Intersecting Aesthetics

Edited by Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith

Intersecting Aesthetics: ...

Deep Inside the Blues

By Margo Cooper
Foreword by William R. Ferris
Categories: Photography
Series: American Made Music Series

Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, ...

What a Difference a Day Makes

By Steve Bergsman
Foreword by Lillian Walker-Moss
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. ...

Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism

Edited by Aaron X. Smith
Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Taharka Adé, Molefi Kete Asante, Alonge O. Clarkson, John P. Craig, Ifetayo M. Flannery, Kofi Kubatanna, Lehasa Moloi, M. Ndiika Mutere, and Aaron X. Smith

In the twenty-first century, ...

A Seat at the Table

Edited by Hettie V. Williams & Melissa Ziobro
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Omar H. Ali, Simone R. Barrett, Tejai Beulah, Sandra Bolzenius, Carol Fowler, Lacey P. Hunter, Tiera C. Moore, Tedi A. Pascarella, John Portlock, Lauren T. Rorie, Tanya L. Roth, Marissa ...

Wading In

By Amy Lemco
Categories: African American Studies

Wading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast frames the fight for beach and school desegregation within the history of Black life in Biloxi, beginning with the arrival of slave ships on the Gulf ...

This Light of Ours

Edited by Leslie G. Kelen
Foreword by Julian Bond
Afterword by Clayborne Carson
Contributions by Matt Herron & Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Categories: Photography

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who participated ...

Activism in the Name of God

Edited by Jami L. Carlacio
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. ...

Terror and Truth

By Stephen A. King & Roger Davis Gatchet
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Stephen A. King and Roger Davis Gatchet examine how Mississippi confronts its history of racial violence and injustice through civil rights tourism. Mississippi’s civil rights memorials include a vast ...

Path to Grace

By Ethel Morgan Smith
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Winner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize

The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. ...