Category: Monographs

  • Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Princeton University Press 2010 178 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780691137308 eBook ISBN: 9781400834198 Thomas J. Sugrue, David Boies Professor of History and Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Finalist, The 2010 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award,…

  • The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People University Press of Florida 1996-09-14 352 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-1451-7 Kenneth W. Porter, Professor of History Emeritus University of Oregon Edited by: Alcione M. Amos, Librarian Thomas P. Senter, M.D. This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader,…

  • Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…

  • Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

  • Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century Berghahn Books 2007 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84545-363-3 Paberback ISBN: ISBN 978-1-84545-711-2 Roger Sansi, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Goldsmith’s College, London One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome…

  • Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures.

  • Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled Louisiana State University Press 1994 496 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 12 halftones Paperback ISBN: 9780807120705 Thadious M. Davis, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought; Professor of English University of Pennsylvania Nella Larsen (1891–1964) is recognized as one of the most influential,…

  • Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Fourth Edition Continuum Press 2001-10-24 (First published in 1973) 480 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780826412676 Donald Bogle, Film Historian Winner of the 1973 Theatre Library Association Award Completely updated to include the entire twentieth century, this new fourth edition covers all the…

  • Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography University of Georgia Press 2011-05-01 246 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3968-9 John C. Inscoe, Albert B. Saye Professor and University Professor of History University of Georgia Using autobiography as an invaluable means for understanding southern history Drawing…

  • When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York’s wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation—and forced the couple into…