Tag: Harvard University Press

  • A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama Harvard University Press May 2010 192 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches no illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674050969 Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired…

  • Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to…

  • Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer Harvard University Press April 2012 352 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches; 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674046870 Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law Harvard University ” Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective…

  • The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans Harvard University Press March 2012 448 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780674059870 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones, 2 maps Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of History Tulane University This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing…

  • The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White Harvard University Press January 1996 560 pages 6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674372627 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies;  Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington It wasn’t all black or white. It wasn’t a…

  • America’s racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the…

  • Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation Harvard University Press February 2012 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map Hardcover ISBN 9780674047747 Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law University of Michigan Jean M. Hébrard, Historian and Visiting Professor…

  • Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674035911 February 2010 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 21 halftones, 2 maps Jane G. Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Vanderbilt University 2011 Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group…

  • We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity Harvard University Press 2005 336 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780674025714 Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy Harvard University 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist…

  • Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere’s most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of America’s racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations–only to be rediscovered and…