Book Series
Studies in African American History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980
This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers,…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96129-5 (Routledge)
Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing
This book engages cosmopolitanism—a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality—in order to examine its particular deployment in the…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96355-8 (Routledge)
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s
Blackness and Genre
During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96097-7 (Routledge)
Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone
Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory
This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98029-6 (Routledge)
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The Black Panthers in the Midwest
The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966–1977
This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the Milwaukee branch, with the aim of dispelling many of the…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98148-4 (Routledge)
The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942
The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation,…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95619-2 (Routledge)
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When to Stop the Cheering?
The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball
*Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).*
*Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues
… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97938-2 (Routledge)
Black Liberation in the Midwest
The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970
This books offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship in general but more specifically, scholarship that continues… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97969-6 (Routledge)
The Selling of Civil Rights
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Use of Public Relations
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. With a tremendous human rights mission facing them, the founding SNCC members… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97889-7 (Routledge)
Courting Communities
Black Female Nationalism and "Syncre-Nationalism" in the Nineteenth Century
Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97905-4 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Jesse Owens, the Press, and the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
By Pamela C. Laucella
To be published April 30th 2009