ‘Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard: Revisiting Pauline E. Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Colored American Magazine,’ which appeared in American Periodicals.
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Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century Mance, Ajuan Maria University of Tennessee Press . 9781621902027 632 pages paperback $49.95 Pub Date: January 2016
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Seeking to establish a broader perspective, this collection brings together a wealth of autobiographical writings, fiction, poetry, speeches, sermons, essays, and journalism that better portrays the intellectual and cultural debates, social and political struggles, and community publications and institutions that nurtured black writers from the early 1800s to the eve of the Harlem Renaissance.
AJUAN MARIA MANCE is a professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California. She is the author of Inventing Black Women: African American Poets and Self-Representation, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of African American Studies, Callaloo, and Discount: several edited collections. 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon May, Cedrick University of Tennessee Press . 9781621903291 93 pages printed case $34.95 Pub Date: 9/1/2017
Author picture: Cedrick May’s The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon offers a complete look at the literary achievements of one of the founders of African American literature. Born into slavery on the Lloyd plantation in 1711, Jupiter Hammon became the first African American writer to be published in the present-day United States at the age of forty- nine. It has been decades since a collection of Hammon’s work has appeared, and May’s intensive research has yielded two additional poems, adding new layers to his works and life that, until now, have gone unexplored.
CEDRICK MAY is associate professor of African American literature at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835. His articles have appeared in African American Discount: Review and EAL: Early American Literature. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960 Miller, R. Baxter (editor) University of Tennessee Press . 9780870495908 206 pages paperback $16 Pub Date: Tennessee Studies in Literature, Volume 30
Author picture: The poets examined include Melvin Tolson, Robert Hayden, Dudley Randall, Margaret Esse Danner, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Contributors: Mariann B. Russell, Jon Woodson, Fred Fetrow, R. Baxter Miller, Erlene Stetson, Richard K. Barksdale, Harry B. Shaw.
Dr. Miller, Professor of English, who holds a Ph. D. from Brown University is the author or editor of ten books.
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The Life, Art, and Times of Joseph Delaney, 1904–1991 Moffatt, Frederick C. University of Tennessee Press . 9781572336766
hardcover $44.95 Pub Date: 11/20/2009 On Sale - $17.98
Author picture: This book is the first in-depth treatment of the life and work of the prolific African American painter Joseph Delaney, a gifted artist whose impressive achievements on canvas were somewhat overshadowed during his long career by those of his older brother Beauford. Frederick C. Moffatt deftly interweaves biography, art history, and critical analysis in his study of this neglected African American artist.
Frederick C. Moffatt is emeritus professor of art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Arthur Wesley Dow, 1857–1922, and Errant Bronzes: George Grey Barnard’s Statue of Abraham Lincoln. His articles have appeared in Winterthur Portfolio, New England Quarterly, and Archives of American Art Journal.
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DeFord Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music Morton, David C. (with Charles K. Wolfe) University of Tennessee Press . 9780870497926 224 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: A moving parable of integrity and survival, this book recounts Bailey's childhood at the heart of ‘black hillbilly’ music culture, his painful firing from the Opry in 1941, and his recollections of Nashville during six decades. The resulting narrative calls into question traditional accounts of the origins of southern music.
David C. Morton holds a B.A. in history from Auburn University and completed the coursework required for a Ph.D. in history at Vanderbilt University. He is executive director of the Reno (Nevada) Housing Authority. Charles K. Wolfe is professor of English and folklore at Middle Tennessee State University.
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Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet Murray, Pauli University of Tennessee Press . 9780870495960 464 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:
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Winner of the Christopher Award and the Robert Kennedy Award. Eloquent, dramatic, rich in historical detail, this book heralds the rediscovery of a truly remarkable woman, of a life dedicated to the battle against social injustice. Murray’s memoir constitutes a vital chapter in American History. (Originally published under the title ‘Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage’)
Anna Pauline Pauli Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, a women's rights activist, Episcopal priest, and author.
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Rac(e)ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler Schuyler, George S. University of Tennessee Press . 9781572338180 174 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: Edited by Jeffrey B. Leak
Author picture: A collection of Schuyler’s political and cultural criticism, Rac(e)ing to the Right includes many essays that are not well known as well as pieces that have never before been published. One notable example is the first printed transcript of Schuyler’s 1961 debate on the Black Muslims with Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and C. Eric Lincoln.
George Samuel Schuyler (born February 25, 1895, Providence, RI; died August 31, 1977, in New York, NY), an African American writer known for his conservative views. George Samuel Schuyler was born in Providence, Rhode Island to George (a chef) and Eliza Jane (Fischer) Schuyler. His father died when he was young. He spent his early years in Syracuse where his mother moved their family after she Discount: remarried. 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings of John Edward Bruce Seraile, William University of Tennessee Press . 9781572338975 280 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: In this first intellectual biography of Bruce—a prolific writer and correspondent who published most frequently under the name Bruce Grit—William Seraile explores Bruce’s tireless advocacy on behalf of African peoples everywhere, particularly in the United States.
William Seraile is professor emeritus of Lehman College.
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The New Negroes and Their Music: The Success of the Harlem Renaissance Spencer, Jon Michael University of Tennessee Press . 9780870499678 200 pages paperback $20 Pub Date:
Author picture: Boldly conceived and compellingly argued, this revisionist work offers a new interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance by focusing on its music. Jon Michael Spencer challenges the emphasis of earlier studies—which tended to bypass music in favor of literature—as well as their general conclusion that the Renaissance was a failure because it offered an inadequate solution to the old problem of racism. Spencer's discussion encompasses the music and writings of a wide range of important figures, including William Grant Still, James Weldon Johnson, Roland Hayes, Alain Locke, and R. Nathaniel Dett.
Jon Michael Spencer is Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies and professor of music at the University of Richmond. Discount: 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Re-Searching Black Music Spencer, Jon Michael University of Tennessee Press . 9781621903055 176 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: In this provocative book, Jon Michael Spencer offers a new paradigm for the study of African American music. Proceeding from the proposition that black culture in America cannot be considered apart from its religious and philosophical roots, Spencer argues that "theology and musicology serving together" can form the basis of a holistic, integrative approach to black music and, indeed, to black culture in all its aspects.
JON MICHAEL SPENCER is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Music and Divinity School at Duke University.
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Amazing Baseball Heroes: Inspirational Negro League Steverson, Bryan University of Tennessee Press . 9781932604818 248 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2011
Author picture: Amazing Baseball Heroes profiles twenty American baseball legends—including Jackie Robinson—complete with statistics and facts that show their athletic skills and determination were second to none.
Bryan Steverson is a lifelong baseball fan and a founding member of the East Tennessee Chapter of SABR. He is a Hall of Fame sustaining and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum member. As a researcher and writer, he has taught and given presentations at numerous local and national venues. Bryan is the author of three books on baseball, Amazing Baseball Heroes, Inspirational Negro League Stories (2011), Baseball, A Special Gift from God (2014), and the recently published Baseball’s Brotherhood Team (2018). Discount: 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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The Negro Traditions Talley, Thomas W. University of Tennessee Press . 9780870499258 360 pages paperback $19.50 Pub Date: Introduction by Charles K. Wolfe and Laura C. Jarmon
Author picture: This collection of previously unpublished tales is a major contribution to the annals of African-American folk narrative. Ranging from fables to historical narratives, these tales contain a rich variety of information on folk customs, speech, and songs, providing the reader with a deeper understanding of and appreciation for nineteenth- century African-American culture.
Thomas W. Talley collected these tales during the 1920s from childhood memories of stories told during the post–Civil War era by friends and family in rural Middle Tennessee. A chemistry professor at Fisk University in Nashville, Talley was a twentieth-century pioneer in African-American folklore who used his keen insight and imagination to confront the complex and little-known wellsprings of his own cultural Discount: background. 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam Tate, Sonsyrea University of Tennessee Press . 9781572333642 256 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 1/15/2005
Author picture: In Little X, Sonsyrea Tate reveals, through the acute vision and engaging voice of a curious child, the practices and policies of the mysterious organization most know only through media portrayals of its controversial leaders Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. First published in 1997, Little X chronicles the multigenerational experience of Tate’s family, who broke from the traditional black church in the 1950s to join the radical Nation of Islam, then struggled to remain intact through disillusionment, shifting loyalties, and forays into Orthodox Islam.
Sonsyrea Tate has been a staff writer for the Virginian Pilot, Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. The recipient of four coveted Echoes of Excellence awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, Tate has also worked as Discount: assistant to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticism Toomer, Jean University of Tennessee Press . 9781572335820 160 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date:
Author picture: A major contribution to the current reappraisal of Jean Toomer's place within American literary and intellectual culture, this book brings together more than twenty pieces written by Toomer between 1921 and 1945. Most are published here for the first time.
Robert B. Jones, who died in 1994, was an associate professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His previous books include Critical Essays on Jean Toomer, The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer, and Jean Toomer and the Prison-House Thought.
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The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919–1924 Toomer, Jean University of Tennessee Press . 9781572334700 296 pages hardcover $38 Pub Date: 5/15/2006 Edited by Mark Whalan.
Author picture: The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 is the first-ever annotated collection of the author's correspondence. The letters included in the volume-most of which are in the Beinecke Library at Yale University-were written in the five years surrounding Toomer's publication of his seminal work, Cane. As such, they lend unique insight into the life, aesthetics, politics, and work of a central figure in American literature of the early twentieth century.
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.
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Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman TuSmith, Bonnie and Byerman, Keith E. (editors) University of Tennessee Press . 9781572334694 312 pages hardcover $32 Pub Date: 3/15/2006
Author picture: This volume is an indispensable study of Wideman's oeuvre, covering the full range of his career by addressing the key features of his fiction and nonfiction from 1967 to the present. The essays in this book reflect the most advanced thinking on Wideman's prolific, extraordinary art. The collection features at least one article on each major work and includes the voices of both well-established and emerging scholars.
Bonnie TuSmith is the author or editor of several books, including Conversations with John Edgar Wideman. Past president of MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, she is an associate professor of English at Northeastern University. Keith E. Byerman serves on the editorial board Discount: of African American Review and is president of the John Edgar Wideman Society. 0.42 Distro: CDC Group: BRG
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Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals Walker, Clarence E. University of Tennessee Press . 9780870497223 184 pages paperback $15 Pub Date:
Author picture: Thirty years ago, a new generation of historians brought a fresh perspective to the study of black people in America. These scholars gave voice to a people who were thought to be silent, without historical agency, and therefore merely ciphers in the history of the United States. This work was a necessary corrective to an earlier mode of analysis that had cast black people as passive victims of a past characterized by social pathology. However, the revolutionary ideas of the 1960s and 1970s have become today's dogma.
Clarence E. Walker is professor of history at the University of California, Davis.
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O Freedom!: Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations Wiggins, William H. Jr. University of Tennessee Press . 9780870496653 232 pages paperback $17 Pub Date:
Author picture: This lively account traces the evolution of emancipation celebrations from early slave festivals to twentieth-century offshoots like Black History Month and Martin Luther King Day.
William H. Wiggins Jr. , was professor emeritus of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.
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George S. Schuyler: Portrait of a Black Conservative Williams, Oscar R. University of Tennessee Press . 9781572335813 224 pages hardcover $33 Pub Date:
Author picture: This is the first full biography of Schuyler and traces his transformation from a socialist to a conservative by examining his childhood, his career as a journalist and writer, his opinions about race and class, and his desire for professional notoriety. The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses Schuyler's early life prior to his arrival in Harlem and his becoming a writer for the Messenger, an African American socialist magazine edited by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen. Part II chronicles his career as a journalist, novelist, satirist, and critic from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s through World War II. Part III reviews his post-World War II career from the late 1940s until his death in 1977.
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Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century Anthony, Arthé A. University Press of Florida . 9780813041872 128 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 9/2/2012
Author picture: 15 color photos, 54 b&w photos. 7 x 10
Reveals how this remarkable woman marked her place in a ‘man’s world.’ Picturing Black New Orleans will have an impact on the history of photography and the city of New Orleans, particularly the Tremé neighborhood.
Arthé A. Anthony is professor of American studies at Occidental College.
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Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin Baldwin/Al-Hadid University Press of Florida . 9780813024578 488 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2002
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Lewis V. Baldwin is professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University. Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid is professor and chair of Africana studies at Tennessee State University.
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Zora Neale Hurston Companion Croft, Robert W. University Press of Florida . 9780813027937 272 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 7/22/2004 Appendix, bibliography, index. 6 x 9
Author picture: This book outlines the major events and significant accomplishments of Zora Neale Hurston’s life, and a short biography offers a narrative assessment of her career. The core of the book presents an alphabetical arrangement of Hurston's works, characters, themes, family members, and acquaintances. Entries for the most important topics include suggestions for further reading, and the volume also includes an extensive primary bibliography listing publication information about Hurston's novels, plays, short , nonfiction articles, book reviews, newspaper articles, and poems. A secondary bibliography presents an exhaustive list of Hurston criticism, research, and reviews of her works.
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Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia Deidre Helen Crumbley University Press of Florida . 9780813049007 224 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: May 2013
Author picture: A volume in the series the History of African American Religions. 6 x 9 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8130-3984-8, 2012)
Deidre Helen Crumbley is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Africana Studies Program at North Carolina State University.
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Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 Dossett, Kate University Press of Florida . 9780813034959 280 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2009
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Breaks new ground in African American and women's history by challenging assumptions about African American women's relationship to black nationalist movements in the United States
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Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard Ellis, Reginald K. University Press of Florida . 9780813064918 160 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 10/23/2018
Author picture: Follows the life and work of James Edward Shepard, the founder and president of the first state-supported black liberal arts college in the South.
Reginald K. Ellis lives in Tallahassee, FL and is associate professor of history at Florida A&M University.
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From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology Erskine, Noel Leo University Press of Florida . 9780813030784 256 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 4/22/2007 Foreword by Stephen W. Angell and Anthony Pinn, Series Editors. History of
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This history of the theology and rituals of Rastafarianism features accents of the reggae rhythms of Bob Marley and the teachings and philosophy of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist who motivated many of his fellow Jamaicans to embrace their African ancestral roots.
Noel Leo Erskine is associate professor of theology and ethics at the Candler School of Theology.
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Resistance Reimagined: Black Women's Critical Thought as Survival Fox, Regis M. University Press of Florida . 9780813064895 210 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/23/2018
Author picture: An examination of nineteenth-century texts and twentieth-century novels written by African American women about antebellum America Analyzes texts by better- and lesser-known authors (Harriet Wilson, Elizabeth Keckley, Anna Julia Cooper, etc) Highlights and connects their contributions to a long and continuing tradition of black resistance
Regis M. Fox lives in Elmira, NY and is assistant professor of English at Grand Valley State University.
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Zora in Florida Glassman, Steve and Seidel, Kathryn Lee (editors) University Press of Florida . 9780813010618 197 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 4/20/1991 Photographs, notes, bibliography, Index. 6 x 9
Author picture: Following years of neglect, Zora Neale Hurston's status in American letters is restored: she is now recognized as one of the foremost African-American writers of the twentieth century--an artist of the Harlem Renaissance and a native Florida writer.
Steve Glassman is associate professor in the Department of the Humanities at Embry-Riddle University, Daytona Beach, Florida. Kathryn Lee Seidel (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Central Florida.
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Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance Holcomb, Gary E. University Press of Florida . 9780813034508 288 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 9/25/2009
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‘An original book on a neglected figure of the Harlem Renaissance . . . Holcomb is the first scholar to offer a coherent account of the different aspects of McKay's career and life without treating them as contradictions.’--John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California.
Gary Edward Holcomb is associate professor of African American literature in the Americas at Ohio University.
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These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship Jimoh, A Yemisi and Hamlin, Françoise N. University Press of Florida . 9780813064109 584 pages paperback $40 Pub Date: 10/2/2018
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Documents the variety of African American perspectives on war and citizenship from the colonial period to the present-day. Includes essays, fiction, poetry, letters, speeches, oral histories, and articles. Topics include war, citizenship, national loyalty, and freedom as well as the roles of soldiers, veterans, and citizens within African American communities.
A. Y. Jimoh is professor of African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Françoise N. Hamlin is associate professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University.
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Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Lillios, Anna University Press of Florida . 9780813038094 216 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/9/2011
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Illuminates the complex artistic and personal connections between Hurston (1891– 1960) and Rawlings (1896–1953).
Anna Lillios, associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida, is the editor of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. She is the director of the Zora Neale Hurston Electronic Archive as well as executive director and trustee of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society.
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Black Panther in Exile: The Pete O'Neal Story Magnarella, Paul J. University Press of Florida . 9780813066394 256 pages hardcover $35 Pub Date: 4/28/2020 6 x 9. 18 b/w photos, notes, bibliography, index.
Author picture: Describes the life of Felix "Pete" O'Neal, growing up in a poor, black section of Kansas City, MO to eventually forming and heading the Kansas City Branch of the Black Panther Party.
Paul J. Magnarella is Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Warren Wilson College, Asheville, N.C., USA.
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Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill: Legendary African American Desperado Massey, Larry L. University Press of Florida . 9780813061207 160 pages hardcover $21.95 Pub Date: 9/27/2015 6 x 9
Author picture: For more than two years, Railroad Bill eluded sheriffs, private detectives hired by the L&N line, and bounty hunters who traveled across the country to match guns with the legendary desperado. The African American outlaw was wanted on multiple charges of robbery and murder, and rumor had it that he stole from the rich to give to the poor. He terrorized busy train lines from east of Mobile to the Florida Panhandle, but as soon as the lawmen got close, he disappeared into the bayous and pine forests—until one day his luck ran out, and he was gunned down inside a general store in Atmore, Alabama.
LARRY L. MASSEY is an independent writer and researcher living in Mobile, Alabama, and DeLand, Florida. His great-great-grandfather once worked at Bluff Discount: Springs turpentine mill with Railroad Bill. 0.43 Distro: UPF Group: BRG
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Maximum Insight: Selected Columns Maxwell, Bill University Press of Florida . 9780813069012 336 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 03/02/2021 15 b&w photos. 6 x 9.
Author picture: With syndication in more than 200 newspapers and a faithful readership nationwide, Bill Maxwell's status as one of the country's preeminent black journalists is unquestionable. This collection of his columns, primarily from the St. Petersburg Times, forms a body of commentary on humanity (and lack of same) that will capture the hearts and minds of Americans.
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Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture Miller, W. Jason University Press of Florida . 9780813041520 184 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 2/15/2012 13 b&w photos. 6 x 9
Author picture: Langston Hughes never knew of an America where lynching was absent from the cultural landscape. Jason Miller investigates the nearly three dozen poems written by Hughes on the subject of lynching to explore its varying effects on survivors, victims, and accomplices as they resisted, accepted, and executed this brutal form of sadistic torture.
W. Jason Miller is associate professor of English at North Carolina State University.
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Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric Miller, W. Jason University Press of Florida . 9780813062006 260 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2016 6 x 9. 4 photos, 7 charts
Author picture: The author uncovered a previously unknown earlier version of King’s “I Have A Dream’ speech.
W. JASON MILLER is associate professor of English at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture.
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Postcards from the Highwaymen Monroe, Gary University Press of Florida . 9780813044095 28 pages Postcards $9.95 Pub Date: October 2012 6 x 4. 13 color postcards
Author picture: The days are long past when tourists could buy an original landscape painting on the side of the road for as little as fifty dollars—sometimes before the paint dried. This new book of postcards allows you to experience the thrill of owning (miniature) versions of these exquisite paintings.
Gary Monroe is professor of fine arts and photography at Daytona State College and author of numerous books, including Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman and The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black’s Concrete Dreams.
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Alfred Hair: Heart of the Highwaymen Monroe, Gary University Press of Florida . 9780813066707 208 pages hardcover $40 Pub Date: 10/13/2020 74 color illus, 2 b/w illus
Author picture: A long-awaited testament to the life and work of Alfred Hair, the driving force of the Florida Highwaymen, this book introduces a charismatic personality whose energy and creativity were foundational to the success of his fellow African American artists during the era of Jim Crow segregation.
Gary Monroe lives in Ormond Beach, FL. He is a retired professor of fine arts and photography at Daytona State College, and the author of numerous books, including The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters, Mary Ann Carroll: First Lady of the Highwaymen, The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams, and Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman.
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Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman Monroe, Gary University Press of Florida . 9780813064116 160 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 2/26/2019 65 color plates, 2 b&w photos.
Author picture: From the best-selling author of The Highwaymen comes the story of the group's most prolific and most sought after painter. 65 color plates of Harold Newton's most vivid paintings. Combines samples of Newton's paintings with biographical details and reminiscences of family members, customers, and fellow Highwaymen.
Gary Monroe lives in Deland, FL and is author of The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters and Extraordinary Interpretations: Florida's Self-Taught Artists. As a lecturer for the Florida Humanities Council's Speakers Bureau, Monroe has brought the Highwaymen story and self-taught Floridian art to the citizenry of Florida. Widely exhibited throughout the state, his photographs have been published in Life in South Beach and Florida Dreams. Discount: 0.43 Distro: UPF Group: BRG
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Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams Monroe, Gary University Press of Florida . 9780813033594 160 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 4/26/2009 3 b&w photos, 95 color illustrations. 10 x 8
Author picture: By now, the story of Florida's Highwaymen--self-trained African American painters whose visions of the state were sold to travelers out of the trunks of their cars--is fairly well known. Emerging in the late 1950s and led by painters such as Alfred Hair and Harold Newton, the Highwaymen produced an astonishing number of landscapes that depict a faraway place of windswept palms, billowing clouds, placid wetlands, and lush sunsets.
Gary Monroe is professor of fine arts and photography at Daytona State College.
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Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters Monroe, Gary University Press of Florida . 9780813022819 160 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 11/20/2001 63 color photos, notes. 10 x 8
Author picture: The Highwaymen introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair awaiting them in citrus groves and packing houses of 1950s Florida. As their story recaptures the imagination of Floridians and their paintings fetch ever-escalating prices, the legacy of their freshly conceived landscapes exerts a new and powerful influence on the popular conception of the Sunshine State. While the value of Highwaymen paintings has soared in recent years, until now no authoritative account of the lives and work of these black Florida artists has existed.
Gary Monroe, professor of visual art at Daytona Beach Community College, is a documentary photographer with a long-time interest in 'outsider' and vernacular art.
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Mary Ann Carroll: First Lady of the Highwaymen Monroe, Gary University Press of Florida . 9780813049694 192 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 9/16/2014 8 x 10
Author picture: Mary Ann Carroll is the never-before-told story of a black female artist’s hard- fought journey to feed her family and make a name for herself in a man’s world.
GARY MONROE, professor of fine arts and photography at Daytona State College, is the author of numerous books, including The Highwaymen: Florida’s African- American Landscape Painters, The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black’s Concrete Dreams, and Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman Harold Newton The Highwaymen The Original Highwayman.
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Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom Morgan, Lynda J. University Press of Florida . 9780813064697 208 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 6/26/2018 6 x 9
Author picture: Looks beyond slavery's legacy of racial and economic inequality and counters the idea that slaves were unprepared for freedom. By examining African American social and intellectual thought, Morgan highlights how slaves built an ethos of 'honest labor’ and collective humanism.
LYNDA J. MORGAN, professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, is the author of Emancipation in Virginia’s Tobacco Belt, 1850–1870.
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Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade Moylan, Virginia L. University Press of Florida . 9780813044323 208 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 9/15/2012 21 b&w illustrations. 6 x 9
Author picture: Since her death, scholars and the public have rediscovered Hurston’s work and conscientiously researched her biography. Nevertheless, the last decade of her life has remained relatively unexplored. Virginia Moylan fills in the details--investigating subjects as varied as Hurston’s reporting on the trial of Ruby McCollum (a black woman convicted of murdering her white lover), her participation in designing an "anthropologically correct" black baby doll to combat stereotypes, her impassioned and radical biography of King Herod, and her controversial objections to court- ordered desegregation.
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Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy: From American Slave to Arctic Hero Noble, Dennis L. and Strobridge, Truman R. University Press of Florida . 9780813054858 352 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2017 New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology
Author picture: One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden. In the late 1880s, many lives in northern and western maritime Alaska rested in the capable hands of Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), through his service to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. Healy arrested lawbreakers, put down mutinies aboard merchant ships, fought the smuggling of illegal liquor and firearms, rescued shipwrecked sailors from a harsh and unforgiving environment, brought medical aid to isolated villages, prevented the wholesale slaughter of marine wildlife, and explored unknown waters and lands. Sixty-seven years later, in 1971, the U.S. Coast Guard learned that Healy was born a slave in Georgia who ran away to sea at age fifteen and spent the rest of his life passing for white.
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Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Osumare, Halifu University Press of Florida . 9780813064321 352 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 03/14/2019 20 b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. 6.125 x 9.25
Author picture: Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and twenty-three countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career.
Halifu Osumare lives in Sacramento, CA. She is professor emerita of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, is the author of The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop and The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves.
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Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Osumare, Halifu University Press of Florida . 9780813056616 352 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 3/6/2018 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 20 b/w illus.
Author picture: Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. Author teaches at UC Davis.
HALIFU OSUMARE, professor emerita of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, is the author of The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop.
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Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South Pargas, Damian A. University Press of Florida . 9780813038049 274 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 10/10/2011 9 tables, notes, bibliography, index. 6.125 x 9.25. New Perspectives on the History
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Reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves’ family life
Damian Alan Pargas is professor of North American history and culture at Leiden University. He is the author of The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South and Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South.
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Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America Pargas, Damian Alan University Press of Florida . 9780813068367 334 pages paperback $30 Pub Date: 9/22/2020 Southern Dissent. 2 b/w illustrations, 10 tables, notes, index.
Author picture: This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different "spaces of freedom" that fugitive slaves inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. South, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Damian Alan Pargas lives in the Netherlands and is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of History and Culture of the United States and the Americas at Leiden University.
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Blacks and the American Political System Perry, Huey L. and Parent, Wayne (editors) University Press of Florida . 9780813013732 312 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 1995 6 x 9, illus.
Author picture: These essays offer a current and comprehensive analysis of black politics and its impact at the national level on the American political system. Whether analyzing the Supreme Court, interest groups, public policy, the Congressional Black Caucus, or political attitudes and behavior, these essays demonstrate that African Americans participate in national politics in a substantial way, and that they have done so in a manner consistent with pluralist theory.
Huey L. Perry is dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and professor of political science at Southern University, Baton Rouge. Wayne Parent is associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University.
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African American Religious Experience in America Pinn, Anthony B. University Press of Florida . 9780813031972 384 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 11/18/2007 History of African-American Religions Series, 6.125 x 9.25, illus.
Author picture: Too often, consideration of African American religious expression is limited to considerations of black churches or to aspects of Islamic thought and practice. This comprehensive reveals the tremendous diversity of the African American religious communities in America by examining black spiritual churches, Buddhism, humanism, Judaism, Nation of Islam, Protestant churches, the Roman Catholic Church, Santería, Sunni Islam, and voodoo.
Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religious studies at Rice University, and the editor of Moral Evil and Redemptive Suffering.
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The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People Porter, Kenneth W. University Press of Florida . 9780813044880 352 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 5/21/2013 A Florida Quincentennial Book. 38 b&w photographs. 6 x 9. Revised and edited by
Author picture: Alcione M. Amos and Thomas P. Senter. With a new foreword by Rosalyn Howard.
“An epic tale of desperate, unwitting fugitives who would--without exaggeration-- defeat armed forces both white and Indian, make possible settlement of the West, earn the country’s highest military honors, and have nothing to show for it." --Miami Herald.
Kenneth W. Porter, former professor of history at the University of Oregon.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade Postma, Johannes University Press of Florida . 9780813029061 208 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 9/21/2005 10 b&w photos, 3 maps, 3 tables, glossary, bibliography, index. 6 x 9
Author picture: In 1502, the first African slaves were taken to Hispaniola. In 1888, Brazil became the last nation in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery. For the nearly 400 years in between, slavery played a major role in linking the histories of Africa, North and South America, and Europe.
Johannes Postma is emeritus professor of history at Minnesota State University, author of The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815, and co-editor of Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817.
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Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock Tucker, Terrence T. University Press of Florida . 9780813068268 302 pages paperback $28 Pub Date: 3/10/2020 6 x 9. notes, works cited, index.
Author picture: A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America's racial divide.
Terrence T. Tucker is associate professor of English at the University of Memphis.
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Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta University Press of Florida . 9780813037233 208 pages hardcover $22 Pub Date: 2/5/2012
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A myth-shattering account of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X that, without diminishing their differences, illuminates surprising similarities
Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson is associate professor of American history and culture at the University of Munich in Germany.
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Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle Ward, Brian E. (editor) University Press of Florida . 9780813027449 320 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2001 Notes, index. 6 x 9
Author picture: Stimulating and insightful, these essays on the relationship among the media, popular culture, and the postwar African American freedom struggle offer new perspectives on the nature of the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies.
Brian Ward, associate professor of American history at the University of Florida, is the author of Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations and coeditor of The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Water and African American Memory: An Ecocritical Perspective Wardi, Anissa Janine University Press of Florida . 9780813062501 190 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 1/15/2016 6 x 9
Author picture: ‘Shows that in addition to the Atlantic Ocean of the Middle Passage, sites of African American memory include all forms of water— rivers, swamps, lakes, fog, and hurricanes. . . . A worthy ecocritical perspective.’—Choice.
ANISSA JANINE WARDI, author of Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature, is professor of English and African American literature at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture West, M. Genevieve University Press of Florida . 9780813028309 320 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 6/30/2005 11 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 6 x 9
Author picture: Genevieve West examines the cultural history of Zora Neale Hurston’s writing and the reception of her work, in an attempt to explain why Hurston died in obscure poverty only to be reclaimed as an important Harlem Renaissance writer decades after her death. Unlike other books on Hurston, this study focuses on how Hurston was marketed and reviewed during her career and how literary scholars reappraised her after her death.
M. Genevieve West is associate professor of English at Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan.
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African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison Zauditu-Selassie, K. University Press of Florida . 9780813049526 256 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: February 2014 6 x 9 (Cloth ISBN 978-0-8130-3328-0, 2009)
Author picture: Toni Morrison herself has long urged for organic critical readings of her works. K. Zauditu-Selassie delves deeply into African spiritual traditions, clearly explaining the meanings of African cosmology and epistemology as manifest in Morrison's novels. The result is a comprehensive, tour-de-force critical investigation of such works as The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Paradise, Love, Beloved , and Jazz .
K. Zauditu-Selassie is professor of English at Coppin State University, Baltimore.
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The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir's Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era Beermann, Jack M. University Press of Kansas . 9780700631834 256 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 4/16/2021
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In The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era, Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v. Decuir, the post-Civil War US Supreme Court took its first step toward perpetuating the subjugation of the non-White population of the United States by actively preventing a Southern state from prohibiting segregation on a riverboat in the coasting trade on the Mississippi River.
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Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 Broussard, Albert S. University Press of Kansas . 9780700606849 336 pages paperback $27.50 Pub Date: 10/1/1994
Author picture: In Black San Francisco, Albert Broussard explores race relations in a city where whites, for the most part, were outwardly civil to blacks while denying them employment opportunities and political power. Understanding the texture of the racial caste system, he argues, is critical to understanding why blacks made so little progress in employment, housing, and politics despite the absence of segregation laws.
Albert S. Broussard is associate professor of history at Texas A & M University and author of Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900 -1954.
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Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity Goeser, Caroline University Press of Kansas . 9780700614660 378 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 1/22/2007
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During the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their history.
Caroline Goeser is assistant professor of art history in the School of Art at the University of Houston. Caroline Goeser is Associate Director for Interpretation at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She was formerly an associate professor of art history at the University of Houston.
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican Golland, David Hamilton University Press of Kansas . 9780700627646 400 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2019
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Arthur Fletcher (1924-2005) was the most important civil rights leader you've (probably) never heard of. The first black player for the Baltimore Colts, the father of affirmative action and adviser to four presidents, he coined the United Negro College Fund's motto: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
David Hamilton Golland is associate professor of history and coordinator of humanities at Governors State University. He is the author of Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity.
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Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist Ottley, Roi University Press of Kansas . 9780700618910 208 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 9/12/2012 Edited and with an introduction by Mark A. Huddle.
Author picture: When black journalist Vincent 'Roi' Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents.
Vincent Lushington "Roi" Ottley (August 2, 1906 - October 2, 1960) was an American journalist and writer. Although largely forgotten today, he was among the most famous African American correspondents in the United States during the mid -20th century.
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The Concept of Self: A Study of Black Identity and Self-Esteem Allen, Richard L. Wayne State University Press . 9780814328989 224 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 04/01/01 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: The Concept of Self examines the historical basis for the widely misunderstood ideas of how African Americans think of themselves individually, and how they relate to being part of a group that has been subjected to challenges of their very humanity.
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Blues Legacy Armstrong, Jacquese Wayne State University Press . Broadside Lotus Press 9780940713277 76 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: 2/4/2019
Author picture: Blues Legacy is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems in which the blues and other forms of African American music serve as metaphors representing the spirit of determination and perseverance that characterizes African American culture.
Jacquese Armstrong is a poet/writer residing in Central New Jersey. Her first poetry chapbook, dance of the shadows, was released June 2017. She has been published in For Harriet, A Gathering of the Tribes, The Rising Phoenix Review, Black Magnolias Literary Journal and Ourselves/Black. Ms.
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Bearing Witness to African American Literature: Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency Bell, Bernard W. Wayne State University Press . 9780814337141 352 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 05/15/12
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An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.
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Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader Boggs, James and Ward, Stephen M. Wayne State University Press . 9780814332566 416 pages paperback $28.99 Pub Date: 03/31/11 African American Life Series. Edited by Stephen M. Ward. 7 x 10.
Author picture: Collects nearly four decades’ worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.
James Boggs (May 27, 1919–July 22, 1993) was an American political activist, auto worker and author. He was married to feminist activist Grace Lee Boggs for forty years until his death.
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The Golden Underground Butts, Anthony Wayne State University Press . 9780814333891 56 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 02/24/09 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: New from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.
Anthony Butts is author of Fifth Season, Evolution, and Little Low Heaven, which was awarded the 2004 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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"Gettin' Our Groove On": Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation Campbell, Kermit E. Wayne State University Press . 9780814329252 216 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 09/01/05
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A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop.
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Know the Mother Cooper, Desiree Wayne State University Press . 9780814341490 112 pages paperback $15.99 Pub Date: 03/14/16 Made in Michigan Writers Series. 5.5 x 8.5. .
Author picture: Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives.
A 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, Desiree Cooper is a former attorney, Pulitzer Prize– nominated journalist, and Detroit community activist. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Callaloo, Detroit Noir, Best African American Fiction 2010, and Tidal Basin Review, among other online and print publications.
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If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls Ellis, Aimé J. Wayne State University Press . 9780814334133 224 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 06/15/11 African American Life Series. 6 x 9. 3 illustrations
Author picture: Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.
Aimé J. Ellis was an associate professor of English and core faculty in African and African American studies at Michigan State University until his death in 2009, following a yearlong battle with cancer.
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The Colored Car Elster, Jean Alicia Wayne State University Press . 9780814336069 224 pages paperback $14.99 Pub Date: 09/13/13 Great Lakes Books Series. 5 x 7.5.
Author picture: For young readers, the powerful story of an African American girl's train journey south from Detroit in 1937.
Formerly an attorney, Jean Alicia Elster is the author of the novel The Colored Car— for ages 8 and older. which was selected as a 2014 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan. Elster was awarded the 2014 Midwest Book Award in Children’s Fiction for The Colored Car by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, and The Colored Car was chosen as an Honor Book for the 2014 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.
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Ascension Favorite, Malaika Wayne State University Press . Broadside Lotus Press 9780940713239 128 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: 02/01/16 5.5 x 8.5
Author picture: A collection of brilliantly crafted poems with intense imagery and cadence, representing the African American experience of enslavement and the author’s rootedness in the folkways and history of African Americans in Louisiana.
Malaika Favorite is a writer and visual artist who lives in Augusta, GA. She is the author of Illuminated Manuscript and Dreaming at the Manor. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Pen International, Hurricane Blues, Drumvoices Review, Xavier Review, The Maple Leaf Rag, Visions International, Louisiana Literature, Louisiana English Journal, and Southern Quarterly. She is the winner of the 2005 Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry.
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Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens Gilyard, Keith Wayne State University Press . 9780814330579 192 pages hardcover $32.95 Pub Date: 04/01/03 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art—one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation.
Raymond Keith Gilyard (born 1952 in New York City) is a prominent writer and American professor of English who teaches and researches in the fields of rhetoric, composition, literacy studies, sociolinguistics, and African American literature.
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Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence Gilyard, Keith Wayne State University Press . 9780814322253 184 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date: 07/01/91 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: An exploration of the key issues of language education for African Americans.
Raymond Keith Gilyard (born 1952 in New York City) is a prominent writer and American professor of English who teaches and researches in the fields of rhetoric, composition, literacy studies, sociolinguistics, and African American literature. Interested in the complex interplay among race, ethnicity, language, writing, and politics, Gilyard's work investigates the differences between authentic student voice and the dominant discourse of the academy. His primary interest lies in identifying intersections of African American English and composition practices. Advocating African American English as a legitimate discourse, Gilyard is a prominent voice in the movement to recognize ethnic and cultural discourses other than Standard Discount: English as valid. 0.40 Distro: Wayne State Group: BRG
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door Greenlee, Sam Wayne State University Press . 9780814322468 256 pages paperback $21.99 Pub Date: 05/01/89 African American Life Series. 5.5 x 8.5.
Author picture: An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.
Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African- American writer, best known for his controversial novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers). The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co- produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a 'cult classic'.
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Solitude of Five Black Moons Harris, Aurora Wayne State University Press . Broadside Lotus Press 9780940713215 80 pages paperback $18 Pub Date: 01/01/11 6 x 9.
Author picture: Collection of poems by Aurora Harris giving voices to those who are marginalized or oppressed.
Aurora Harris was born in Detroit of African American and Filipina parentage. She grew up in a Catholic and Muslim family where English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Ilocana were spoken.
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Birth of a Notion; Or, the Half Ain't Never Been Told: A Narrative Account with Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy and of America & the True Relation Thereof Harris, Bill Wayne State University Press . 9780814334089 232 pages paperback $18.95
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A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.
Bill Harris is professor of English at Wayne State University and author of numerous plays, including Robert Johnson Trick the Devil, Stories About the Old Days, Riffs, and Coda. He is also author of two books of poetry, The Ringmaster's Array and Yardbird Suite: Side One, which won the 1997 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
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Booker T & Them: A Blues Harris, Bill Wayne State University Press . 9780814337165 264 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 02/15/12 Made in Michigan Writers Series. 5.5 x 8.5.
Author picture: A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Bill Harris is professor of English at Wayne State University and author of numerous plays, including Robert Johnson Trick the Devil, Stories About the Old Days, Riffs, and Coda. He is also author of two books of poetry, The Ringmaster's Array and Yardbird Suite: Side One, which won the 1997 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
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I Got To Keep Moving Harris, Bill Wayne State University Press . 9780814345931 256 pages paperback $18.99 Pub Date: 11/12/2018 Made in Michigan Writers Series. 0. 5.5x8.5
Author picture: African American characters navigate a physical and spiritual journey beginning in the antebellum South.
Bill Harris is a Wayne State University emeritus professor of English. He is a playwright, poet, and arts critic. His plays have been produced nationwide and he has published books of plays, poetry, and reappraisals of American history. He received the 2011 Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist award.
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The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 Hatch, James V. and Hamalian, Leo (editor) Wayne State University Press . 9780814321423 456 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 04/01/92 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
Leo Hamalian, a Ph. D. from Columbia University, is a professor of English at The City College of New York. He has written or edited more than one dozen volumes, including As Others See Us and In Search of Eden, and is currently editor of Ararat.
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Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 Hatch, James V. and Hamalian, Leo (editors) Wayne State University Press . 9780814325803 468 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 10/01/96 African American Life Series. 6 x 9. 4 illustrations
Author picture: A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context.
Leo Hamalian, a Ph. D. from Columbia University, is a professor of English at The City College of New York. He has written or edited more than one dozen volumes, including As Others See Us and In Search of Eden, and is currently editor of Ararat.
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From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935 Hennessey, Thomas J. Wayne State University Press . 9780814321799 224 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 09/01/94 Jazz: History, Culture, and Criticism Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: In the 1920s, many black regional jazz bands were recorded and became products of the entertainment industry, which was altering the face of America from the handmade, homemade, homemade society of the ninteenth century to the mass- produced, mass-consumed technological culture of the twentieth century.
Thomas Hennessey is an associate professor at Fayetteville State University in Fayettevilee, North Carolina. He has published several articles on the history of jazz and has been the host-producer of a weekly jazz radio program for more than a decade.
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Making Callaloo in Detroit Hernandez, Lolita Wayne State University Press . 9780814339695 184 pages paperback $18.99 Pub Date: 05/01/14 Made in Michigan Writers Series. 5.5 x 8.5.
Author picture: Stories of hope and quirky survival in the city of Detroit colored by Caribbean culture and memory.
Born and raised in Detroit, Lolita Hernandez is the author of Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant, winner of a 2005 PEN Beyond Margins Award. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Quiet Battles and snakecrossing. She is a 2012 Kresge Literary Arts fellow, and her poetry and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of literary publications. After over thirty-three years as a UAW worker at General Motors, she now teaches in the creative writing department in the University of Michigan Residential College.
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A History of the African American People, the History, Traditions, and Culture of African Americans Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois E. (editors) Wayne State University Press . 9780814326978 208 pages paperback $28.95 Pub Date: 02/01/97
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An illustrated collection of essays on the history of African Americans.
James Oliver Horton was professor of History and American Civilization at the George Washington University and director of the African American Communities Project, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Lois E. Horton is professor emerita of history at George Mason University.
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Home Sweet Sanctuary: Idelwild Familes Celebrate a Century House, Gloria Wayne State University Press . Broadside Lotus Press 9780940713222 132 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 01/01/11 10 x 8. 76 illustrations.
Author picture: A cultural study of the remarkable community of Idlewild, an African American resort in northern Michigan.
Gloria House is professor of Humanities and African American studies at University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is a poet and cultural activist who has been engaged in U. S. and international human rights issues since her work in the Southern civil rights movement as a student in the 1960s.
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The Official Report on Human Activity hunter, kim d. Wayne State University Press . 9780814345207 216 pages paperback $18.99 Pub Date: 4/16/2018 Made in Michigan Writers Series
Author picture: Dystopic fairy tales told through the lens of media and capitalism run amok.
kim d. hunter has published two collections of poetry: borne on slow knives and edge of the time zone. His poetry appears in Rainbow Darkness, What I Say, Black Renaissance Noire, 6X6 #35, and elsewhere. He received a 2012 Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Literary Arts and he works in Detroit providing media support to social justice groups.
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Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson Jackson, Murray Wayne State University Press . 9780814331941 104 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date: 12/01/03 African American Life Series. Edited by Kathryne Lindberg-Jackson, Ted Pearson. 6
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From a poet whose vision and vistas embrace Detroit's glass-strewn streets and soaring high-rises, this collection is universal yet site-specific in its evocation of jazz and its improvisations on the classics.
Murray Jackson (1926–2002), a resident of Detroit for over seventy years, was the founding president of Wayne County Community College and was a twenty-year member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors. Ted Pearson is adjunct faculty with the Department of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of many poetry books, most recently including Songs Aside: 1992–2002 (Past Tents Press, 2003) and The Devil’s Aria (Meow Press, 1999). Discount: 0.40 Distro: Wayne State Group: BRG
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Just for a Thrill: Poems Jacques, Geoffrey Wayne State University Press . 9780814332900 128 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 11/29/05 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice.
Geoffrey Jacques is a poet and critic whose work has been published internationally. His previous volumes of poetry are Hunger and Other Poems (1993) and Suspended Knowledge (1998). A former McDowell Colony Fellow, he is on the faculty of the English department at Lehman College. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America Jennings, James Wayne State University Press . 9780814323182 240 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 08/01/00
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The Politics of Black Empowerment uses the experiences of grassroots activists to develop various conceptualizations and explanations of Black political behavior today.
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Body Not My Own Jones, Tanque R. Wayne State University Press . Broadside Lotus Press 9780940713291 72 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: 2/9/2021
Author picture: A collection of tightly crafted poems of intense imagery, sharp cadence, and poignant emotional resonance, representing the African American experience of enslavement in the United States.
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Beyond Blaxploitation Lawrence, Novotny and Butters Jr., Gerald R. (editors) Wayne State University Press . 9780814340769 288 pages paperback $34.99 Pub Date: 12/01/16 6x9. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series. 32 illustrations
Author picture: Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.
Novotny Lawrence is an associate professor in the radio, television, and digital media department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Gerald R. Butters, Jr. is a professor of history at Aurora University.
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"Black People Are My Business": Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation Lewis, Thabiti Wayne State University Press . 9780814344293 230 pages paperback $35.99 Pub Date: 6/30/2020
Author picture: Exploration of Bambara’s practices of liberation that encourage resistance to oppression and solidarity.
Thabiti Lewis is an associate professor of English and interim associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at Washington State University, Vancouver.
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Ideology and Change: The Transformation of the Caribbean Left Mars, Perry Wayne State University Press . University of the West Indies Press 9780814327692 248 pages paperback $25.99 Pub Date: 12/01/98 African American Life Series. 6 x 9. 3 illustrations
Author picture: Leftist political movements, organizations, and trends in the English-speaking Caribbean.
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What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three: Four Plays by Ron Milner Milner, Ron Wayne State University Press . 9780814329290 256 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 05/01/01 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: The four Milner plays collected here —Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition —are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture.
Ron Milner is a playwriter, screenwriter, and director who lives in Detroit, Michigan.
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Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967 Moon, Elaine Latzman Wayne State University Press . 9780814324653 408 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 12/01/93
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More than one hundred individuals who lived in Detroit at some time during the period from 1918 to 1967 share stories about everyday life.
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The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II Motley, Mary Penick (editor) Wayne State University Press . 9780814319611 368 pages paperback $24.99 Pub Date: 12/01/87 6 x 9. 30 illustrations
Author picture: The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen wars black servicemen fought when confronted with the official army policy of segregation and by attitudes in southern communities, as well as overseas.
Mary Penick Motley was born and raised in Detroit and is contemporary of the men whose oral histories she recorded. Mrs. Motley attended the University of Michigan for two years until severe illness forced her withdrawal. She maintains an active interest in American history, music-particularly opera-and young people.
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Keepin' It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric Nunley, Vorris L. Wayne State University Press . 9780814333488 224 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 02/14/11 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.
Vorris L. Nunley is professor of English and rhetoric at the University of California, Riverside and co-editor of Rhetoric and Ethnicity.
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"Look for Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance Parascandola, Louis J.(editor) Wayne State University Press . 9780814329870 488 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 10/21/05
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This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance.
Louis J. Parascandola is associate professor of English at Long Island University and author of Winds Can Wake up the Dead: An Eric Walrond Reader (Wayne State University Press, 1998).
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The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory Paris, Rae Wayne State University Press . 9780814344262 196 pages paperback $18.99 Pub Date: 11/13/2017
Author picture: Rae Paris began writing The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory in 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and defiance. This is a unique and thought-provoking collection that argues for a deeper understanding of past and present so that we might imagine a more hopeful, sustainable, and loving future.
Rae Paris is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, and core faculty in African American and African Studies.
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When the Church Becomes Your Party: Contemporary Gospel Music Pollard, Deborah Smith Wayne State University Press . 9780814332184 240 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 04/11/08 African American Life Series. 6 x 9. 33 illustrations
Author picture: A look at the innovations of contemporary performers of modern gospel music and their roots in the African American Christian church.
Deborah Smith Pollard is associate professor of English literature and humanities and former director of the African American studies program at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. In 2005 she was named gospel music announcer of the year during the 20th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards.
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Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall Randall, Dudley Wayne State University Press . 9780814334454 256 pages hardcover $27.95 Pub Date: 08/18/09 African American Life Series. 6 x 9. 8 illustrations
Author picture: Collects significant poetry, short stories, and essays by celebrated African American poet and publisher Dudley Randall.
Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African- American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and others.
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African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness Reid, Mark A. (editor) Wayne State University Press . 9780814345481 312 pages paperback $29.99 Pub Date: 1/12/2019 34 black-and-white images. 6x9
Author picture: Employs an interdisciplinary critical approach to discuss a selected group of black- oriented films.
Mark A. Reid is professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Redefining Black Film, editor of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and co-editor of Le Cinéma noir Américain.
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That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World Riley, Rochelle and Smith-Jones, Cristi Wayne State University Press . 9780814347546 160 pages paperback $16.99 Pub Date: 2/2/2021
Author picture: Biographical essays about African Americans who should inspire today’s youth.
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Heathen Rivera, R. Flowers Wayne State University Press . Lotus Press 9780979750991 128 pages paperback $18 Pub Date: 02/02/15 5.5 x 8.5.
Author picture: Collection of poems by R. Flowers Rivera, Naomi L Madgett Poetry award winner. Divided into four sections, Heathen is a unified collection of poetry satisfying both intellectual and emotional appetites.
R. Flowers Rivera is a native of Mississippi now living in Texas.
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Blackness Is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition Russworm, Treaandrea M. Wayne State University Press . 9780814340516 280 pages paperback $34.99 Pub Date: 10/03/16 6x9. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series. 32 illustrations
Author picture: Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to “humanize” black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.
TreaAndrea M. Russworm is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she teaches interdisciplinary classes on literature, popular culture, and new media.
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Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough, The: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship Scarborough, William Sanders Wayne State University Press . 9780814332245 448 pages hardcover $32.95 Pub Date: 12/06/04
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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.
William Sanders Scarborough (February 16, 1852 - September 9, 1926) is generally thought to be the first African-American classical scholar. Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920 after having been born into slavery. He wrote a popular university textbook in Classical Greek that was widely used in the 19th century.
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Meet Behind Mars Simms, Renee Wayne State University Press . 9780814345122 160 pages paperback $18.99 Pub Date: 3/12/2018 Made in Michigan Writers Series
Author picture: Explores the bonds of family, neighbors, lovers, and friends as they are tested in new environments.
Renee Simms is an assistant professor of African American studies and contributing faculty to English studies at University of Puget Sound.
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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney Wayne State University Press . 9780814321577 276 pages paperback $27.99 Pub Date: 02/01/89 6 x 9. 65 illustrations
Author picture: A biography of the pioneering collector whose work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.
Elinor Des Verney Sinnette is Acting Director of Howard University's Moorland- Spingarn Research Center. A former staff member of The New York Public Library, a teacher of librarians from Central Harlen to Nigeria and Kenya, a consultant to UNESCO, Dr. Sinnette has long been a contributor to the study of the history and culture of black people throughout the world.
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Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America Smitherman, Geneva Wayne State University Press . 9780814318058 298 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 01/01/86 5.5 x 8.5. 15 illustrations
Author picture: In this book, Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style.
DR. GENEVA SMITHERMAN is University Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of English, Co-Founder, Core Faculty and former Acting Director, African American and African Studies, and Core Faculty, African Studies Center, at Michigan State University (MSU), in East Lansing, Michigan.
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Walkin' Over Medicine Snow, Loudell F. Wayne State University Press . 9780814327579 328 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 02/01/98 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: A cultural look at the traditional health beliefs and practices of African Americans.
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Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World: The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois Staton-Taiwo, Sandra Wayne State University Press . Broadside Lotus Press 9780940713260 90 pages paperback $20 Pub Date: 2/5/2018
Author picture: A collection of poetic reflections on the public and private life of an American intellectual giant.
Dr. Sandra Staton-Taiwo is a resident of Montgomery, AL. She earned her doctorate in African American Literature from Howard University in 2001.
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Dear Chester, Dear John: Letters between Chester Himes and John A. Williams Williams, John A. and Himes, Chester Wayne State University Press . 9780814333556 264 pages hardcover $24.95 Pub Date: 02/05/08 African American Life Series. Edited by Lori Williams. 6 x 9. 13 illustrations
Author picture: A revealing collection of correspondence between Chester Himes and John A. Williams, two prominent twentieth-century African American novelists.
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 - November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels. In 1958 he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, on July 29, 1909.
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Negroes with Guns Williams, Robert F. Wayne State University Press . 9780814327142 128 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 06/01/98 Foreword by Gloria House. Introduction by Timothy Tyson. African American Life
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First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.
Robert F. Williams left Cuba to live in the People’s Republic of China from 1966 -1969 before receiving safe passage home and a Ford Foundation grant to work at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan.
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From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances Young, Vershawn Ashanti and Berry, Jeannette Wayne State University Press . 9780814334683 392 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 04/15/11 African American Life Series. 6 x 9. 5 illustrations
Author picture: Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.
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Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity Young, Vershawn Ashanti Wayne State University Press . 9780814332481 192 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 03/01/07 African American Life Series. 6 x 9.
Author picture: An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
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Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy Bean, Annemarie / Hatch, James V. / McNamara, Brooks (editors) Wesleyan University Press . 9780819563002 324 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date: 11/29/1996
Author picture: Gathered here are rare primary materials-including firsthand accounts of minstrel shows, minstrelsy guides, jokes, sketches, and sheet music-and the best of contemporary scholarship on minstrelsy.
ANNEMARIE BEAN is former Managing Editor of The Drama Review. JAMES V. HATCH is Professor of English and Theatre at CUNY and author of Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One (1993). BROOKS McNAMARA is Professor of Performance Studies at NYU and Director of the Schubert Archive. MEL WATKINS is the author of On the Real Side (1994).
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819567161 432 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 1/4/2006
Author picture: Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing.
SAMUEL R. DELANY is an acclaimed novelist and critic who teaches English and creative writing at Temple University and is the author of numerous works of fiction and criticism.
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Atlantis: Three Tales Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819563125 224 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 7/28/1995 6 x 9”.
Author picture: Three marvelously structured stories trace the intricate interdependencies of memory, experience, and the self.
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Einstein Intersection Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819563361 149 pages paperback $13.95 Pub Date: 7/1/1998 Foreword by Neil Gaiman. 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Author picture: A nonhuman race reimagines human mythology. The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967.
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Flight from Neveryon Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819562777 376 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 4/25/1994
Author picture: In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization.
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In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819570895 720 pages hardcover $40 Pub Date: 2/7/2017 17 illustrations, 8 journal pages. The Journals of Samuel R. Delany. Edited by
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The private journals of renowned novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. 1957-1969 (when he lived in San Francisco)
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Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities - Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819562715 402 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 11/29/1993
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Occasional Views Volume 1: "More About Writing" and Other Essays Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819579751 400 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 3/2/2021
Author picture: Essays and occasional writings from one of literature's iconic voices
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Phallos: Enhanced and Revised Edition Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819573551 224 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2013 Edited by Robert F. Reid-Pharr.
Author picture: Phallos is a 2004 novel by the acclaimed novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany. Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor's favorite, Antinous.
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Return to Neveryon Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819562784 293 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 4/25/1994
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Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819563699 476 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 8/4/2000
Author picture: In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time.
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics - A Collection of Written Interviews Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819562807 334 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 10/14/1994
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A collection of substantial written interviews. Samuel R. Delany, whose theoretically sophisticated science fiction and fantasy has won him a broad audience among academics and fans of postmodernist fiction, offers insights into and explorations of his own experience as writer, critic, theorist, and gay black man in his new collection of written interviews, a form he describes as a type of ‘guided essay.’ Gathered from sources as diverse as Diacritics and Comics Journal, these interviews reveal the broad range of his thought and interests.
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Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819568847 288 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 7/11/2012 Introduction by Matthew Cheney.
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The long-awaited reissue of a classic work of criticism -- revised and expanded.
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Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819567147 376 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 12/15/2004
Author picture: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues- technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism-have only become more pressing with the passage of time.
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Tales of Neveryon Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819562708 264 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 11/29/1993
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The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch —’Angouleme’- New Edition Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819567185 256 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2014
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A keystone text in literary theory and science fiction First published in 1978, The American Shore is a book-length essay on science fiction discourse and its attendant rhetoric. Includes a new introduction.
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819568830 288 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 7/7/2009
Author picture: Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in science fiction criticism. This edition includes two new essays.
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Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia Delany, Samuel R. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819562982 326 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 7/19/1996 Foreword by Kathy Acker. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2
Author picture: Interplanetary war, capture and escape, diplomatic intrigues that topple worlds. In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with . . . our own Earth!
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Outlandish Blues Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne Wesleyan University Press . 9780819565846 72 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date: 4/29/2003 Wesleyan Poetry Series. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2".
Author picture: Root-wise, soulful poems reinvent the domestic and spiritual spheres.
HONOREÉ FANONNE JEFFERS is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of The Gospel of Barbecue (2000), for which she received the Wick Poetry Prize.
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The Age of Phillis Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne Wesleyan University Press . 9780819579492 200 pages hardcover $26.95 Pub Date: 3/3/2020 Wesleyan Poetry Series
Author picture: Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a poet whose work examines culture, religion, history, and family. She is the author of four other books of poetry, including The Glory Gets, and the recipient of the 2018 Harper Lee Award for Literary Distinction, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation through the Library of Congress.
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The Glory Gets Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne Wesleyan University Press . 9780819575425 72 pages hardcover $24.95 Pub Date: 5/11/2015 Wesleyan Poetry .6 x 9
Author picture: A lyrical meditation on blues, womanhood, and beyond.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of The Gospel of Barbecue, Outlandish Blues, and Red Clay Suite. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
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Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker: With New and Selected Jazz Poems Komunyakaa, Yusef and Evans, Sandy Wesleyan University Press . 9780819574299 156 pages hardcover $30 Pub Date: 9/18/2013 Wesleyan Poetry Series. 10 illus.
Author picture: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is well known for his jazz poetry, and this book is the first to bring together the verve and vitality of his oeuvre. The centerpiece of this volume is the libretto 'Testimony.' Paying homage to Charlie Parker, 'Testimony' was commissioned for a radio drama with original music by eminent Australian composer and saxophonist Sandy Evans.
Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. The author of nine collections of poetry, Komunyakaa won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for his book Neon Vernacular (Wesleyan, 1994). Discount: 0.46 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Play Komunyakaa, Yusef and Gracia, Chad Wesleyan University Press . 9780819568250 112 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date: 7/1/2009 Wesleyan Poetry Series
Author picture: Bringing new life to the world's oldest story, Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia have refashioned a classic Sumerian legend into a compelling verse play.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor in the creative writing department at New York University. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and been awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. CHAD GRACIA is a theater producer, dramaturge, and consultant specializing in the geopolitics of the Middle East. He has edited six verse plays and writes extensively on theater.
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Dien Cai Dau Komunyakaa, Yusef Wesleyan University Press . 9780819511645 72 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date: 9/1/1988 Wesleyan Poetry Series. 5 1/2 x 8
Author picture: Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author.
Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado in 1975, completed his master’s degree in 1978 at Colorado State University and earned an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine in 1980. The author of nine collections of poetry, Komunyakaa won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for his book Neon Vernacular (Wesleyan, 1994).
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Magic City Komunyakaa, Yusef Wesleyan University Press . 9780819512086 68 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 10/9/1992 Wesleyan Poetry Series
Author picture: Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts.
Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado in 1975, completed his master’s degree in 1978 at Colorado State University and earned an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine in 1980. The author of nine collections of poetry, Komunyakaa won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for his book Neon Vernacular (Wesleyan, 1994).
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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems Komunyakaa, Yusef Wesleyan University Press . 9780819512116 188 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 4/30/1993 Wesleyan Poetry Series
Author picture: An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.
Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado in 1975, completed his master’s degree in 1978 at Colorado State University and earned an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine in 1980. The author of nine collections of poetry, Komunyakaa won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for his book Neon Vernacular (Wesleyan, 1994).
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Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems Komunyakaa, Yusef Wesleyan University Press . 9780819567390 468 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 9/20/2004 Wesleyan Poetry Series
Author picture: Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems in these two distinguished books and five others--over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa's work. In addition, Pleasure Dome includes 25 early, uncollected poems and a rich selection of 18 new poems.
Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. The author of nine collections of poetry, Discount: Komunyakaa won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for his book 0.46 Neon Vernacular (Wesleyan, 1994). Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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Thieves of Paradise Komunyakaa, Yusef Wesleyan University Press . 9780819564221 136 pages paperback $16.95 Pub Date: 3/13/1998 Wesleyan Poetry Series
Author picture: Centering on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier and drawing on multiple traditions, Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running through it, an erudite and soulful music.
Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado in 1975, completed his master’s degree in 1978 at Colorado State University and earned an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine in 1980. The author of nine collections of poetry, Komunyakaa won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for his book Neon Vernacular (Wesleyan, 1994). Discount: 0.46 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins Lewin, Yaël Tamar Wesleyan University Press . 9780819575968 384 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/14/2015 70 illustrations. (19 color), 7 x 10
Author picture: The biography of the first African- American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, soared high over the color line. Night’s Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman, who became a unique concert dance soloist as well as a black trailblazer in the white world of classical ballet.
Yaël Tamar Lewin is a writer and dancer living in New York City.
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In the Language of My Captor McCrae, Shane Wesleyan University Press . 9780819577115 88 pages hardcover $24.95 Pub Date: 2/7/2017 6 x 9. Wesleyan Poetry
Author picture: Poems about captivity, escape, and the possibility of freedom.
Shane McCrae is the author of four books of poetry including The Animal Too Big to Kill, Mule, Forgiveness Forgiveness, and Blood. He lives in Oberlin, Ohio.
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The Book of Landings McMorris, Mark Wesleyan University Press . 9780819576330 216 pages hardcover $26.95 Pub Date: 3/15/2016 Wesleyan Poetry . 8 illustrations. 6 x 9
Author picture: Exile, or auditions for utopia, in a time before this.
Mark McMorris’s most recent poetry collections are Entrepôt and The Café at Light. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he is professor of English at Georgetown University.
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The Little Edges Moten, Fred Wesleyan University Press . 9780819576705 96 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date: 7/5/2016 Wesleyan Poetry Series
Author picture: In Moten’s poems, the matter and energy of a singular event or person are transformed by their entrance into the social space that they, in turn, transform.
FRED MOTEN is a professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Arkansas, Poems (with Jim Behrle), I ran from it but was still in it, Hughson’s Tavern, B Jenkins, The Feel Trio, and the critical works In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Stefano Harney).
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Asked What Has Changed Roberson, Ed Wesleyan University Press . 9780819580108 80 pages hardcover $24.95 Pub Date: 3/2/2021
Author picture: Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window
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To See the Earth Before the End of the World Roberson, Ed Wesleyan University Press . 9780819569493 180 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date: 9/19/2017 Wesleyan Poetry Series. 4 color illus., 6 x 9
Author picture: A new world jazz symphony in poems.
ED ROBERSON is the author of eight books of poetry. He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award and the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and his prior books have won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Series. Having retired from Rutgers University, Roberson currently lives in Chicago where he has taught at Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago.
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro Rogers, J. A. Wesleyan University Press . 9780960229475 58 pages paperback $5.95 Pub Date: 5/1/1995
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Classic collection of black history and trivia.
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States.
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Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States Rogers, J. A. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819575166 272 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 3/18/2014
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A place for African people within Western history.
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States.
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Sex and Race - Volume 1: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands - the Old World Rogers, J. A. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819575074 314 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 7/1/2011
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Provides detailed historicobiographical surveys of black history.
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States.
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Sex and Race - Volume 2: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands — the New World Rogers, J. A. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819575081 420 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2012
Author picture: 73 illustrations. 6 x 9.
Provides detailed historicobiographical surveys of black history.
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States.
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Sex and Race - Volume 3: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands - Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition Rogers, J. A. Wesleyan University Press . 9780819575098 376 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2011
Author picture: 57 illus., 6 x 9.
Provides detailed historicobiographical surveys of black history.
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States.
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The Five Negro Presidents: According to What White People Said They Were Rogers, J. A. Wesleyan University Press . 9780960229482 19 pages paperback $2.95 Pub Date: 5/15/1965 3 illus., 5 x 8.
Author picture: Maybe Barack Obama was not the first.
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States.
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semiautomatic Shockley, Evie Wesleyan University Press . 9780819577436 104 pages hardcover $24.95 Pub Date: 9/5/2017 Wesleyan Poetry Series. 2 illus., 7 x 9 1/2
Author picture: Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence. Evie Shockley is the author of several collections of poetry including a half-red sea and the new black. She has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library
Evie Shockley is the author of several collections of poetry including a half-red sea and the new black. She has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Discount: Black Culture of the New York Public Library. She currently is an associate 0.46 professor at Rutgers University. Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher
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A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference Tucker, Jeffrey Allen Wesleyan University Press . 9780819566898 360 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 7/26/2004
Author picture: Samuel R. Delany is one of today's most interesting writers. African-American and gay, Delany crosses boundaries-generic (science fiction, memoir, theory, pornography) and academic (literary studies, cultural studies, African-American studies, gay and lesbian studies). Critics both black and white have read Delany as a writer who downplays his racial identity in order to aspire to universal values. In contrast, A Sense of Wonder shows how Delany's works participate in African- American cultural traditions.
JEFFREY ALLEN TUCKER is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge Eldridge, Elleanor (with Frances Harriet Whipple) West Virginia University Press . 9781935978237 160 pages paperback $22.99 Pub Date: March 2014 Edited by Joycelyn K. Moody
Author picture: Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she gained as a business owner. In the 1830s, Eldridge was defrauded of her property by a white lender. In a series of common court cases as defendant and plaintiff, she managed to recover it through the Rhode Island judicial system.
Elleanor Eldridge (1794–1862) was born free in Rhode Island. She and her siblings acquired considerable property and local prestige, despite rampant racism against people of color in the state. As a successful proprietor and entrepreneur in Warwick Discount: and Providence, Elleanor Eldridge cultivated and maintained harmonious 0.40 relationships with the white women she served such that they backed her during a Distro: series of lawsuits in which she was involved, and eventually won. Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall (1805–1878) was a minor US woman writer committed to CDC developing a career for herself as a publishing social activist as well as to creating Group: opportunities for other women and for people of color. BRG
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A Nickel and a Prayer Hunter, Jane Edna West Virginia University Press . 9781933202648 224 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: February 2011 Edited by Rhondda Robinson Thomas. Foreword by Joycelyn Moody
Author picture: Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Hunter was one of the most influential African American social activists of the early- to-mid-twentieth century. In her autobiography A Nickel and a Prayer, Hunter presents an enlightening two-part narrative that recollects her formative years in the post-Civil War South and her activist years in Cleveland.
Jane Edna Hunter (1882-1971) founded the Phillis Wheatley Association (PWA), an organization that offered housing, job training, and recreational activities to thousands of black women and girls who sought better opportunities in the North during the Great Migration.
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Philyaw, Deesha West Virginia University Press . 9781949199734 192 pages paperback $18.99 Pub Date: 9/1/2020
Author picture: Short stories about race and sexuality by a Pittsburgh author whose work on African American topics has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and McSweeney's.
Deesha Philyaw’s writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, the Rumpus, Brevity, TueNight, and elsewhere. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, she currently lives in Pittsburgh with her daughters.
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Sketches of Slave Life and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit Randolph, Peter West Virigina University Press . 9781943665051 328 pages paperback $24.99 Pub Date: 2/1/2016 Edited by Katherine Clay Bassard. Regenerations
Author picture: Tells the story of a formerly enslaved man who was liberated and relocated from Virginia to Boston along with his entire plantation cohort
Peter Randolph (1825e–1897) was born enslaved in Prince George County, Virginia. Randolph was freed upon his master’s death along with the entire plantation work force. In 1847, sixty-six newly freed men, women, and children made the journey to begin life anew in Boston. Katherine Clay Bassard is professor of English and interim associate dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Carrying the Colors: The Life and Legacy of Medal of Honor Recipient Andrew Jackson Smith Beckman, W. Robert and MacDonald, Sharon S. Westholme Publishing . 9781594163418 320 pages hardcover $28 Pub Date: 4/1/2020
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An escaped slave who fought for the union and whose wartime heroism was finally recognized with the nation’s highest honor for military valor.
W. Robert Beckman has taught history for more than two decades at Dunlap High School, one of Illinois’s leading public schools. Sharon S. MacDonald is professor emerita of history at Illinois State University specializing in American Civil War military history.
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The Black Panthers: The 761st Tank Battalion in World War II DiNicolo, Gina M. Westholme Publishing . 9781594162817 352 pages paperback $22.50 Pub Date: September 2017 42 halftones,6 x 9
Author picture: The first African American armored unit to see combat in the Second World War, the legendary ‘Black Panthers’. Film and Television Rights Optioned by Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Studios.
GINA M. DINICOLO is a military historian and award-winning journalist who has written on military topics for nearly two decades. She was a contributing editor at Military Officer magazine, where more than twenty of her stories graced the publication’s cover. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in history and served as an officer in the Marine Corps.
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When I Die I Shall Return to My Own Land: The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 Hughes, Ben Westholme Publishing . 9781594163562 304 pages hardcover $30 Pub Date: 5/18/2021
Author picture: The first comprehensive investigation into the first uprising against slavery in North America.
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion Quarstein, John V. Westholme Publishing . 9781594162725 288 pages hardcover $28 Pub Date: May 2017 10 halftones,6 x 9
Author picture: In 1831, a literate, enslaved African American man organized the largest slave revolt in American history - a violent step toward Emancipation that lit the fires of abolitionism and the Civil War.
JOHN V. QUARSTEIN is an award-winning historian, preservationist, and author. He is director of the USS Monitor Center at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and has served as an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary.
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