Appeals for Justice in America
David Howard-Pitney
An enduring verbal tradition links African American leaders from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X to Alan Keyes
288 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Edited by Wilbur C Rich
African American political scientists speak out about their discipline, academic issues and racism in the profession.
456 pages
| 6 x 9
| 23 tables, 3 figures
A Literary Approach
Werner Sollors
Essays that honor the achievement of African American writers from the Enlightenment to the present
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 color photos, 1 line drawing, 8 halftones
Revised and Expanded Edition
Molefi Kete Asante
Asante's spirited engagement with culture warriors, neocons, and postmodernists updates this classic
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.2
The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South
Richard A. Couto
An examination of individuals who enacted change in the status, opportunities, and treatment of African Americans in the rural South
440 pages
| 6 x 9
| 34 halftones
Chinese Americans and the Second World War
K. Scott Wong
The Second World War’s role in bringing Chinese Americans into the mainstream of American society
268 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Basketball and the Age of Obama
Alexander Wolff
The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs
192 pages
| 10 x 8
| 108 color photos, 22 halftones
Riots and Rebirth in an American City
Edited by Jessica Elfenbein, Thomas Hollowak, and Elizabeth Nix
The first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities
294 pages
| 6 x 9
| 20 halftones, 1 map
Effective Public History in America
David W. Young
Lessons from Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood on how the public engages the past
294 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 figures, 17 halftones, 2 maps
Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Explores the restrictive myth of the strong black woman through interviews, revealing the emotional and physical toll this “performance” can have
194 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
A New Theory of Community
Harold McDougall
Community self-help movements in Old West Baltimore provide an example of participatory democracy for other neighborhoods
272 pages
| 6 x 9
The Making and Breaking of a Black Middle Class
Sharon M. Collins
A revealing study of the promising entry of Blacks into managerial ranks in corporations and the disappointing trend that tracked them into increasingly vulnerable jobs
216 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 5 tables 3 figures
African American Writers between the Nation and the World
Eve Dunbar
Establishing an imaginative space for blackness, four mid-century American writers resist literary segregation
232 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora
edited by Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II and Gus Edwards
An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history
432 pages
| 7 x 10
| 1 table
They Called Her "Hottentot"
Edited by Deborah Willis
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the “Hottentot Venus”
288 pages
| 7 x 10
| 42 duotones
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