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SCOTT CHRISTIANSON
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Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Remembering Brown at Fifty
The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown
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Race against Liberalism
Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit
DAVID M. LEWIS-COLMAN
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The Working Class in American History
The Black Worker
Race, Labor, and Civil Rights since Emancipation
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Foot Soldiers for Democracy
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EDITED BY HORACE HUNTLEY AND JOHN W.
MCKERLEY
Introductions by Robin D. G. Kelley and Rose Freeman Massey
Drawn from the rich archives of the Birmingham Civil
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Down by the Riverside
A South Carolina Slave Community
CHARLES JOYNER
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408 pp. 6 x 9. 7 line drawings, 1 map, 10 tables. 2009.
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Co-winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize. Winner of the Eugene
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Race and Radicalism
n the Union Army
MARK A. LAUSE
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African or American?
Black Identity and Political Activism in
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LESLIE M. ALEXANDER
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Teachers and Reform
Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970
JOHN F. LYONS
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the Tragedy of American Radicalism
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MARGARET WASHINGTON
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Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa,
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Co-winner of the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book
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Divas on Screen
Black Women in American Film
MIA MASK
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Ralph Johnson Bunche
Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate
EDITED BY BEVERLY LINDSAY
Foreword by John Hope Franklin
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The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader
EDITED BY NATHANIEL NORMENT JR.
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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the
1960s and 1970s
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Moses and the Monster
and Miss Anne
CAROLE C. MARKS
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women [Patty Cannon, Anna Ella Carroll, and Harriet
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coauthor of A Shining Thread of Hope
224 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 12 black & white photos. 2009.
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The History of Black Women in America
Black Feminism in
Contemporary Drama
LISA M. ANDERSON
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Race Struggles
EDITED BY THEODORE KODITSCHEK, SUNDIATA
KEITA CHA-JUA, AND HELEN A. NEVILLE
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that takes capitalism seriously. The contributors utilize
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race, arguing that race and racial divisions go hand-in-
hand with the political economy of capitalism and with
globalization today.”—James Jennings, editor of Race,
Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social Capital
352 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 2009.
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Embodying American Slavery in
Contemporary Culture
LISA WOOLFORK
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slave past as a part of a transnational, multi-racial,
multi-generational critique is well conceived and
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and South African Violence
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Beauty Shop Politics
African American Women’s Activism
in the Beauty Industry
TIFFANY M. GILL
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entrepreneurs plays a crucial role in modern black
women’s political activism and community building.
208 pp. 6 x 9. 7 black & white photos. 2010.
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Radical Sisters
Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation
in Washington, D.C.
ANNE M. VALK
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tions that women formed in the 1960s and 1970s. . . .
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280 pp. 6 x 9. 9 black & white photos. 2008.
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Reading, Writing, and Segregation
A Century of Black Women Teachers in
Nashville
SONYA RAMSEY
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narrowly defined civil rights movement . . . this book
is one of the few that tell us what it was actually like
in segregated black schools.”—Glenda Gilmore,
Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History,
Yale University
208 pp. 6 x 9. 10 color photos, 6 black & white photos. 2008.
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The Man Who Adores the Negro
Race and American Folklore
PATRICK B. MULLEN
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Brother Mine
The Correspondence of Jean Toomer
and Waldo Frank
EDITED BY KATHLEEN PFEIFFER
The short friendship of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank
was one of the most emotionally intense, racially
complicated and aesthetically significant relationships
in the history of American literary modernism. In this
collection, Pfeiffer edits, annotates and introduces the
correspondence which reads like an epistolary novel.
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The Wrong Place for the Right People
BARNEY JOSEPHSON WITH TERRY TRILLING-
JOSEPHSON
Foreword by Dan Morgenstern
“An epic ode to personal integrity, creative vision and
entrepreneurial tenacity, shedding timely light on the
germination of the civil-rights movement.”—Kirkus
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Music in American Life
King of the Queen City
The Story of King Records
JON HARTLEY FOX
Foreword by Dave Alvin
“In its time—1943 to the late 1960s—King Records
was absolutely unique, and it deserves a unique
account of its history. King of the Queen City is that
account: focused, thoroughly researched, well written,
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America’s Blue Yodeler
240 pp. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4. 23 black & white photos. 2009.
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Music in American Life
Follow Your Heart
Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and
Rhythm and Blues
JOE EVANS WITH CHRISTOPHER BROOKS
Forewords by Tavis Smiley and Bill McFarlin
“A funny, heartbreaking, and insightful account of
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road.”—Aaron Cohen, Associate Editor, DownBeat
200 pp. 6 x 9. 19 black & white photos. 2008.
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African American Music in Global Perspective
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Barrelhouse Words
A Blues Dialect Dictionary
STEPHEN CALT
“An indispensable guide for blues fans and delight
those who love the twists and turns of American
vernacular language at its most creative.”—Ted Gioia,
author of Delta Blues and The History of Jazz
264 pp. 6 x 9. 2009.
60 *Cloth 978-0-252-03347-6. $75.00.
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Blues Empress in Black
Chattanooga
Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
MICHELLE R. SCOTT
“An important, new retrospective on the life and
community in which renowned blues singer Bessie
Smith was raised. Scott provides an excellent account
of the dynamics of race, sex, and material wealth in
Tennessee as it developed into a pivotal transportation
and manufacturing region.”—Daphne Duval Harrison,
author of Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
216 pp. 6 x 9. 15 black & white photos. 2008.
62 *Cloth 978-0-252-03338-4. $60.00.
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Songs in Black and Lavender
Race, Sexual Politics, and Women’s Music
EILEEN M. HAYES
Foreword by Linda Tillery
Hayes details black women’s experiences in conjunc-
tion with “women’s music” and the feminist movement
through extensive interviews with black women
musicians and women’s music festival attendees and
organizers conducted since 1992.
264 pp. 6 x 9. 2010. 64 *Cloth 978-0-252-03514-2. $75.00.
65 Paper 978-0-252-07698-5. $25.00
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Give ‘Em Soul, Richard!
Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago
RICHARD E. STAMZ WITH PATRICK A. ROBERTS
Foreword by Robert Pruter
This memoir of deejay Richard Stamz, from the Great
Migration of the 1920s when Stamz first moved from
Memphis to Chicago; through the Depression Years
when Stamz worked in Hollywood and became part of
Democratic politics within the black community there;
and into his deejaying years in the 50s when he became
an activist in Chicago’s Englewood community.
160 pp. 6 x 9. 25 black & white photos. 2010.
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Long Lost Blues
Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920
PETER C. MUIR
“Muir’s revealing book contributes significantly to
understanding how sheet music and the pop music
industry influenced the blues. An important work.”
—Tim Brooks, author of Lost Sounds: Blacks and the
Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
344 pp. 7 x 10. 31 black & white photos, 9 tables. 2010.
68 *Cloth 978-0-252-03487-9. $85.00.
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Music in American Life
East African Hip Hop
Youth Culture and Globalization
MWENDA NTARANGWI
“This gracefully written book takes East African hip
hop music as a revealing entry point into the experi-
ences of youth as they deal with issues of gender,
sexuality, economic inequality, and political power.
An excellent contribution to anthropology and African
studies.”—Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture
of Politics in Modern Kenya
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Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium
William Grant Still
CATHERINE PARSONS SMITH
“Provides a brilliant narrative of Still’s active career,
his cooperation with Carl Van Vechten, and his
prestige as an American composer. A useful introduc-
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importance.”—Wayne D. Shirley, emeritus senior
music specialist, Library of Congress
136 pp. 6 x 8.5. 15 black & white photos. 2008.
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BluesSpeak
The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual
EDITED BY LINCOLN T. BEAUCHAMP JR.
The Original Chicago Blues Annual ranks with Blues
Revue and Living Blues as one of the most signifi-
cant periodical blues publications in music history.
Founded and operated by the musician and entrepre-
neur Lincoln T. Beauchamp, the Annual gave voice
to the blues community through interviews, articles,
photos, poetry and prose writings, reflecting a broad
diversity of audiences and activities.
176 pp. 8.5 x 11. 61 black & white photos. 2010.
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