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ASALH 2022

Welcome to our 2022 Association for the Study of African American Life and History conference page! Use code ASALH2022 at checkout to receive 30% off any of our African American Studies titles! Plus, get free US shipping with a $50 minimum purchase. Discount valid through October 31. View our complete list of African American Studies titles here.

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Going Up the Country

Going Up the Country

By Marina Bokelman & David Evans
Foreword by Stephen Wade
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork ...

A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

Edited by Dianne Johnson-Feelings & Jonda C. McNair
Foreword by Rudine Sims Bishop
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor Watts

The Brownies’ Book occupies ...

Wasn’t That a Mighty Day

Wasn’t That a Mighty Day

By Luigi Monge
Foreword by David Evans
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best History in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, R&B, Gospel, Hip Hop, or Soul Music from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections ...

Reading Confederate Monuments

Reading Confederate Monuments

Edited by Maria Seger
Afterword by Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Categories: History

Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. ...

Mississippi Zion

Mississippi Zion

By Evan Howard Ashford
Categories: History

RECIPIENT OF THE 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
RECIPIENT OF THE ANNA JULIA COOPER AND C. L. R. JAMES AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION IN AFRICANA STUDIES ...

Start a Riot!

Start a Riot!

By Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural ...

Black Bodies in the River

Black Bodies in the River

By Davis W. Houck
Categories: Rhetoric
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events—especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner—stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The ...

Making Tracks

Making Tracks

By Scott Billington
Foreword by Peter Guralnick
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: American Made Music Series

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working primarily ...

Following the Drums

Following the Drums

By John M. Shaw
Categories: African American Studies
Series: American Made Music Series

Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John M. Shaw follows the music from its roots in West ...

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

By Mat Callahan
Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley
Afterword by Kali Akuno
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some examples of which are sung to this day. While the ...