african american studies BROKERING SERVITUDE Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century Andrew Urban The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America $39.00 • Cloth 352 Pages • 978-0-8147-8584-3 Part of the Culture, Labor, History Series
CRITICAL RACE THEORY THIRD EDITION An Introduction Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic Foreword by Angela Harris Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more.
$19.00 • Paper • 224 Pages • 978-1-4798-0276-0 Part of the Critical America series
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FACING THE RISING SUN African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity Gerald Horne The surprising alliance between Japan and proTokyo African Americans during World War II
LANGSTON’S SALVATION American Religion and the Bard of Harlem Wallace D. Best Offers a fascinating exploration into the religious thought of Langston Hughes. $35.00 • Cloth 320 Pages • 978-1-4798-3489-1
$30.00 • Cloth 240 Pages • 978-1-4798-4859-1
THE BLACK RADICAL TRAGIC Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution Jeremy Matthew Glick “A book we were all waiting for without knowing it.... Glick combines here a sober and ruthless insight into the necessary tragic twists of the revolutionary process with the unconditional fidelity to this process.” —Slavoj Žižek, Los Angeles Review of Books
UNDISCIPLINED Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 Nihad Farooq Encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse
$30.00 • Paper 280 Pages • 978-1-4798-0699-7 Part of the America and the Long 19th Century series
$27.00 • Paper • 296 Pages • 978-1-4798-1319-3 Part of the America and the Long 19th Century series
FUGITIVE SCIENCE Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture Britt Rusert Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism
$32.00 • Paper 320 Pages • 978-1-4798-4766-2 Part of the America and the Long 19th Century series
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HOW TO READ AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation Aida Levy-Hussen Offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction $26.00 • Paper • 224 Pages • 978-1-4798-8471-1
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