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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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I AM A MAN

I AM A MAN

By William R. Ferris
Foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III
Categories: Photography

In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of ...

Racial Terrorism

Racial Terrorism

By Marouf A. Hasian Jr. & Nicholas S. Paliewicz
Categories: Race And Ethnicity
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation’s first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing ...

Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons

Edited by Christina N. Baker
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Beginning with her critically acclaimed independent feature film Eve’s Bayou (1997), writer-director Kasi Lemmons’s mission has been to push the boundaries that exist in Hollywood. With Eve’s Bayou ...

Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry

Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry

Edited by Mollie Godfrey
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Honorable Mention Recipient of the Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship

Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her ...

Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!

Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!

By Robert L. Stone
Foreword by Eric Lewis Williams
Categories: Photography

Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended ...

Damaged

Damaged

By Evan Rapport
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American ...

Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement

Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement

By Carmen L. Phelps
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological ...

No Future in This Country

No Future in This Country

By Andre E. Johnson
Categories: History
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Winner of the 2021 Book of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association
Winner of the 2021 Top Book Award from the National Communication Association's African American Communication and ...

Groove Theory

Groove Theory

By Tony Bolden
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, ...

Chocolate Surrealism

Chocolate Surrealism

By Njoroge M. Njoroge
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth ...