Category: Monographs

  • Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History Duke University Press 2016 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-6248-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-6263-0 Stuart Hall (1932–2014) Edited by: Jennifer Daryl Slack, Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies Michigan Technological University Lawrence Grossberg, Morris David Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The publication of Cultural Studies…

  • In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art.

  • “Springfield Road” is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as…

  • Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism Stanford University Press 2016-11-30 248 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804799560 Paper ISBN: 9781503600546 Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics James Madison College, Michigan State University Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved,…

  • The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.

  • Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race Verso Books January 2016 306 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781781689172 Hardback ISBN: 9781781689165 Ebook ISBN: 9781781689196 Patrick Wolfe Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose…

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Spiegel & Grau (an imprint of Random House) 2016-11-15 204 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0399588174 Trevor Noah The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from…

  • “After Canaan,” the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or “Canaan”) encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery.

  • A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are

  • Black and British: A Forgotten History Pan Macmillan 2016-11-03 624 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1447299738 Ebook ISBN: 978-1447299745 Digital Audio ISBN: 978-1509837113 David Olusoga A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of…