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African-American Studies eBooks

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  • Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage ... Read more

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  • Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey

    Student Peer Support, Mentorship, and Success in the Academy

    With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each ... Read more

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  • Half in Shadow

    The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay

    Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing ... Read more

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  • Claiming Freedom

    Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia

    An exploration of the political and social experiences of African Americans in transition from enslaved to citizenClaiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia ... Read more

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  • Soul Liberty

    The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia

    That churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Protestantism and American politics at the end of the Civil War, Nicole Myers Turner challenges the idea of black churches as having always been politically engaged. Using local archives, church and convention minutes, and innovative Geographic Information ... Read more

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  • Oriental, Black, and White

    The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater

    by Josephine Lee ...
    In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside oriental stereotypes of opulence and deception, comic servitude, and exotic sexuality. Lee shows how blackface types were ... Read more

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  • Neither Fugitive nor Free

    Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel

    by Edlie L. Wong ...
    Series Book 8 - America and the Long 19th Century
    Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesNeither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders ... Read more

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  • AfroAsian Encounters

    Culture, History, Politics

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of ... Read more

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  • Black Television Travels

    African American Media around the Globe

    Series Book 16 - Critical Cultural Communication
    “Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the ... Read more

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  • Occupied Territory

    Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

    by Simon Balto ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, including members of the city's political leadership and police department, who generally sympathized with white Chicagoans and viewed black migrants as a problem population. ... Read more

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  • Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels

    Series Book 19 - Music of the African Diaspora
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, ... Read more

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  • Cities and Local Governments in Central Asia

    Administrative, Fiscal, and Political Urban Battles

    Series series Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies
    This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan.Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the national government of Kazakhstan to be the drivers of national economic development, the author analyses the impact of decentralization on the role of ... Read more

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  • Translation and Race

    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice. This book explores the "unbearable whiteness of translation" in the West that excludes scholars and translators of color from the field and also upholds racial inequities more broadly.Outlining relevant concepts from critical race ... Read more

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  • The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action

    Drawing from and expanding on the themes of Michelle Alexander’s acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this in-depth guide provides a launching pad for groups wishing to engage in deep, meaningful dialogue about race, racism, and structural inequality in the age of mass incarceration. The Study Guide and Call to Action spans the entirety of The New Jim Crow, engaging the critical questions of ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy
    This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analytics to inform their policies and decision-making. However, Indigenous Peoples have often been the ... Read more

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  • Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

    Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

    by Traci Parker ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and ... Read more

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  • Discovering the South

    One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s

    During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem," as President Franklin Roosevelt declared. It was also a battlefield on which forces for and against social change were starting to form. For a white southern liberal like Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, it was a fascinating moment to explore. Attuned to culture as ... Read more

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  • Race for Citizenship

    Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America

    Series Book 23 - Nation of Nations
    Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national ... Read more

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  • Black Campus Life

    The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution

    Series series SUNY series, Critical Race Studies in Education
    An in-depth ethnography of Black engineering students at a historically White institution, Black Campus Life examines the intersection of two crises, up close: the limited number of college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and the state of race relations in higher education. Antar Tichavakunda takes readers across campus, from study groups to parties and ... Read more

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  • Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism

    The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America

    Series Book 32 - Critical America
    Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon. ... Read more

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  • Pauulu’s Diaspora

    Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice

    by Quito J. Swan ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFinalist, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Foundation AwardA Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020Winner of the African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book PrizeBermuda Literar... ... Read more

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  • The Mis-Education of the Negro: The Original 1933 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Carter G. Woodson Classics)

    The thesis of Woodson's book is that Black people of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes Black people to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were ... Read more

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  • Game of Privilege

    An African American History of Golf

    by Lane Demas ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA)--a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975. Lane Demas charts ... Read more

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  • West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals

    History, Memory, and Transnationalism

    Series Book 88 - Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
    A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts In recent decades, there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in African-styled traditions and the influence of these traditions upon the African diaspora. In this important ... Read more

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