Delivered by Midwives

By Jenny M. Luke
Categories: African American Studies

Winner of the 2019 American Association for the History of Nursing Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing in a Book

“Catchin’ babies” was merely one aspect of the broad ...

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo

By Jeroen Dewulf
Categories: African American Studies

Winner of the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation’s forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans ...

Desegregating Dixie

By Mark Newman
Categories: History

Winner of the 2020 American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American Studies

Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time ...

Carter G. Woodson

By Burnis R. Morris
Categories: History
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

This study reveals how Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) used the black press and modern public-relations techniques to popularize black history during the first half of the twentieth century. Often overlooked ...

From Madea to Media Mogul

Edited by TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard, and Karen M. Bowdre
Foreword by Eric Pierson
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Leah Aldridge, Karen M. Bowdre, Aymar Jean Christian, Keith Corson, Rachel Jessica Daniel, Artel Great, Brandeise Monk-Payton, Miriam J. Petty, Eric Pierson, Paul N. Reinsch, TreaAndrea ...

The Construction of Whiteness

Edited by Stephen Middleton, David R. Roediger, and Donald M. Shaffer
Categories: Race And Ethnicity

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2017

This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material ...

Contesting Post-Racialism

Edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, and Rothney S. Tshaka
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by William Ackah, Allan Boesak, Ebony Joy Fitchue, Leah Gaskin Fitchue, Walter Earl Fluker, Forrest E. Harris Sr. , Nico Koopman, AnneMarie Mingo, Reggie Nel, Chabo Freddy Pilusa, Anthony ...

This Woman's Work

By Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

This Woman's Work presents a social history and critical biography based on the life of award-winning writer Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006). It offers the personal story of a popular novelist, journalist, ...

Walking Raddy

Edited by Kim Vaz-Deville
Foreword by Karen Trahan Leathem
Categories: Louisiana

Contributions by Jennifer Atkins, Vashni Balleste, Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Ron Bechet, Melanie Bratcher, Jerry Brock, Ann Bruce, Violet Harrington Bryan, Rachel Carrico, Sarah Anita Clunis, Phillip Colwart, ...

When They Blew the Levee

By David Todd Lawrence & Elaine J. Lawless
Categories: African American Studies

Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize

In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the ...