Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander (Duke University Press) |
Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism by Charles W. Mills (Oxford University Press) |
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert (New York University Press) |
In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World by Rachel Dolezal with Storms Reback (BenBella Press) |
Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture edited by Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Harnandez (University of Washington Press) |
Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad by Jeanine Michna-Bales (Princeton Architectural Press) |
Civil Rights, Culture Wars: The Fight Over a Mississippi Textbook by Charles W. Eagles (University of North Carolina Press) |
Integrated: The Lincoln Institute, Basketball, and a Vanished Tradition by James W. Miller (University Press of Kentucky) |
Roots of African American Violence: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Diversity, and Racism by Darnell F. Hawkins et al. (Lynne Rienner Publishers) |
Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help by Chin Jou (University of Chicago Press) |
The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History edited by Douglas R. Egerton and Robert L. Paquette (University Press of Florida) |
Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future by Thomas M. Shapiro (Basic Books) |
African American Lives in St. Louis, 1763-1865 by Dale Edwyna Smith (McFarland & Company) |
Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” by Johari Jabir (Ohio State University Press) |
“Covenant Keeper” Derrick Bell’s Enduring Education Legacy edited by Gloria Ladson-Billings and William Tate (Peter Lang International) |
Linking Health and Education for African American Students’ Success by Nadine M. Finigan-Carr (Routledge) |
The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color by Hank Trent (Louisiana State University Press) |
The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution by Kitty Millet (Bloomsbury Academic) |
A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland by Sydney Nathans (Harvard University Press) |
Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940 by Lorraine Elena Roses (University of Massachusetts Press) |
Granville Sharp’s Cases on Slavery by Andrew Lyall (Hart Publishing) |
Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism by Nishani Frazier (University of Arkansas Press) |
Is Science Racist? by Jonathan Marks (Polity) |
Principles of Leadership: The Harvey Leadership Model by William R. Harvey (Hampton University Press) |
Racial Inequality: A Political-Economic Analysis by M. Reich (Princeton University Press) |
The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade by Herbert S. Klein (Princeton University Press) |
The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller (University of North Carolina Press) |
Booker T. Washington in American Memory by Kenneth M. Hamilton (University of Illinois Press) |
Global Africans: Race, Ethnicity and Shifting Identities edited by Toyin Falola and Cacee Hoyer (Routledge) |
Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals: Destruction in This Land by Malgorzata Ziolek-Sowinska (Peter Lang Publishers) |
Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago by Paul Steinbeck (University of Chicago Press) |
Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women by B. Christine Arce (State University of New York Press) |
Occupational Health Disparities: Improving the Well-Being of Ethnic and Racial Minority Workers edited by Frederick T.L. Leong (American Psychological Association) |
Race and Ethnicity in America by John Iceland (Columbia University Press) |
The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait by Barbara Villet (Princeton Architectural Press) |
The Nature of the Path: Reading a West African Road by Marcus Filippello (University of Minnesota Press) |
Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa by Robyn Autry (Columbia University Press) |
Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights by Harry Harmer (Routledge) |
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Atria) |
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld (New York University Press) |
Race and Society by Tina G. Patel (SAGE Publications) |
Ten Stars: The African American Journey of Gary Cooper – Marine General, Diplomat, Businessman, and Politician by Kendal Weaver (NewSouth Books) |
Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities by Christopher C. Fennell (University Press of Florida) |
Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars by Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews (University of Alabama Press) |
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Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives by Vince Schleitwiler (New York University Press) |
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry (Beacon Press) |
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• Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity by Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas (New York University Press; 384 pages; $35). Describes the pathologizing of both race and racism, beginning in the mid-19th century with the attribution of certain qualities to Jews, blacks, the Irish, and American Indians, and later the attribution of madness to racists.
• Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers edited by Gerald R. Gems (University of Nebraska Press; 313 pages; $35). Writings on such figures as the jockey Isaac Murphy, the golfer Teddy Rhodes, the aviator Bessie Coleman, and the track star Tidye Pickett.
• Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain by Onoso Imoagene (University of California Press; 298 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A comparative study of how race, class, and ethnicity shape identity for second-generation Nigerian adults in both settings.
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• Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition by Martin R. Delany, edited by Jerome McGann (Harvard University Press; 332 pages; $19.95). Corrected, scholarly edition of a novel by an African-American writer born in 1812 to a free mother and enslaved father; the work, originally published in serial form in 1859, depicts the escape of Henry Blake from a Southern plantation, his travels in the United States, Canada, Africa, and Cuba, and his struggle to unite blacks, free and enslaved, in resistance.
• The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1838-1956: A History by James Heartfield (Oxford University Press; 486 pages; $65). Traces the history of the BFAS as its focus shifted from slavery in the Americas to colonialism in Africa.
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• Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth by Victor M. Rios (University of Chicago Press; 211 pages; $60 hardcover, $20 paperback). Draws on research among gang members in Southern California.
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