African American and African Diaspora Studies 2022

AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES

2022

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BUY BLACK

How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture

ARIA S. HALLIDAY Black women’s impact on consumption and culture from the 1960s to today “Buy Black offers an important and well-argued consideration of the Black women cultural producers who, in an effort to subvert a misogynoiristic system, sometimes traffic in the very stereotypical practices they wish to upend.

Halliday’s concept of ‘embodied objectification’ helps to make clear our own investments in consumer capitalism and prompts us to be more circumspect about our participation as a means to some ultimately unsatisfying end.”

—MOYA BAILEY, author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance

MARCH 2022

Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj’s hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women’s position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress.

216 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 34 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS

Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.

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ARIA S. HALLIDAY is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.

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RIDING JANE CROW

African American Women on the American Railroad

MIRIAM THAGGERT How Black women navigated train travel and Jane Crow from 1860 to 1925 “Riding Jane Crow brilliantly explores the experiences of Black women as passengers and workers on trains in post-Reconstruction America. This meticulously researched and well-written book takes the reader on a powerful journey that unveils the intricacies of race, gender, and class in travel history.”

—KEISHA N. BLAIN, coeditor of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller 400 Souls and award-winning author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

JUNE 2022

Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to “ride Jim Crow” on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work.

Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class “ladies’ cars”; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women’s experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or “progress,” through her travel experiences.

240 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 34 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 MAPS

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White Publication supported by a grant from Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

MIRIAM THAGGERT is an associate professor of English at SUNY Buffalo and the author of Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance.

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THE LIFE OF MADIE HALL XUMA

Black Women’s Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid

WANDA A. HENDRICKS A Black woman’s fight against white supremacy in two nations “An amazing narrative undergirded by unparalleled research on Hall Xuma and the locations in which it takes place. This book allows the reader to immerse themself in life as it was lived in Jim Crow and in apartheid. Despite the fact that it centers on one woman, the author has taken great care to create both of the worlds in which Hall Xuma lived, as well as a non-geographical world of Black women’s affiliations, social service activities, families, and friendships. Hendricks has been ambitious, and it has paid off.”

—GLENDA ELIZABETH GILMORE, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950

SEPTEMBER 2022 344 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 16 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

Revered in South Africa as “An African American Mother of the Nation,” Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women’s activism. Wanda A. Hendricks’s biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women’s League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma’s life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women’s activism, and of South Africa and the United States.

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WANDA A. HENDRICKS is a professor emerita of history at the University of South Carolina. Her books include Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race and Gender, Race and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois.

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Publication was supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie L. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought.

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THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF BLACK GIRLHOOD Edited by CORINNE T. FIELD and LAKISHA MICHELLE SIMMONS How and why we should seek out the Black girls of the past “What we now have is a book that interrogates how we find black girls, focusing on sources, epistemology, and scholarship. The editors have created a volume that expresses the full spectrum of black girl humanity—the repression and oppression with the joy and moments of pleasure. A foundational anthology in an emerging field.”

—FRANÇOISE N. HAMLIN, author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II The Global History of Black Girlhood boldly claims that Black girls are so important we should know their histories. Yet, how do we find the stories and materials we need to hear Black girls’ voices and understand their lives? Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons edit a collection of writings that explores the many ways scholars, artists, and activists think and write about Black girls’ pasts. The contributors engage in interdisciplinary conversations that consider what it means to be a girl; the meaning of Blackness when seen from the perspectives of girls in different times and places; and the ways Black girls have imagined themselves as part of a global African diaspora.

SEPTEMBER 2022 312 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 8 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 11 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 TABLES

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Thought-provoking and original, The Global History of Black Girlhood opens up new possibilities for understanding Black girls in the past while offering useful tools for present-day Black girls eager to explore the histories of those who came before them.

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CORINNE T. FIELD is an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America and coeditor of Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present. LAKISHA MICHELLE SIMMONS is an associate professor of history and women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans. Field and Simmons are cofounders of the History of Black Girlhood Network.

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MUSIC IN BLACK AMERICAN LIFE, 1600–1945

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Compiled by LAURIE MATHESON Introduction by Sandra Jean Graham A reader in Black musical practice and performance through World War II “Although the essays in this volume provide a selective history of early Black American music, they illustrate a desire to extend and enrich our understanding of Black musicking. As such, they have fulfilled the editorial goals of their original publications while contributing to new narrative strategies for American music history.”

—SANDRA JEAN GRAHAM, from the Introduction

JUNE 2022 288 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 12 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 25 MUSIC EXAMPLES

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press’s acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and Black gospel.

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Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life, 1600–1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the history and impact of Black music in the United States.

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LAURIE MATHESON is the director of the University of Illinois Press and longtime editor of the series Music in American Life.

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MUSIC IN BLACK AMERICAN LIFE, 1945–2020

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Compiled by LAURIE MATHESON Introduction by Tammy L. Kernodle A reader of postwar research on Black American music “Each of these chapters unearth, explore, and explain ideas, facts, events, phenomena, and records that have been neglected, forgotten, ignored, falsified or were unknown. They invoke musicological contexts that are grounded in archival and ethnographical research that illuminates the evolution of black music-­ making as it shifts from the insularity of communal spaces to the public medium of popular culture and precipitated the aberration of racial, social, and gender norms.”

—TAMMY L. KERNODLE, from the Introduction

JUNE 2022 272 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 7 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 1 MUSIC EXAMPLE

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu that folded many forms of Black expressive culture into rap; and explain Hamilton’s massive success as part of the “tanning” of American culture that began when Black music entered the mainstream.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04458-8 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08666-3 $28.00x £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05359-7 A volume in the series Music in American Life

Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music scholarship, Music in Black American Life, 1945–2020 collects groundbreaking work that redefines our view of Black music and its place in American music history.

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LAURIE MATHESON is the director of the University of Illinois Press and longtime editor of the series Music in American Life.

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A HOUSE FOR THE STRUGGLE

The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago

E. JAMES WEST Black media buildings and why they matter “A House for the Struggle breaks new ground by assessing Chicago’s Black newspapers and magazines together, and by connecting them to the buildings and neighborhoods where they operated. E. James West reminds us that journalists with national reach and tremendous ambition still faced the frustrations and indignities of life in a segregated metropolis, and he helps us to understand Chicago as the true capital of the twentieth-century Black press.”

—JULIA GUARNERI, author of Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

MARCH 2022 296 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 20 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 MAPS

Buildings once symbolized Chicago’s place as the business capital of Black America and a thriving hub for Black media. In this groundbreaking work, E. James West examines the city’s Black press through its relationship with the built environment.

As a house for the struggle, the buildings of publications like Ebony and the Chicago Defender embodied narratives of racial uplift and community resistance. As political hubs, gallery spaces, and public squares, they served as key sites in the ongoing Black quest for self-respect, independence, and civic identity. At the same time, factors ranging from discriminatory business practices to editorial and corporate ideology prescribed their location, use, and appearance, positioning Black press buildings as sites of both Black possibility and racial constraint.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04432-8 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08639-7 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05331-3 This publication is made possible with support from Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Engaging and innovative, A House for the Struggle reconsiders the Black press’s place at the crossroads where aspiration collided with life in one of America’s most segregated cities.

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E. JAMES WEST is a research associate in American history at Northumbria University. He is the author of Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America.

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VISUALIZING BLACK LIVES

Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media

REIGHAN GILLAM Afro-Brazilian media and its challenge to racism “A provocative book. Through rich ethnographic interviews and analysis, Reighan Gillam queries the relationship between black representation in the media and black cultural formation in the contemporary moment. Gillam’s engagement with everything from graffiti art to YouTube series gives us a glimpse into a new generation of black politics and social formation in Brazil.”

—CHRISTEN SMITH, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-­first century. With works that confront racism and focus on Black characters, these artists and the visual media they create identify, challenge, or break with entrenched racist practices, ideologies, and structures. Gillam looks at a cross-section of media to show the ways Afro-Brazilians assert control over various means of representation in order to present a complex Black humanity. These images—so at odds with the mainstream—contribute to an anti-racist visual politics fighting to change how Brazilian media depicts Black people while highlighting the importance of media in the movement for Black inclusion.

APRIL 2022 160 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 12 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

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An eye-opening union of analysis and fieldwork, Visualizing Black Lives examines the alternative and activist Black media and the people creating it in today’s Brazil.

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REIGHAN GILLAM is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California.

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PEACE BE STILL

How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic

ROBERT M. MAROVICH The story of a historic Black gospel recording “My mother basically took Lawrence Roberts under her wing and for a brief moment, he was a part of the Drinkard Singers. She saw his calling to minister and encouraged him to answer that call. He was treated and considered a family member. He treated me kindly and we would speak by phone frequently when he moved to Georgia. He will always be fondly remembered as one I know cared about me and my well-being.”

—DIONNE WARWICK on Reverend Lawrence Roberts In September of 1963, Reverend Lawrence Roberts and the Angelic Choir of the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, teamed with rising gospel star James Cleveland to record Peace Be Still. The LP and its haunting title track became a phenomenon. Robert M. Marovich draws on extensive oral interviews and archival research to chart the history of Peace Be Still and the people who created it. A surprise bestseller, Peace Be Still forged a template for live recordings of services that transformed the gospel music business and Black worship. Marovich also delves into the music’s connection to fans and churchgoers, its enormous popularity then and now, and the influence of the Civil Rights Movement on the music’s message and reception.

224 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 17 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

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The first in-­depth history of a foundational recording, Peace Be Still shines a spotlight on the people and times that created a gospel music touchstone.

A volume in the series Music in American Life

ROBERT M. MAROVICH hosts Gospel Memories on Chicago’s WLUW 88.7 FM and is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gospel Music, www.journalofgospelmusic.com. In 2019, he was nominated for a Grammy Award, Best Album Notes, for The Gospel According to Malaco. He is the author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music.

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ENERGY NEVER DIES

Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago

AYANA CONTRERAS The undefeatable culture of Black Chicago, past and present “Contreras puts virtually every aspect of Black Chicago culture, music, business breakthroughs, and more on the table, then shows exactly how they are all interconnected. She writes the book as the Black experience is actually lived— this guy knows that guy, but the other guy used to work for the two of them. And none of it would’ve happened were it not for a certain audacious manner of hope and optimism found in Black Chicago.”

—LEE BEY, author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-­determination, aspiration, and hustle. In Energy Never Dies, Ayana Contreras embarks on a journey to share the implausible success stories and breathtaking achievements of Black Chicago’s artists and entrepreneurs. Past and present generations speak with one another, maintaining a vital connection to a beautiful narrative of Black triumph and empowerment that still inspires creativity and pride. Contreras weaves a hidden history from these true stories and the magic released by undervalued cultural artifacts. As she does, the idea that the improbable is always possible emerges as an indestructible Afro-­Optimism that binds a people together.

192 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 12 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

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Passionate and enlightening, Energy Never Dies uses the power of storytelling to show how optimism and courage fuel the dreams of Black Chicago.

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AYANA CONTRERAS is a radio host/producer at Chicago Public Media, a founder/blogger at darkjive.com, and a columnist and reviewer at DownBeat Magazine.

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FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture

KORITHA MITCHELL Black mothers and wives navigating America’s double standards “Brilliant scholar and literary critic Koritha Mitchell shows us just how radical the act of successful homemaking was for Black women in the face of the violence it elicited from white people. Analyzing canonical Black women’s texts, she shows us just how committed, loving, and defiant Black women have been in creating home in the world and in literature.”

—MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, New York Times bestselling author of What the Truth Sounds Like 296 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 7 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

African American women investing in traditional domesticity endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in “their place.” Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to show how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it. Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others to reveal how African American women artists have honored black homes from slavery and post-­emancipation through the Civil Rights era to “post-­racial” America. As Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings, she reveals how the larger society and culture attack them not because they are deviants or failures, but because they meet American standards.

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Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women’s homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.

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KORITHA MITCHELL is a professor of English at The Ohio State University and the author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930.

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THE SPIRIT OF SOUL FOOD

Race, Faith, and Food Justice

CHRISTOPHER CARTER Soul food’s past and a new vision of its future “I've never read a book like this before! Part history book, part cookbook, part call-to-action and resource for spiritual formation. The Spirit of Soul Food is suited for a variety of audiences ready for the timely challenge of inviting a deeper integration of our ethics, actions, and daily bread.”

—REV. DR. HEBER BROWN III, Pleasant Hope Baptist Church Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to—­and marker of—­centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today?

Christopher Carter’s answer to that question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy.

The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized.

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Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today’s Black foodways at the crossroads of food justice and Christian practice.

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CHRISTOPHER CARTER is an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego. He is also a pastor within the United Methodist Church and has served churches in Battle Creek, Michigan, and in Torrance and Compton, California.

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JOURNALISM AND JIM CROW

White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America

Edited by KATHY ROBERTS FORDE and SID BEDINGFIELD Foreword by Alex Lichtenstein A pioneering work on the role of the press in building—and opposing—Jim Crow “Together, the collected essays highlight the pivotal role of a set of actors and institutions, making substantial contributions to scholarship on the origins of Jim Crow as well as filling a major gap in journalism history and media studies.”

—BRUCE J. SCHULMAN, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics

360 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 19 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 LINE DRAWINGS, 1 MAP

White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-­democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters.

They also examine the Black press’s parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all—a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment.

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04410-6 $125.00x £100.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08615-1 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05304-7 A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone

Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.

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KATHY ROBERTS FORDE is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment.

SID BEDINGFIELD is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935–1965.

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THE POETICS OF DIFFERENCE

Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN Black women artists, writers, and performers, and their theories of intersectionality “This luminous book lovingly parses the poetics of difference that forms and informs the continued life of black queer feminist thought in many genres. The work is brilliant and bracing.”

—JENNIFER DEVERE BRODY, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-­Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship.

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Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.

A volume in the New Black Studies Series, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBride

MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr and the author of Blue Talk and Love.

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TANIA LEÓN’S STRIDE

A Polyrhythmic Life

ALEJANDRO L. MADRID A new biography of the classical music artist “There is incredible beauty and power in the way this book attends to aesthetics and artists with rigor and care. What sets it apart are Madrid’s stunning interviews conducted over several years with León and her family, peers, and students. An essential document about an extraordinary artist.”

—ALEXANDRA T. VAZQUEZ, author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music Acclaimed composer, sought-­after conductor, esteemed educator, tireless advocate for the arts—Tania León’s achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Alejandro L. Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-­depth biography of the artist. Breaking from a chronological account, Madrid looks at León through the issues that have informed and defined moments in her life and her professional works. León’s words become a starting ground—but also a counterpoint—to the accounts of the people in her orbit. What emerges is more than an extraordinary portrait of an artist’s journey. It is a story of how a human being reacts to the challenges thrown at her by history itself, be it the Cuban revolution or the struggle for civil and individual rights.

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Nuanced and multifaceted, Tania León’s Stride looks at the life, legacy, and milieu that created and sustained one of the most important figures in American classical music.

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ALEJANDRO L. MADRID is a professor of musicology at Cornell University.

He is the author of the award-winning In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 and coauthor of Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance.

Publication supported by a grant from the General Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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COMPUGIRLS

How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age

KIMBERLY A. SCOTT Unleashing the potential for hope, technological acumen, and social change in girls of color “COMPUGIRLS is a compelling and thought-provoking study of girls’ of color agency as they become social justice actors in the context of the new digital world. The author asks hard questions about barometers we should use in inclusion studies and projects a critical lens on many interventions focused on underrepresentation in the fields of computing. Brava for this work. The world needs more of these social justice actors!”

—JANE MARGOLIS, author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing What does is it mean for girls of color to become techno-­social change agents— individuals who fuse technological savvy with a deep understanding of society in order to analyze and confront inequality?

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Kimberly A. Scott explores this question and others as she details the National Science Foundation–funded enrichment project COMPUGIRLS. This groundbreaking initiative teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color but, as importantly, offers a setting that emphasizes empowerment, community advancement, and self-­ discovery. Scott draws on her experience as an architect of COMPUGIRLS to detail the difficulties of translating participants’ lives into a digital context while tracing how the program evolved. The dramatic stories of the participants show them blending newly developed technical and communication skills in ways designed to spark effective action and bring about important change.

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A compelling merger of theory and storytelling, COMPUGIRLS provides a much-­ needed roadmap for understanding how girls of color can find and define their selves in today’s digital age.

KIMBERLY A. SCOTT is a professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at Arizona State University and the Founder/Executive Director of ASU’s Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology.

She is coauthor of Kids in Context: The Sociological Study of Children and Childhoods and coeditor of Women Education Scholars and their Children’s Schooling.

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BLACK INDIANS AND FREEDMEN

The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816–1916

CHRISTINA DICKERSON-COUSIN The union of Native Americans and a black church institution “An excellent study that analyzes the role of the AME Church members in westward expansion and migration, who provided stability and institution building to many black settlements in the West, incorporated Black Indians within the larger African American community, and evangelized among Native American populations.”

—LAWRENCE S. LITTLE, author of Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884–1916 Often seen as ethnically monolithic, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in fact successfully pursued evangelism among diverse communities of indigenous peoples and Black Indians. Christina Dickerson-­Cousin tells the little-­known story of the AME Church’s work in Indian Territory, where African Methodists engaged with people from the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles) and Black Indians with various ethnic backgrounds. These converts proved receptive to the historically black church due to its traditions of self-­government and resistance to white hegemony, and its strong support of their interests. The ministers, guided by the vision of a racially and ethnically inclusive Methodist institution, believed their denomination the best option for the marginalized people. Dickerson-­Cousin also argues that the religious opportunities opened up by the AME Church throughout the West provided another impetus for black migration.

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Insightful and richly detailed, Black Indians and Freedmen illuminates how faith and empathy encouraged the unique interactions between two peoples.

CHRISTINA DICKERSON-COUSIN is an assistant professor of history at Quinnipiac University.

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AFRO-NOSTALGIA

Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

BADIA AHAD-LEGARDY The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future “If you’ve been waiting for a book that steps out of trauma-­ time and the perpetual present of slavery clear-eyed and with its critical faculties alight, you’ve found it. Badia Ahad-Legardy breathes gentle and sweet-smelling fresh air into stale corners in her book on Afro-nostalgia, which cogently analyzes and affectively affirms Black cultural producers and chefs who treat the past less as an ongoing traumatic wound and more as a surrealistic space of black historical regenerative possibility and happiness. A gem.”

—AVERY GORDON, author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

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As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories.

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Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, Ahad-Legardy reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments.

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Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remedy to contend with the disillusionment of the present and the traumas of the past.

BADIA AHAD-LEGARDY is an associate professor in the Department of English and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Loyola University Chicago.

She is the author of Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture.

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SURVIVING SOUTHAMPTON

African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community

VANESSA M. HOLDEN The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region’s multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831.

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A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

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VANESSA M. HOLDEN is an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

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THE MARK OF SLAVERY

Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America

JENIFER L. BARCLAY Exploring the disability history of slavery “Barclay’s deft handling of disability through her archival research, the brilliance of her scholarship on the ways that blackness becomes synonymous with disability, her skillful use of Black Critical Disability Studies as a methodological framework, and clear and persuasive prose allows us greater insight into the debilitating effects of slavery as a disabling device for its victims.”

—DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but also to argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the 10 percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore.

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Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail, The Mark of Slavery is a powerful addition to the intertwined histories of disability, slavery, and race.

A volume in the series Disability Histories, edited by Kim Nielsen and Michael Rembis

JENIFER L. BARCLAY is an assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo.

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THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL TRADITION

African American Thought in the Twentieth Century

Edited by DERRICK P. ALRIDGE, CORNELIUS L. BYNUM, and JAMES B. STEWART Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberation.

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Expansive in scope and interdisciplinary in practice, The Black Intellectual Tradition delves into the ideas that animated a people’s striving for full participation in American life.

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Contributors: Derrick P. Alridge, Keisha N. Blain, Cornelius L. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Evans, Aaron David Gresson III, Claudrena N. Harold, Leonard Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, La TaSha B. Levy, Layli Maparyan, Zebulon V. Miletsky, R. Baxter Miller, Edward Onaci, Venetria K. Patton, James B. Stewart, and Nikki M. Taylor

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DERRICK P. ALRIDGE is a professor of education in the School for Education and affiliate faculty in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W. E. B. DuBois: An Intellectual History. CORNELIUS L. BYNUM is an associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights. JAMES B. STEWART is a professor emeritus of labor studies and employment relations and African American studies at Penn State University. His books include Flight in Search of Vision.

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BEING LA DOMINICANA

Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

RACHEL AFI QUINN Dominican women being seen—and seeing themselves— in the media “A unique and timely examination of the significance and cultural strategies of Dominican women in the contemporary era marked by neoliberal economic structures, (post) colonial geopolitical arrangements, heteropatriarchal beauty standards, and global anti-blackness. It is an important work of feminist ethnography.”

—NICOLE FLEETWOOD, author of On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class.

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Engaging and astute, Being La Dominicana reveals the little-studied world of today’s young Dominican women and what their personal stories and transnational experiences can tell us about the larger neoliberal world.

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RACHEL AFI QUINN is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston.

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A MATTER OF MORAL JUSTICE

Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice

JENNY CARSON A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity “An engaging book on a workforce that has received surprisingly little attention from labor historians. Carson provides a highly readable analysis of how racialized and gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and labor politics.”

—DENNIS DESLIPPE, author of Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution JULY 2021

Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city’s laundry workers.

Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-­ based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century.

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by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

Meticulous and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.

Publication supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought

JENNY CARSON is an associate professor of history at Ryerson University.

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WHEN SUNDAY COMES

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD Gospel music after the Golden Age “When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for—a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music.”

—ROBERT M. MAROVICH, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post– Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold’s in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music.

Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel’s incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers.

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Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music’s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.

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CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is a professor of African American and African studies and history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South and The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942.

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PASSING THE BATON

Black Women Track Stars and American Identity

CAT M. ARIAIL How African American women athletes tested a nation’s image of itself "Ariail pinpoints how important the women of track and field were to changing opinions in both white and black communities about the accomplishments of women of color. But she also powerfully argues that this story does not end with victory. Rather, she reminds us how much work gender did (and does) to undergird racism."

—KATHERINE C. MOONEY, author of Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures—both white and Black—to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America’s dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship.

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A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.

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CAT M. ARIAIL is a lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

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FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture

KORITHA MITCHELL African American mothers and wives navigating double standards Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in “their place.”

Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to “post-racial” America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards.

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Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women’s homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.

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KORITHA MITCHELL is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University and the author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930.

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MADAM C. J. WALKER’S GOSPEL OF GIVING

Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow

TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN Foreword by A’Lelia Bundles The iconic businesswoman’s life of generosity and inspiration “This is no simple story of Madam Walker’s charitable giving.

Instead, by spanning the course of Walker’s remarkable life from the daughter of enslaved parents to beauty culture mogul, Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s brilliant and impeccably researched book demonstrates that wealth did not drive Walker to give, but that she was the embodiment of a much longer, though often hidden, tradition of black philanthropy. This book will forever change the way we understand Walker’s importance and provides a much needed context for contemporary calls for economic justice.”

—TIFFANY GILL, author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry

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Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America’s first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow.

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Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s biography highlights how giving shaped Walker’s life before and after she became wealthy. Poor and widowed when she arrived in St. Louis in her twenties, Walker found mentorship among black churchgoers and working black women. Her adoption of faith, racial uplift, education, and self-help soon informed her dedication to assisting black women’s entrepreneurship, financial independence, and activism. Walker embedded her philanthropy in how she grew her business, forged alliances with groups like the National Association of Colored Women, funded schools and social service agencies led by African American women, and enlisted her company’s sales agents in local charity and advocacy work.

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Illuminating and dramatic, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving broadens our understanding of black women’s charitable giving and establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy.

TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN is an assistant professor of philanthropic studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM DYING

African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century

DANIELLE FUENTES MORGAN How African Americans have infused satire with a potent new dimension “Danielle Fuentes Morgan attunes readers to the variable registers and resonances of Black laughter in the present moment. Examining a wide range of media, from novels and television series to standup comedy and performance art, Morgan shows how the satirical impulse in Black cultural production expresses not only collective histories of subversion but individual practices of survival. A bold account of humor’s capacity to traverse the realms of sociality and interiority, Laughing to Keep from Dying is a model of Black study for the twenty-first century.”

—KINOHI NISHIKAWA, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground

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By subverting comedy’s rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way.

Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today’s African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society racializes people and bolsters the powerful myth that we live in a “post-racial” nation. The latter in particular inspires artists to take aim at the idea racism no longer exists or the laughable notion of Americans “not seeing” racism or race. Their critique changes our understanding of the boundaries between staged performance and lived experience and create ways to better articulate Black selfhood.

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Adventurous and perceptive, Laughing to Keep from Dying reveals how African American satirists unmask the illusions and anxieties surrounding race in the twenty-­first century.

DANIELLE FUENTES MORGAN is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University.

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The Fight against California’s Color Line

LYNN M. HUDSON African American resistance to white supremacy from California statehood to the 1950s “By tracing the metamorphosis of white supremacy in the Golden State and the fierce resistance to it over the long span from statehood to the 1950s, Lynn Hudson has brilliantly plumbed the depth, complexity, and variability of American racial formations and added a new chapter to our understanding of the long black freedom movement and of women’s centrality to it.”

—JACQUELYN DOWD HALL, author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, “The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled.”

From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State—in contrast to its reputation for tolerance—perfected many methods of controlling people of color.

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Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state’s color line.

Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan’s campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists’ preoccupation with gender and sexuality.

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LYNN M. HUDSON is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The Making of “Mammy Pleasant”: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.

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SOUL ON SOUL

The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams

TAMMY L. KERNODLE With a new preface A jazz woman in a jazzman’s world, with a new preface by the author “Diligently chronicles the life and times of the extraordinary innovator.”

—JAZZ TIMES The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-­year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz’s compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls.

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Tammy L. Kernodle details Williams’s life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women’s place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music’s evolution.

Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius.

Embracing Williams’s contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal life troubled by lukewarm professional acceptance, loneliness, relentless poverty, bad business deals, and difficult marriages.

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In-depth and epic in scope, Soul on Soul restores a pioneering African American woman to her rightful place in jazz history.

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TAMMY L. KERNODLE is a professor of musicology at Miami University of Ohio. She served as associate editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American Music and as a senior editor for the revision of New Grove Dictionary of American Music.

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MOBILIZING BLACK GERMANY

Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

TIFFANY N. FLORVIL The women and groups behind Black German thought and resistance of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries “Florvil’s magisterial Mobilizing Black Germany is a must-read for all scholars of the Black and African diasporas who are interested in the history of Black activism. Mobilizing Black Germany takes you to the very beginning of the Afrodeutsch movement, some years before Audre Lorde’s arrival, and puts you right inside. Florvil’s deep research crafts an unforgettable history rich with famous figures who stride the global stage and local heroes whose sacrifices and achievements were no less monumental.”

—MICHELLE M. WRIGHT, author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

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In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora.

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Tiffany N. Florvil examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. Florvil shows the multifaceted contributions of women to movement making, including Audre Lorde’s role in influencing their activism; the activists who inspired Afro-German women to curate their own identities and histories; and the evolution of the activist groups Initiative of Black Germans and Afro-German Women. These practices and strategies became a rallying point for isolated and marginalized women (and men) and shaped the roots of contemporary Black German activism.

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Richly researched and multidimensional in scope, Mobilizing Black Germany offers a rare in-depth look at the emergence of the modern Black German movement and Black feminists’ politics, intellectualism, and internationalism.

TIFFANY N. FLORVIL is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico.

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BLACK QUEER FREEDOM

Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire

GERSHUN AVILEZ Mapping a geography of black queer life through art “With pristine writing and bold thinking about queer desire, gender, and spatial justice, Avilez’s Black Queer Freedom is a timely addition to the growing body of scholar­ship on black vulnerability, trauma, and queerness.

Avilez dynamically illustrates how gender non-­conforming artists are important to challenging the boundaries of black freedom.”

—L. H. STALLINGS, author of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists’ work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces—specifically prisons and hospitals—and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.

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GERSHUN AVILEZ is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism.

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MAYOR HAROLD WASHINGTON

Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago

ROGER BILES The political biography of the African American mayor and reformer “This is a must read for all who seek valuable insight into Mayor Harold Washington—the man, his administration, and the power struggle that accompanied the election of Chicago’s first African American mayor.”

—DAVID ORR In 1983, Harold Washington made history by becoming Chicago’s first African American mayor. The racially charged campaign and election heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government.

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Roger Biles’s sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the backroom deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the Chicago machine’s autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington’s own growth through his winning of a second term—a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987.

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Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago’s modern history.

ROGER BILES is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University.

His books include Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago and The Fate of Cities: Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945–2000.

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ARTS EDUCATION IN ACTION

Collaborative Pedagogies for Social Justice

Edited by SARAH TRAVIS, JODY STOKES-CASEY, and SEOYEON KIM A guide to hands-on engagement with topics of social justice in art education classrooms Arts educators have adopted social justice themes as part of a larger vision of transforming society. Social justice arts education confronts oppression and inequality arising from factors related to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, ability, gender, and sexuality.

This edition of Common Threads investigates the intersection of social justice work with education in the visual arts, music, theatre, dance, and literature. Weaving together resources from a range of University of Illinois Press journals, the editors offer articles on the scholarly inquiry, theory, and practice of social justice arts education. Selections from the past three decades reflect the synergy of the diverse scholars, educators, and artists actively engaged in such projects.

Together, the contributors bring awareness to the importance of critically reflective and inclusive pedagogy in arts educational contexts. They also provide pedagogical theory and practical tools for building a social justice orientation through the arts.

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Contributors: Joni Boyd Acuff, Seema Bahl, Elizabeth Delacruz, Elizabeth Garber, Elizabeth Gould, Kirstin Hotelling, Tuulikki Laes, Monica Prendergast, Elizabeth Saccá, Alexandra Schulteis, Amritjit Singh, and Stephanie Springgay

A volume in the series Common Threads All rights: University of Illinois

SARAH TRAVIS is an assistant professor in art education in the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the coeditor of Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education. JODY STOKES-CASEY is an instructional support assistant at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a PhD student in art education, and a recipient of the Illinois Distinguished Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. SEOYEON KIM is an MA student in art education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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ALWAYS THE QUEEN

The Denise LaSalle Story

DENISE LASALLE, with DAVID WHITEIS The autobiography of the southern soul superstar “I’ve known Denise LaSalle for many years personally, professionally, and spiritually. Her legacy will live on forever.

I am blessed to have been a ‘Knight in Her Majesty’s court.’

Long live the Queen.”

—BENNY LATIMORE Denise LaSalle’s journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction, LaSalle updated the classic blueswoman’s stance of powerful independence while her earthy lyrics about relationships connected with generations of female fans.

Off-stage, she enjoyed ongoing success as a record label owner, entrepreneur, and genre-crossing songwriter.

As honest and no-nonsense as the artist herself, Always the Queen is LaSalle’s in-her-own-words story of a lifetime in music. Moving to Chicago as a teen, LaSalle launched a career in gospel and blues that eventually led to the chart-topping 1971 smash “Trapped by a Thing Called Love” and a string of R&B hits. She reinvented herself as a soul-blues artist as tastes changed and became a headliner on the revitalized southern soul circuit and at festivals nationwide and overseas. Revered for a tireless dedication to her music and fans, LaSalle continued to tour and record until shortly before her death.

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DENISE LASALLE (1934–2018) was a soul and blues singer-songwriter and businesswoman. Her songs include “Trapped by a Thing Called Love,” “Married, but Not to Each Other,” and the modern-day soul-blues standards “A Lady in the Street,” “Don’t Jump My Pony,” and “Someone Else Is Steppin’ In.” LaSalle entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015. DAVID WHITEIS is a journalist, writer, and educator living in Chicago. His books include Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago and Southern Soul-Blues.

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THE HEART OF A WOMAN

The Life and Music of Florence B. Price

RAE LINDA BROWN Edited and with a Foreword by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. Afterword by Carlene J. Brown An in-depth look at the groundbreaking black woman composer “Rae Linda Brown’s work extends beyond the conventional biography as it offers an analytical narrative that interrogates Price’s negotiation of the politics of race and gender, her role in advancing the black symphonic aesthetic, and her dedication to social change and racial equality on and off of the concert stage.”

—TAMMY L. KERNODLE, author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works.

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Price’s twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price’s major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.

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RAE LINDA BROWN was a professor at the University of Michigan and a professor and Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She was the author of Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters: An Annotated Catalog. She died in 2017. GUTHRIE P. RAMSEY JR. is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop.

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DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE

Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School

Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi­ faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.”

—GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 232 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES

University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.

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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.

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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.

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THE MERCHANT PRINCE OF BLACK CHICAGO

Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire

ROBERT E. WEEMS JR. The journey of the African American entrepreneur “Weems has produced a pioneering study of Chicago’s preeminent financial titan of the Black Metropolis Era of the 1920s and beyond. This first full-length, thoroughly documented account of Anthony Overton meticulously details how he amassed a business fortune while building an empire that became a major source of empowerment for women ranging from executive and managerial appointments to essential clerical positions.”

—CHRISTOPHER R. REED, The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929 248 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES 18 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 TABLES

Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton’s Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance.

Yet, despite success and acclaim as the first business figure to win the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, Overton remains an enigma.

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Robert E. Weems Jr. restores Overton to his rightful place in American business history. Dispelling stubborn myths, he traces Overton’s rise from mentorship by Booker T. Washington, through early failures, to a fateful move to Chicago in 1911.

There, Overton started a popular magazine aimed at African American women that helped him dramatically grow his cosmetics firm. Overton went on to become the first African American to head a major business conglomerate, only to lose significant parts of his businesses—and his public persona as “the merchant prince of his race”—in the Depression, before rebounding once again in the early 1940s.

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Revealing and panoramic, The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago weaves the fascinating life story of an African American trailblazer through the eventful history of his times.

ROBERT E. WEEMS JR. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. His books include Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century and Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago.

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EBONY MAGAZINE AND LERONE BENNETT JR.

Popular Black History in Postwar America

E. JAMES WEST How Ebony educated African Americans about their history “A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls ‘popular black history.’”

—PERO G. DAGBOVIE, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination.

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E. James West’s fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both the past and present.

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Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

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E. JAMES WEST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University.

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AFRICAN ART REFRAMED

Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture

BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE and J.R. OSBORN Foreword by Simon Njami New ideas on display and diffusion “This book is nothing less than a major breakthrough in museum studies. It is the first to systematically connect museum display practice to the recalibration of ‘ethnic identity’ that happens after colonialism. Its focus is on the global display of art and crafts from Africa and the African diaspora. But it is essential reading for anyone who wonders about what we want to hear from our forebears as we compel them to speak from behind glass, standing on plinths, and hanging on walls.”

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Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.

The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a history of ethnographic and art museums and look at their organization and methods of reaching out to the public. In Part Two, the authors examine museums as ecosystems and communities within communities, and they use semiotic methods to analyze images, signs, and symbols drawn from the experiences of curators and artists. Part Three introduces innovative strategies for displaying, disseminating, and reclaiming African art.

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Drawing on extensive conversations with curators, collectors, and artists, African Art Reframed is an essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art.

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BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the African and African-American Studies Research Center at the University of California, San Diego. Her books include Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and Image, Black Paris: The African Writers’ Landscape, and The Messages of Tourist Art. J.R. OSBORN is an associate professor of communication, culture, and technology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design.

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ROOTS OF THE BLACK CHICAGO RENAISSANCE

New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893–1930

Edited by RICHARD A. COURAGE and CHRISTOPHER ROBERT REED Foreword by Darlene Clark Hine The origins of an African American cultural vanguard “An important work of intellectual and cultural recovery. It brings to the surface corners of Chicago’s vibrant intellectual and cultural life that we have never considered or simply heard about in passing. The archival depth and artistic breadth will powerfully add to a much broader understanding of black cultural renaissance both geographically and conceptually.”

—DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN, author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

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The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression.

During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.

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Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance.

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RICHARD A. COURAGE is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York and a professor of English at Westchester Community College/SUNY. He is the coauthor of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950. CHRISTOPHER ROBERT REED is a professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University. His books include Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 and The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.

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AUTOCHTHONOMIES

Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora

MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY A new approach to understanding African diasporic culture “In its critique of Western rationality, Enlightenment categories, and hierarchical orderings, this book makes a significant contribution. Chancy uses race and gender theory in smart and provocative ways. Her elucidation of difficult texts and contexts is clear and convincing. The research is well presented, the arguments well developed, and the conclusions intellectually satisfying.”

—FRANÇOISE LIONNET, author of Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender, and Irony In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey.

She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African/diasporic lens and negotiating it through a lakou or “yard space,” we can see such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy demonstrates how the process can examine the salient features of texts and art that underscore African/diasporic sensibilities and render them legible. What emerges is a potential for richer readings of African diasporic works that also ruptures the Manichean binary dynamics that have dominated previous interpretations of the material. The result: an enriching interpretive mode focused on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for reader investigation.

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A bold challenge to established scholarship, Autochthonomies ranges from Africa to Europe and the Americas to provide powerful new tools for charting the transnational interactions between African cultural producers and sites.

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MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. Her books include From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic and Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women.

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PLEASURE IN THE NEWS

African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press

KIM GALLON How sex and sensation fueled the power of the black press “Blending unprecedented research into the African American press, and the journalists and editors who put the papers out, with a careful synthesis of the existing scholarship, Pleasure in the News shows how opinions about sex behavior impacted reading publics over several decades of profound change in the black experience. Kim Gallon’s systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field.”

—KEVIN MUMFORD, author of Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance—arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity.

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Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women’s sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth-century African American urban communities.

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Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in African American history and advancement while shedding light on the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the power of the black press.

KIM GALLON is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Purdue University.

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BEFORE MARCH MADNESS

The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball

KURT EDWARD KEMPER Idealism, power, and the campaign to monetize college hoops “A well-researched and provocative inquiry into the contentious early development of college basketball. Kemper lucidly exposes the numerous conflicts over fundamental principles and specific policies that repeatedly erupted before the NCAA seized complete control of the sport in 1957.”

—CHARLES MARTIN, author of Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890–1980 Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges, and regional state universities, and the competing interests of the NAIA, each with distinct interests of their own.

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Kurt Edward Kemper tells the dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century—and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Taking readers inside the competing factions, he details why historically black colleges and regional schools came to embrace commercialization. As he shows, the NCAA’s strategy of co-opting its opponents gave each group just enough to play along—while the victory of the big-time athletics model handed the organization the power to seize control of college sports.

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An innovative history of an overlooked era, Before March Madness looks at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.

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KURT EDWARD KEMPER is a professor of history and the director of the General Beadle Honors Program at Dakota State University. He is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era.

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ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Justice and Community in South Africa

HANNAH E. BRITTON Creating a feminist approach to a global problem “Britton’s sobering book offers an incisive, comprehensive view of what works and what doesn’t work in South African efforts to stop gender-based violence. Not only does this book document practical ways to end gender-based violence, but it also advances transnational feminist research on the subject. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about eliminating gender-based violence.”

—ASHLEY CURRIER, author of Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa South African women’s still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women’s rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner violence.

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Hannah E. Britton examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. Venturing into South African communities, Britton invites service providers, religious and traditional leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words. Britton finds the recent turn toward carceral solutions—with a focus on arrests and prosecutions—fails to address the complexities of the problem. Instead, changing specific community dynamics can defuse interpersonal violence. She also examines how place and space affect the implementation of policy and suggests practical ways policymakers can support street level workers.

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Clear-eyed and revealing, Ending Gender-Based Violence offers needed tools for breaking cycles of brutality and inequality around the world.

HANNAH E. BRITTON is a professor of political science and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Women in the South African Parliament: From Resistance to Governance and coeditor of Women’s Activism in South Africa: Working across Divides.

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FASHIONING POSTFEMINISM

Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture

SIMIDELE DOSEKUN The serious business of being spectacular in Nigeria and the Global South “This book brilliantly challenges the assumption of whiteness and the Western location of the postfeminist female subject, documenting how postfeminism circulates well beyond the Global North. Dosekun demonstrates a rare sensitivity to place and to the specific norms circulating that space, which, as she underscores, shape the way in which postfeminism is taken up. The arguments are forceful, and the empirical material is handled with great care, sensitivity, and insight.”

—CATHERINE ROTTENBERG, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism 216 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES

Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty.

From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world.

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Simidele Dosekun’s interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals—but also constitutes—feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism’s collective political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and subjectivity across cultures and class.

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Intellectually provocative and rich with theory, Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a fascinating performative culture.

SIMIDELE DOSEKUN is an assistant professor in media and communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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IMAGINING THE MULATTA

Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

JASMINE MITCHELL Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States “An important and very readable work on the comparative histories and visual cultural formations of race and mixed race in Brazil and the United States.”

—CAMILLA FOJAS, author of Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixedrace women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates.

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Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and US popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an “acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.

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JASMINE MITCHELL is an assistant professor of American studies and media and communication at SUNY Old Westbury.

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BETWEEN FITNESS AND DEATH

Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean

STEFANIE HUNT-KENNEDY Challenging how we think about race and disability “Slavery relied on the ever-present humanity of the enslaved. By suggesting a framework of disability, Hunt-Kennedy presents a conceptual shift that centers the human, while showing how the conditions of slavery undermined the abilities of Africans. Required reading for Caribbean scholars and scholars around the globe interested in slavery.”

—SASHA TURNER, author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race, suspended between human and animal, and as such only fit for servitude. Joining blackness to disability transformed English ideas about defective bodies and minds.

It also influenced understandings of race and ability even as it shaped the embodied reality of people enslaved in the British Caribbean.

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Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy provides a three-pronged analysis of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. First, she examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability and the parallel development of English anti-black racism. From there, she moves from realms of representation to reality in order to illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological impairments inflicted by slavery and endured by the enslaved. Finally, she looks at slave law as a system of enforced disablement.

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Audacious and powerful, Between Fitness and Death is a groundbreaking journey into the entwined histories of racism and ableism.

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STEFANIE HUNT-KENNEDY is an associate professor at the University of New Brunswick.

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BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE 2

Interviews from the Chicago Scene

STEVE CUSHING Face-­to-­face with the blues, one more time “Cushing has provided a massive public service . . . with this enthralling volume.”

—JUKE BLUES

“Rarely are sequels better than the originals, but Blues Before Sunrise 2 is a happy exception. Cushing delivers another truly significant contribution to the blues literature.”

—EDWARD KOMARA, editor of Encyclopedia of the Blues In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Brewer Phillips (talking about his days with Memphis Minnie) to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like schoolteacher Flossie Franklin, who helped Leroy Carr pen some of his most famous tunes; saxman Abb Locke and his buddy Two-Gun Pete, a Chicago cop notorious for killing people in the line of duty; and Scotty ”The Dancing Tailor” Piper, a font of knowledge on the black entertainment scene of his day.

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Cushing also devotes a section to religious artists, including the world-famous choir Wings Over Jordan and their travails touring and performing in the era of segregation. Another section focuses on the jazz-influenced Bronzeville scene that gave rise to Marl Young, Andrew Tibbs, and many others, while a handful of Cushing’s early brushes with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery, Sippi Wallace, and Blind John Davis round out the volume.

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Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues.

STEVE CUSHING has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for forty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews and Pioneers of the Blues Revival.

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BLUES LEGACY

Tradition and Innovation in Chicago

DAVID WHITEIS Photographs by Peter M. Hurley Chicago blues artists performing against the backdrop of history “Appealing to serious jazz fans, Whiteis’s history serves as a handy reference to Chicago blues. “ —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“In his latest history on Chicago blues, Whiteis is, as usual, informative and stimulating, while addressing some considerably contentious issues. The author has long demonstrated that he is one of the best writers on blues. He has a way with words that can paint a vivid portrait of his subject or scene.”

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Chicago blues musicians parlayed a genius for innovation and emotional honesty into a music revered around the world. As the blues evolves, it continues to provide a soundtrack to, and a dynamic commentary on, the African American experience: the legacy of slavery; historic promises and betrayals; opportunity and disenfranchisement; and the ongoing struggle for freedom. Through it all, the blues remains steeped in survivorship and triumph, a music that dares to stare down life in all its injustice and iniquity and still laugh—and dance—in its face.

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David Whiteis delves into how the current and upcoming Chicago blues generations carry on this legacy. Drawing on in-person interviews, Whiteis places the artists within the ongoing social and cultural reality their work reflects and helps create. Beginning with James Cotton, Eddie Shaw, and other bequeathers, he moves through an all-star council of elders like Otis Rush and Buddy Guy and on to inheritors and today’s heirs apparent like Ronnie Baker Brooks, Shemekia Copeland, and Nellie “Tiger” Travis.

A volume in the series Music in American Life Publication of this book was supported in part by a grant from the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music.

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Insightful and wide-ranging, Blues Legacy reveals a constantly adapting art form that, whatever the challenges, maintains its links to a rich musical past.

DAVID WHITEIS is a journalist, writer, and educator living in Chicago. He is a past winner of the Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Achievement in Journalism. He is the author of Southern Soul-Blues and Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories. PETER M. HURLEY is a photographer, muralist, graphic designer, and songwriter, and an active contributing photographer to Living Blues magazine.

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REIMAGINING LIBERATION How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL The work and thought of seven black women in the fight against colonialism “A transformative and unprecedented contribution. It recovers material, heretofore mostly unexamined, to identify each woman’s local and global positionalities, that is, their national circumstances as well as the areas where they and their struggles intersect. Readers eager to learn about this historical and literary era will discover gems in this book.”

—RENÉE LARRIER, author of Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. As thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state.

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Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today, Suzanne Césaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andrée Blouin, Aoua Kéita, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France’s imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities.

Expanding the possibilities of belonging beyond national and even Francophone borders, these women imagined new pan-African and pan-Caribbean identities informed by black feminist intellectual frameworks and practices. The visions they articulated also shifted the idea of citizenship itself, replacing a single form of collective identity and political participation with an expansive plurality of forms of belonging.

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ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL is an assistant professor of French at University of Michigan.

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RESHAPING WOMEN’S HISTORY

Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Edited by JULIE A. GALLAGHER and BARBARA WINSLOW Afterword by Nupur Chaudhuri Eighteen unstoppable women and the quest to become a scholar “One gasps at the life-threatening illnesses, the wrong turns, and the array of discrimination these authors face. At the next moment, the reader cheers them on, wanting to celebrate every success and intellectual discovery.

The combined elements of horrific challenges, in some cases, and redemption in all of them make for a rich autobiographical experience that powerfully stirs the reader.”

—Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice

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Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through ­figurative—and sometimes literal—minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles.

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Reshaping Women’s History presents autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists who persevered through poverty or abuse, medical malpractice or family disownment, civil war or genocide. As they illuminate their own unique circumstances, the authors also address issues all-too-familiar to women in the academy: financial instability, the need for mentors, explaining gaps in resumes caused by outside events, and coping with gendered family demands, biases, and expectations.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White All rights: University of Illinois

Contributors: Frances L. Buss, Nupur Chaudhuri, Lisa DiCaprio, Julie R. Enszer, Catherine Fosl, Midori Green, La Shonda Mims, Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie Solinger, Pamela Stewart, Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy, and Ann Marie Wilson.

JULIE A. GALLAGHER is an associate professor of history and women’s studies at Penn State Brandywine. She is the author of Black Women and Politics in New York City. BARBARA WINSLOW is a professor emerita of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism and Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change.

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BLACK SEXUAL ECONOMIES Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital

Edited by ADRIENNE D. DAVIS and THE BSE COLLECTIVE New thinking about taboo, outlaw, deviant, and subversive black sexuality “Black Sexual Economies provides a compelling collection of writing that analyzes the experiences of black gender and sexual minorities and investigates collaborations made by an interdisciplinary team of scholars examining black sexuality in a variety of historical, political, and social contexts.”

—ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the energies at the nexus of sexuality and race.

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Contributors: Marlon M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz, Adrienne D. Davis, Pierre Dominguez, David B. Green Jr., Jillian Hernandez, Cheryl D. Hicks, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune, Mireille Miller-Young, Angelique Nixon, Shana L. Redmond, Matt Richardson, L. H. Stallings, Anya M. Wallace, and Erica Lorraine Williams.

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ADRIENNE D. DAVIS is William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and vice provost at Washington University in St. Louis. THE BLACK SEXUAL ECONOMIES (BSE) COLLECTIVE is a working group of scholars that includes Marlon M. Bailey, Felice Blake, Adrienne D. Davis, Xavier Livermon, Jeffrey McCune Jr., Mireille Miller-­Young, Matt Richardson, and L. H. Stallings.

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100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

COMPILED BY DAWN DURANTE Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt Celebrating the work that women did and do to secure equal voting rights “100 Years of Women’s Suffrage highlights rarely discussed regional and racial approaches in the fight for women’s ‘first class citizenship’ through a fascinating mix of primary accounts and historical and gender studies essays.

A recommended anthology that rightly honors the Nineteenth Amendment’s centennial.”

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100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women’s suffrage movement and women’s voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women— across lines of gender, race, class, religion, and ethnicity—to gain, and use, the vote. Beginning with works that focus on cultural and political suffrage battles, the chapters then look past 1920 at how women won, wielded, and continue to fight for access to the ballot.

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A curation of important scholarship on a pivotal historical moment, 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage captures the complex and enduring struggle for fair and equal voting rights.

Contributors: Laura L. Behling, Erin Cassese, Mary Chapman, M. Margaret Conway, Carolyn Daniels, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ellen Carol DuBois, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Green, Nancy A. Hewitt, Leonie Huddy, Kimberly Jensen, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Lady Constance Lytton, and Andrea G. Radke-Moss DAWN DURANTE is editor in chief at the University of Texas Press.

NANCY A. HEWITT is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University.

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HOT FEET AND SOCIAL CHANGE

African Dance and Diaspora Communities

Edited by KARIAMU WELSH, ESAILAMA G. A. DIOUF, and YVONNE DANIEL Foreword by Thomas F. DeFrantz Preface by Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, and James Counts Early Indelible stories of living African dance within the African diaspora “Many of the authors are themselves the sources of both dance traditions created within the last decades and of significant studies about them. This work is unprecedented and, thanks to its insider perspectives, only possible as the editors have constructed it.”

—SHEILA S. WALKER, editor of African Roots, American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas

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The popularity and profile of African dance have exploded across the African diaspora in the last fifty years. Hot Feet and Social Change presents traditionalists, neo-traditionalists, and contemporary artists, teachers, and scholars telling some of the thousands of stories lived and learned by people in the field. Concentrating on eight major cities in the United States, the essays explode myths about African dance while demonstrating its power to awaken identity, self-worth, and community respect. These voices of experience share personal accounts of living African traditions, their first encounters with and ultimate embrace of dance, and what teaching African-based dance has meant to them and their communities. Throughout, the editors alert readers to established and ongoing research and provide links to critical contributions by African and Caribbean dance experts.

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Contributors: Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Abby Carlozzo, Steven Cornelius, Yvonne Daniel, Charles “Chuck” Davis, Esailama G. A. Diouf, Indira Etwaroo, Habib Iddrisu, Julie B. Johnson, C. Kemal Nance, Halifu Osumare, Amaniyea Payne, William SerranoFranklin, and Kariamu Welsh

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KARIAMU WELSH is a professor emerita of dance at Temple University.

Her books include Umfundalai: An African Dance Technique. ESAILAMA G. A. DIOUF is the founding director of Bisemi Foundation Inc. and the Arts and Culture Consultant at the San Francisco Foundation. YVONNE DANIEL is a professor emerita of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College. Her books include Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé and Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship. www.press.uillinois.edu

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JOSEPHINE BAKER AND KATHERINE DUNHAM

Dances in Literature and Cinema

HANNAH DURKIN Two great artists creating new visions of black womanhood “Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham is a tour-­de-­force brilliantly analyzing the cinematic depictions in a black Atlantic context. The full implications of the European depictions of these wonderful dancers is teased out through exhaustive attention to dancing techniques, cinematography, and the two women’s autobiographical writings. A must-read for all scholars of African American performance and cultural politics.”

—ALAN RICE, author of Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic 272 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 20 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Both also produced fascinating memoirs that provided vital insights into their artistic philosophies and choices.

However, difficulties in accessing and categorizing their works on the screen and on the page have obscured their contributions to film and literature.

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Hannah Durkin investigates Baker’s and Dunham’s films and writings to shed new light on their legacies as transatlantic artists and civil rights figures. Their trailblazing dancing and choreography reflected a belief that they could use film to confront racist assumptions while also imagining—within significant confines— new aesthetic possibilities for black women. Their writings, meanwhile, revealed their creative process, engagement with criticism, and the ways each mediated cultural constructions of black women’s identities. Durkin pays particular attention to the ways dancing bodies function as ever-changing signifiers and de-stabilizing transmitters of cultural identity. In addition, she offers an overdue appraisal of Baker’s and Dunham’s places in cinematic and literary history.

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HANNAH DURKIN is a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University. She is a coeditor of Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora.

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ISLAND GOSPEL

Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States

MELVIN L. BUTLER A rare look at Jamaican Pentecostals and their music “Island Gospel is a much-needed and important contribution to Pentecostal studies and ethnomusicology. . . .

The book offers insights that will be useful to scholars and students across a wide range of fields and disciplines.”

—JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH

“The most extensive ethnographic study to date of Pentecostal music practices. The author’s perspective as a practicing believer and respected ethnomusicologist provides unprecedented access to the community and a deep understanding of Pentecostal traditions and discourses.”

—JUDAH COHEN, author of Jewish Liturgical Music in Nineteenth-Century America

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Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicates music’s place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities.

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Melvin L. Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the concept of flow, Butler’s ethnography evokes both the experience of Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music’s vital place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their evolving tradition.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05176-0 A volume in the series African American Music in Global Perspective, edited by Portia K. Maultsby Publication of this book is supported by a grant from the Bruno Nettl Endowment for Ethnomusicology.

Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.

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MELVIN L. BUTLER is an associate professor of musicology at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and a saxophonist with Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band and many other artists.

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GROUNDS OF ENGAGEMENT Apartheid-­Era African American and South African Writing

STÉPHANE ROBOLIN The interplay between space, place, and race “A well-written and noteworthy contribution to comparative literary history.”

—JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Part literary history, part cultural study, Grounds of Engagement examines the relationships and exchanges between black South African and African American writers who sought to create common ground throughout the antiapartheid era. Stéphane Robolin argues that the authors’ geographic imaginations crucially defined their individual interactions and, ultimately, the literary traditions on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Subject to the tyranny of segregation, authors such as Richard Wright, Bessie Head, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michelle Cliff, and Richard Rive charted their racialized landscapes and invented freer alternative geographies. They crafted rich representations of place to challenge the stark social and spatial arrangements that framed their lives. Those representations, Robolin contends, also articulated their desires for black transnational belonging and political solidarity. The first book to examine U.S. and South African literary exchanges in spatial terms, Grounds of Engagement identifies key moments in the understudied history of black cross-cultural exchange and exposes how geography serves as an indispensable means of shaping and reshaping modern racial meaning.

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STÉPHANE ROBOLIN is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University.

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E-­BOOK, 978-­0-­252-­09758-­4 A volume in The New Black Studies Series, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBride

Winner, First Book Award, African Literature Association, 2017

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JEAN TOOMER

Race, Repression, and Revolution

BARBARA FOLEY Political and personal repression and the work of a Harlem Renaissance writer “An indispensable book for Toomer scholars and a heavyweight assessment of the politics of the Harlem Renaissance.”

—JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching eyewitness portraits of Jim Crow violence, few seem to recognize how much Toomer’s interest in class struggle, catalyzed by the Russian Revolution and the post–World War I radical upsurge, situate his masterwork in its immediate historical context.

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In Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution, Barbara Foley explores Toomer’s political and intellectual connections with socialism, the New Negro movement, and the project of Young America. Examining his rarely scrutinized early creative and journalistic writings, as well as unpublished versions of his autobiography, she recreates the complex and contradictory consciousness that produced Cane.

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Foley’s discussion of political repression runs parallel with a portrait of repression on a personal level. Examining family secrets heretofore unexplored in Toomer scholarship, she traces their sporadic surfacing in Cane. Toomer’s text, she argues, exhibits a political unconscious that is at once public and private.

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BARBARA FOLEY is a distinguished professor of English and American studies at Rutgers University-­Newark. Her books include Marxist Literary Criticism Today and Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro.

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BLACK CULTURAL PRODUCTION AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS Edited by ROBERT J. PATTERSON The artistic response to triumph and ongoing struggle in the 1970s “As Black artists and activists mounted calls to liberation in the 1970s, they also faced a mushrooming carceral industry, white supremacist violence, and the rise of neoliberalism. This urgent and refreshing text returns our attention to that volatile decade and to the ways cultural production provided the vital means for engaging with and reimagining the world.”

—ERICA R. EDWARDS, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership 280 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 30 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by resentment and reaction. African American artists responded with black approaches to expression that made history in their own time and continue to exercise an enormous influence on contemporary culture and politics.

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This collection’s fascinating spectrum of topics begins with the literary and cinematic representations of slavery from the 1970s to the present. Other authors delve into visual culture from Blaxploitation to the art of Betye Saar to stage works like A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White as well as groundbreaking literary works like Corregidora and Captain Blackman. A pair of concluding essays concentrate on institutional change by looking at the Seventies surge of black publishing and by analyzing Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls. . . in the context of current controversies surrounding sexual violence. Throughout, the writers reveal how Seventies black cultural production anchors important contemporary debates in black feminism and other issues while spurring the black imagination to thrive amidst abject social and political conditions.

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Contributors: Courtney R. Baker, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Madhu Dubey, Nadine Knight, Monica White Ndounou, Kinohi Nishikawa, Samantha Pinto, Jermaine Singleton, Terrion L. Williamson, and Lisa Woolfork ROBERT J. PATTERSON is a professor of African American Studies and served as the inaugural chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality.

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