African American Studies
Passage on the Underground Railroad
For seven years Stephen Marc photographed the routes traveled by fugitive slaves in their search for freedom, documenting and interpreting his research along the way. In Passage on the Underground Railroad ...
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World, the Associated Negro Press, the Chicago Star, and the Honolulu Record. Writings ...
Romance and Rights
Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. How was interracial romance treated ...
Not Just Child's Play
Winner of the 2008 Chicago Folklore Prize
Felicia R. McMahon breaks new ground in the presentation and analysis of emerging traditions of the “Lost Boys,” a group of parentless youths who fled Sudan ...
Dark Laughter
It was none other than Langston Hughes who called Oliver Wendell Harrington America's greatest black cartoonist.
Yet largely because he chose to live as an expatriate far from the American mainstream, ...
Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts
This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in the black cultural centers as blacks migrated across the ...
Mississippi Black History Makers
This book of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi includes a total of 166 figures, all who have made significant contributions.
Black history makers are defined herein as ...
Murder at Montpelier
In 1732 Ambrose Madison, grandfather of the future president, languished for weeks in a sickbed then died. The death, soon after his arrival on the plantation, bore hallmarks of what planters assumed ...
Without Regard to Race
Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black person appointed as a ...
Out of Sight
A landmark study, based on thousands of music-related references mined by the authors from a variety of contemporaneous sources, especially African American community newspapers, Out of Sight examines ...