Jazz in the Hill

By Colter Harper
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh ...

Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II

Edited by Michael E. Lomax & Billy Hawkins
Categories: Sports And Recreation

Contributions by Amy Bass, Ashley Farmer, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Kurt Edward Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, and David K. Wiggins

In Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African American ...

Poor Gal

By Dan Gutstein
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane chronicles the origins and evolution of a folk tune beloved by millions worldwide. Dan Gutstein delves into the trajectory of the “Liza Jane” family ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years

Edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson, Werner Lange, Lisa J. McLeod, Jodi Melamed, Tyler Monson, Eric Porter, ...

The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education

By Wanda Little Fenimore
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their children. After two unsuccessful lawsuits, these families directly challenged legally mandated ...