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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
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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.
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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04452-6 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08659-5 $22.95 £17.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05352-8 A volume in the series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History, edited 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
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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.
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04456-4 $125.00x £100.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08664-9 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05357-3 A volume in the series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History, edited by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White
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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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.
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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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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
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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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SURF AND RESCUE
George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture
PATRICK MOSER A new vision of the beach and the man who made it a reality “Patrick Moser is an excellent historian, surf or otherwise, and with Surf and Rescue we get Moser at his very best: clear-eyed and knowledgeable, a detail man who can nimbly pull back to present the big picture. George Freeth is an undeservedly forgotten figure in American cultural history, and Patrick Moser is the right person to bring him forward.” —MATT WARSHAW, author of The History of Surfing The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a destination for fun, leisure, and excitement.
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Patrick Moser places Freeth’s inspiring life story against the rise of the Southern California beach culture he helped shape and define. Freeth made headlines with his rescue of seven fishermen, an act of heroism that highlighted his innovative lifeguarding techniques. But he also founded California’s first surf club and coached both male and female athletes, including Olympic swimming champion and “father of modern surfing” Duke Kahanamoku. Often in financial straits, Freeth persevered as a teacher and lifeguarding pioneer—building a legacy that endured long after his death during the 1919 influenza pandemic.
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04444-1 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08652-6 $24.95s £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05344-3 A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Jaime Schultz
A compelling merger of biography and sports history, Surf and Rescue brings to light the forgotten figure whose novel way of seeing the beach sparked the imaginations of people around the world.
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PATRICK MOSER is a professor of writing at Drury University and editor of Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing.
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WOMEN’S ACTIVIST ORGANIZING IN US HISTORY
A University of Illinois Press Anthology
Compiled by DAWN DURANTE Introduction by Deborah Gray White Commemorating the triumphs and challenges of women’s activism “This anthology represents the distance that scholarship has come since the last quarter of the twentieth century. White middle-class women are no longer the starting point of all feminist scholarship and we now consider how various variables intersect and overlap to influence identity. And for all kinds of reasons, this is something to celebrate.” —DEBORAH GRAY WHITE, from the Introduction
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Women in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women’s acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods. This authoritative anthology presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History. Assembled to commemorate the series’ thirty-fifth anniversary, the collection looks at two hundred years of labor, activist, legal, political, and community organizing by women against racism, misogyny, white supremacy, and inequality. The authors confront how the multiple identities of an organization’s members presented challenging dilemmas and share the histories of how women created change by working against inequitable social and structural systems.
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04434-2 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08641-0 $28.00x £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05333-7 A volume in the series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History, edited by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White
Insightful and provocative, Women’s Activist Organizing in US History draws on both classic texts and recent bestsellers to reveal the breadth of activism by women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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DAWN DURANTE is the editor in chief at the University of Texas Press and the compiler of 100 Years of Women's Suffrage: A University of Illinois Press Anthology.
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SHADOW TRACES
Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives
ELENA TAJIMA CREEF Reconsidering the use of images in histories of Asian American women “A tour de force. Creef provides nothing less than a visual pedagogy for Asian American feminism. She mines the dark gaze of imperial power and blank spots of gender history as well as its secrets. When she engages the family album (and story of a hapless Japanese pet dog, Butchi) as a site of memory and memorialization, you cannot put the book down.” —LESLIE BOW, author of “Partly Colored”: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South MAY 2022
Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection’s range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography.
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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04440-3 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08647-2 $26.00x £19.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05339-9 A volume in the series The Asian American Experience, edited by Eiichiro Azuma, Jigna Desai, Martin Manalansan IV, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David K. Yoo
Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method for using such materials in interdisciplinary research.
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ELENA TAJIMA CREEF is a professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body.
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WORKING IN THE MAGIC CITY
Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami
THOMAS A. CASTILLO Race, class, and capitalism in America’s winter playground “Few scholars have done more than Castillo to pull back the curtain on the lives and aspirations of the multiracial class of chauffeurs, construction workers, transient laborers, and care and service workers who helped make Miami what it was—and what it is today.” —ALEX LICHTENSTEIN, author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays particular attention to how class and race relations reflected and reinforced the nature of power in Miami. Class harmony argued against the existence of labor conflict, but in reality obscured how workers struggled within the city’s service-oriented seasonal economy. Castillo shows how and why such an ideal thrived in Miami’s atmosphere of growth and boosterism and amidst the political economy of tourism. His analysis also presents class harmony as a theoretical framework that broadens our definitions of class conflict and class consciousness.
JUNE 2022 296 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 3 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 8 TABLES
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THOMAS A. CASTILLO is an assistant professor of history at Coastal Carolina University.
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LURED BY THE AMERICAN DREAM
Filipino Servants in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 1952–1970
P. JAMES PALIGUTAN How Filipino sailors sought equal opportunity “Accessible and sophisticated. Paligutan’s exploration of the recruitment and experiences of Filipino navy men is an excellent illustration of how economic underdevelopment of the Philippines in the interests of US economic and political gain created the first of many pools of cheap Filipino migrant workers. Paligutan has done a fantastic job of weaving in an intersectional analysis of gender, particularly masculinity, throughout the book.” —VALERIE FRANCISCO-MENCHAVEZ, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
SEPTEMBER 2022 216 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 11 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards—domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan’s story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies. Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military’s elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation.
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04459-5 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08667-0 $25.00x £18.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05360-3 A volume in the series The Asian American Experience, edited by Eiichiro Azuma, Jigna Desai, Martin Manalansan IV, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David K. Yoo
Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is the untold story of how Filipino servicepersons overcame tradition and hierarchy in their quest for dignity.
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P. JAMES PALIGUTAN is a lecturer in Asian American studies at California State University, Fullerton.
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TOWARD A COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH
The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas
THOMAS ALTER II A German American family’s impact on US radical politics, 1848–1932 “This engaging study moves easily from family history to broad movements for justice. It shows farmer-labor alliances as a persistent, important presence from Silesia to Texas. Alter tells a fascinating story of how solidarity with Mexican revolutionaries challenged white supremacy across borders.” —DAVID ROEDIGER, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History APRIL 2022
Agrarian radicalism’s challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson took part in decades-long activism with organizations from the Greenback Labor Party and the Grange to the Populist movement and Texas Socialist Party. As Alter tells their stories, he analyzes the southern wing of the era’s farmer-labor bloc and the parallel history of African American political struggle in Texas. Alliances with Mexican revolutionaries, Irish militants, and others shaped an international legacy of working-class radicalism that moved US politics to the left. That legacy, in turn, pushed forward economic reform during the Progressive and New Deal eras.
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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04428-1 $125.00x £100.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08636-6 $28.00x £20.99 EBOOK, 978-0-252-05327-6 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Thavolia Glymph, Julie Greene, Alice Kessler-Harris, William P. Jones, and Nelson Lichtenstein
A rare look at the German roots of radicalism in Texas, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth illuminates the labor movements and populist ideas that changed the nation’s course at a pivotal time in its history.
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THOMAS ALTER II is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Texas State University.
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LABOR’S OUTCASTS
Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934–1966
ANDREW J. HAZELTON The effort to organize migrant workers versus the Bracero Program “A much-needed examination of two intertwined institutional histories: the effort to unionize farmworkers from the New Deal era to the eve of the United Farm Workers set alongside the growth and evolution of the Bracero Program. Labor’s Outcasts exhibits a remarkable depth of archival research into the actions of officials in the labor movement and the government.” —JOHN WEBER, author of From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century SEPTEMBER 2022
In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU’s opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU’s subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union’s organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers and other movements in the years to come.
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ANDREW J. HAZELTON is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M International University.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS? Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites
Edited by ROBERT FORRANT and MARY ANNE TRASCIATTI Returning working-class people to the teaching of American history “A much-needed contribution to larger and urgent national conversations around both organized labor and placebased public labor history. The need for (and threats to) unions, the struggle for fair wages, efforts to ensure workplace safety—the headlines of the present were the headlines of the past, too. These essays make the compelling case that museums and historic sites have, can, and must actively shape public understanding, while helping to inspire the activists and organizers of the future.” —MARLA MILLER, coauthor of Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States
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The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors concentrate on ways to collect and interpret worker-oriented history for public consumption. Part Two moves from National Park sites to murals to examine the writing and visual representation of labor history. Together, the essayists explore how placebased labor history initiatives promote understanding of past struggles, create awareness of present challenges, and support efforts to build power, expand democracy, and achieve justice for working people.
HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04439-7 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08646-5 $28.00x £20.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05338-2 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Thavolia Glymph, Julie Greene, Alice Kessler-Harris, William P. Jones, and Nelson Lichtenstein
A wide-ranging blueprint for change, Where Are the Workers? shows how working- class perspectives can expand our historical memory and inform and inspire contemporary activism.
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ROBERT FORRANT is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the author of Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley. MARY ANNE TRASCIATTI is a professor of rhetoric and the director of labor studies at Hofstra University. She is the author of a forthcoming book on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and civil liberties activism.
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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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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 3
The Ozarkers
BROOKS BLEVINS The Ozarks from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century Praise for past volumes: “Brooks Blevins is an expert in weaving many diverse strands into a seamless tapestry.” —ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers and Ozarkers as colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks existed, and still exists, at the intersection of such myths and the more complex reality. Brooks Blevins’s cultural history of the Ozarks explores how the experiences of the Ozarkers have not diverged from the currents of mainstream American life as sharply or consistently as mythmakers would have it. If much of the region seemed to trail behind, the time lag was rooted more in poverty and geographic barriers than a conscious rejection of the modern world. The minority who clung to the old days seemed exotic largely because their anachronistic ways clashed against the backdrop of the evolving region around them. Blevins explores how these people’s disproportionate influence affected the creation of the idea of the Ozarks, and reveals the truer idea woven out of legend and history.
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The conclusion to the acclaimed trilogy, The History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers offers an authoritative appraisal of the modern Ozarks and its people. BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks; A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks; Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South; and Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State.
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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
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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.
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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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DANGEROUS IDEAS ON CAMPUS
Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK
MATTHEW C. EHRLICH What two controversies tell us about academia and America, then and now “Matthew Ehrlich takes what might have been local events and uses serious research to illuminate and elevate them to national and historical significance. His thoughtful weaving of threads such as academic freedom, university governance, student life, and sexual mores becomes a lively story and analysis of higher education that builds suspense, then provides answers. One of the best accounts of campus life and problems in the early 1960s I have read.” —JOHN R. THELIN, author of Going to College in the Sixties 240 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 19 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job.
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Matthew C. Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values—a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come.
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An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America’s hot-button issues.
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MATTHEW C. EHRLICH is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era and Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, winner of the James W. Tankard Book Award.
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MOVIE MAVENS
US Newspaper Women Take On the Movies, 1914–1923
Edited by RICHARD ABEL An anthology of women’s writing from the early era of film “A revelation! From snarky hard-talking dames to tartly respectable scholars, Movie Mavens recovers the diverse and compelling voices of the legions of newspaperwomen who wrote about movies during the tumultuous 1910s and early 1920s. An invaluable resource from a model film historian.” —LAURA HORAK, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone’s favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the selections show how columnists like Kitty Kelly, Mae Tinee, Louella Parsons, and Genevieve Harris wrote directly to female readers. They also profiled women working in jobs like scenario writer and film editor and noted the industry’s willingness to hire women. Sharp wit and frank opinions entertained and informed a wide readership hungry for news about the movies but also about women on both sides of the camera. Abel supplements the texts with hard-to-find biographical information and provides context on the newspapers and silent-era movie industry as well as on the professionals and films highlighted by these writers.
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An invaluable collection of rare archival sources, Movie Mavens reveals women’s essential contribution to the creation of American film culture. RICHARD ABEL is a professor emeritus of international cinema and media studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture.
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CHEFFES DE CUISINE
Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen
RACHEL E. BLACK A rare woman’s-eye-view of working in the professional French kitchen “Rachel Black has written a fascinating account of feminine sovereignty in the bouchons of Lyon. She shares timeless examples of wisdom and strength migrating to contemporary kitchens.” —ODESSA PIPER, James Beard Foundation Best Chef Midwest 2002 and founder of L’Etoile Though women enter France’s culinary professions at higher rates than ever, men still receive the lion’s share of the major awards and Michelin stars. Rachel E. Black looks at the experiences of women in Lyon to examine issues of gender inequality in France’s culinary industry. Known for its female-led kitchens, Lyon provides a unique setting for understanding the gender divide, as Lyonnais women have played a major role in maintaining the city’s culinary heritage and its status as a center for innovation. Voices from history combine with present- day interviews and participant observation to reveal the strategies women use to navigate male-dominated workplaces or, in many cases, avoid men in kitchens altogether. Black also charts how constraints imposed by French culture minimize the impact of #MeToo and other reform-minded movements.
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Evocative and original, Cheffes de Cuisine celebrates the successes of women inside the professional French kitchen and reveals the obstacles women face in the culinary industry and other male-dominated professions.
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RACHEL E. BLACK is an associate professor of anthropology at Connecticut College. She is the author of Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market and coeditor of Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass.
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DRESSED FOR FREEDOM
The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism
EINAV RABINOVITCH-FOX Feminism’s link to fashion from the 1890s to the 1970s “Fashion and feminism may seem antithetical, but Einav Rabinovitch-Fox cogently argues that they are closely intertwined. Her stimulating book highlights how Gibson girls, flappers, women designers, and even 1960s feminists saw modern clothes as an integral part of women’s freedom.” —KATHY PEISS, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women to assert claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. She also highlights how trends in women’s sartorial practices expressed ideas of independence and equality. As women employed new clothing styles, they expanded feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements and reclaimed fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness.
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A fascinating account of clothing as an everyday feminist practice, Dressed for Freedom brings fashion into discussions of American feminism during the long twentieth century.
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EINAV RABINOVITCH-FOX teaches history at Case Western Reserve University.
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FOR A JUST AND BETTER WORLD
Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938
SONIA HERNÁNDEZ Mexico’s women activists living their ideals “A significant and solid contribution to gender-labor history, the history of women, the history of Latinas in the United States, and transnational history. Hernández puts the political biography of the anarcho-unionist leaders at the center and examines their political trajectory. She also intertwines their stories with the most important changes in anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism, trade unionism, and the labor policies of the new Mexican state.” —MARÍA TERESA FERNÁNDEZ ACEVES, author of Mujeres en el cambio social en el siglo XX mexicano
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Caritina Piña Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Piña and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor broker, Piña never left her native Tamaulipas. Yet she excelled in connecting groups in the United States and Mexico. Her story explains the conditions that led to anarcho-syndicalism’s rise as a tool to achieve labor and gender equity. It also reveals how women’s ideas and expressions of feminist beliefs informed their experiences as leaders in and members of the labor movement.
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A vivid look at a radical activist and her times, For a Just and Better World illuminates the lives and work of Mexican women battling for labor rights and gender equality in the early twentieth century. SONIA HERNÁNDEZ is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Working Women into the Borderlands.
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LABOR’S END
How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
JASON RESNIKOFF Seeing automation as an ideology instead of a technology “Resnikoff’s forceful and coherent argument reveals that automation was not a technological process but an ideology which equated freedom with freedom from work and downplayed the workplace as a site of politics. As he convincingly shows, automation largely did not lead to a reduction in labor but rather to speedup, work intensification, and the degradation of labor, creating a huge chasm between the grandiose claims made about an automated future and the lived reality of workers.” —JOSHUA FREEMAN, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World Labor’s End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry’s desire to hide an intensification of human work—and labor’s loss of power and protection—behind magnificent machinery and a starry- eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor’s staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress.
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A forceful intellectual history, Labor’s End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation’s transformation of the American workplace. JASON RESNIKOFF is a lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University.
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PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO
Schooling the City, 1940–1977
MIRELSIE VELÁZQUEZ How education helped build a community “Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940–1977 is an essential contribution to the growing scholarship on Latinos in the Midwest. It powerfully chronicles the persistent efforts of the Puerto Rican community, especially women, to advocate for their children’s right to a meaningful education and a more promising future. Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Mirelsie Velázquez’s book is a must read for those interested in community- based activism, education, urban history, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies.” —LOURDES TORRES, author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children’s classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago’s Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens. Communities organized a media culture that addressed their concerns while creating and affirming Puerto Rican identities. Education also offered women the only venue to exercise power, and they parlayed their positions to take lead roles in activist and political circles. In time, a politicized Puerto Rican community gave voice to a previously silenced group—and highlighted that colonialism does not end when immigrants live among their colonizers.
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A perceptive look at big-city community building, Puerto Rican Chicago reveals the links between justice in education and a people’s claim to space in their new home.
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MIRELSIE VELÁZQUEZ is an associate professor of education at the University of Oklahoma.
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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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Remembering the Cultural Revolution
LEI X. OUYANG Music, memory, and a legacy of extremes “This is a significant contribution to the sparse literature on musical life during China’s Cultural Revolution. The focus on individual experience and the categorization of different impacts on different generations are unusual and illuminating.” —HELEN REES, author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes. Interviews combine with ethnographic fieldwork and surveys to explore both the Cultural Revolution’s effect on those who lived through it as children and contemporary remembrance of the music created to serve the Maoist regime. As Ouyang shows, the weaponization of music served an ideological revolution but also revolutionized the senses. She examines essential questions raised by this phenomenon, including: What did the revolutionization look, sound, and feel like? What does it take for individuals and groups to engage with such music? And what is the impact of such an experience over time?
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Perceptive and provocative, Music as Mao’s Weapon is an insightful look at the exploitation and manipulation of the arts under authoritarianism.
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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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Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital
CARA A. FINNEGAN Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks “This narrative weaves the evolution of a technology, a communications medium, and the highest office in the land into a vivid historical panorama. In current times, in an atmosphere in which visual politics can be all too affecting and effecting, Photographic Presidents places the visual presidency into a necessary frame.” —MICHAEL SHAW, publisher, Reading the Pictures Lincoln’s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson’s swearing in. George W. Bush’s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications.
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An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.
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CARA A. FINNEGAN is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression and Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.
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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.
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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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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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DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY
How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace
GEORGIA CERVIN How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women’s gymnastics “Georgia Cervin's Degrees of Difficulty is an enthralling analysis of elite women's gymnastics, from a scholar's and insider's view. Through carefully applied lenses of gender, race, power, and politics, Cervin exposes the historical underbelly of cheating, bribery, abuse, and political manipulation in one of the world's most popular Olympic Sports.” —KEVIN B. WAMSLEY, coauthor of Sport in Canada: A History, fourth edition Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world. Georgia Cervin offers a unique history of women’s gymnastics, examining how the high-stakes diplomatic rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for exploitation. Yet, a surprising spirit of international collaboration arose to decide the social values and image of femininity demonstrated by the sport. Cervin also charts the changes in style, equipment, training, and participants that transformed the sport, as explosive athleticism replaced balletic grace and gymnastics dominance shifted from East to West.
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Sweeping and revelatory, Degrees of Difficulty tells a story of international friction, unexpected cooperation, and the legacy of abuse and betrayal created by the winat-all-cost attitudes of the Cold War.
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GEORGIA CERVIN is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former international gymnast.
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FROM FOOTBALL TO SOCCER
The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States
BRIAN D. BUNK Rediscovering soccer’s long history in the U.S. “This excellent and timely history on the origins of football in North America fills an important gap. As soccer grows in popularity today, Brian Bunk shows that it has been part of the sporting scene for many centuries. This book is especially welcome for its thorough discussion of Native American football's long history, and the alltoo-often understated role of women in the early development of the game on the continent. This book is essential reading for historians of sport, and an absorbing read for the casual soccer/football fan." —STEFAN SZYMANSKI, coauthor of Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany, Spain, and France Win, and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
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Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer’s emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States—and the beautiful game’s transformation into a truly international sport.
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A multilayered look at one game’s place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history. BRIAN D. BUNK is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War and coeditor of Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne.
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TENNIS
A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals
GREG RUTH Analyzing how tennis turned pro “This book is for tennis pros, serious amateurs, hackers, lovers of the game, and anyone interested in sport history. Greg Ruth shows us how tennis evolved from England’s royal court to L.A.’s public courts to the U.S. Open’s billionaire courts. Featuring big personalities and terrific storytelling, Tennis shows us how and why the game evolved over the years. This is excellent sport history.” —ELLIOTT J. GORN, coauthor of A Brief History of American Sports, Second Edition The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis—the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis’s evolution into the game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women’s tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment.
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Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.
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SPOON RIVER AMERICA
Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town
JASON STACY From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life “Cogent and persuasive. By situating Spoon River Anthology within a number of contexts—literary, biographical, historical, political, performance, reception history—Stacy shows us why the book has become an American classic and how it has maintained its staying power for more than one hundred years.” —MARCIA NOE, author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters’s work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century.
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A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner’s poetry helped change a nation’s conception of itself. JASON STACY is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman’s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition.
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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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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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GRAND ARMY OF LABOR
Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War
MATTHEW E. STANLEY Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom “This powerful and judicious study changes how we think about Civil War memories and working-class histories. Sure grasp of the multiplicity of United States labor—African American and white, native-born and newcoming, female and male, North and South, veteran and not—illuminates how a constantly recreated remembrance of the emancipatory side of the war could produce a broad language of freedom, one bound to contain its own contradictions and limitations.” —DAVID ROEDIGER, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
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From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working-class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies. Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism.
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An original consideration of meaning and memory, Grand Army of Labor reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers’ rights. MATTHEW E. STANLEY is an associate professor of history at Albany State University. He is the author of The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America.
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TECHNOLOGY AND THE HISTORIAN
Transformations in the Digital Age
ADAM CRYMBLE Charting the evolution of practicing digital history “This book explodes many of the foundation myths upon which digital history has been built and replaces them with a clear-eyed account that melds historiography, technology, and pedagogy. In beautiful prose, Crymble has identified the streams of influence that have shaped the field.” —TIM HITCHCOCK, University of Sussex Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive—all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology’s role in the field’s development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars.
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Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for the continuing study of history in the digital era.
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ADAM CRYMBLE is an editor of Programming Historian and a lecturer of digital humanities at University College London.
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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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A History of America’s New National Pastime NFL Centennial Edition
RICHARD C. CREPEAU The evolution of an American passion Praise for the previous edition: “[Crepeau] has brought together from a great many sources the information necessary to anyone who wants to understand the origins and the workings of the powerful and profitable entertainment vehicle the NFL has become.” —BILL LITTLEFIELD, NPR’s Only a Game A multibillion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today’s NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society. This updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league’s centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard C. Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today:
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• Tensions between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue, including analysis of the 2020 collective bargaining agreement
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• The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality
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• Andrew Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health
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• Paul Tagliabue’s role in covering up information on concussions • The Super Bowl’s evolution into a national holiday Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story. RICHARD C. CREPEAU is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Florida and former president of the North American Society for Sports History. He is the author of Baseball: America’s Diamond Mind, 1919–1941.
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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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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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SWEET GREEKS
First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland
ANN FLESOR BECK Making candy—and a new life—in the Midwest “This remarkable story is both unique and universal. It is the story of tenacious immigrant entrepreneurs overcoming enormous odds to find that sweet spot, making candy that would become a permanent feature of American daily life.” —KEN ALBALA, author of Noodle Soup: Recipes, Techniques, Obsession and grandson of an immigrant from Greece Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the confectioner’s trade and opened a business that still stands on Main Street. Sweet Greeks sets the story of Gus Flesor’s life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of Greek migration to the Midwest. Ann Flesor Beck’s charming personal account re-creates the atmosphere of her grandfather’s candy kitchen with its odors of chocolate and popcorn and the comings-and-goings of family members. “The Store” represented success while anchoring the business district of Gus’s chosen home. It also embodied the Midwest émigré experience of chain migration, immigrant networking, resistance and outright threats by local townspeople, food-related entrepreneurship, and tensions over whether later generations would take over the business.
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ANN FLESOR BECK is a third-generation Greek confectioner and independent scholar. With her sister, she co-owns and operates Flesor’s Candy Kitchen in Tuscola, Illinois.
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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH BLUEGRASS
Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy
Edited by FRED BARTENSTEIN and CURTIS W. ELLISON Foreword by Neil V. Rosenberg High lonesome in the heartland “A new urban folk music, nurtured and shaped by a folk community in an industrial setting, has made the world familiar with southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass. Many facets of the region’s rich musical heritage are explored and celebrated in this book, a welcome addition to the literature on bluegrass.” —NEIL V. ROSENBERG, from the foreword JANUARY 2021
In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Between 1947 and 1989, they created an internationally renowned capital for the thriving bluegrass music genre, centered on the industrial region of Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton, Middletown, and Springfield. Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison edit a collection of eyewitness narratives and in-depth analyses that explore southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass musicians, radio broadcasters, recording studios, record labels, and performance venues, along with the music’s contributions to religious activities, community development, and public education. As the bluegrass scene grew, southwestern Ohio’s distinctive sounds reached new fans and influenced those everywhere who continue to play, produce, and love roots music.
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Revelatory and multifaceted, Industrial Strength Bluegrass shares the inspiring story of a bluegrass hotbed and the people who created it.
Publication supported by a grant from the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music.
Contributors: Fred Bartenstein, Curtis W. Ellison, Jon Hartley Fox, Rick Good, Lily Isaacs, Ben Krakauer, Mac McDivitt, Nathan McGee, Daniel Mullins, Joe Mullins, Larry Nager, Phillip J. Obermiller, Bobby Osborne, and Neil V. Rosenberg.
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FRED BARTENSTEIN is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Bluegrass Bluesman, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and two anthologies of writings by folk arts impresario Joe Wilson. CURTIS W. ELLISON is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and editor of Donald Davidson’s The Big Ballad Jamboree.
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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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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 1
The Old Ozarks
BROOKS BLEVINS The Ozarks before they were the Ozarks “Brooks Blevins is an expert in weaving many diverse strands into a seamless tapestry.” —ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the hardscrabble farmers and visionary entrepreneurs. Brooks Blevins begins his three-volume history of the region and its inhabitants in deep prehistory, charting how the highlands came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of the economic, social, and political forces that drove American history. But he also tells the colorful human stories that fill the region’s storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks’ places and people.
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A monumental history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.
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BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks; Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South; and Arkansas, Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State.
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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 2
The Conflicted Ozarks
BROOKS BLEVINS Slavery, civil war, and the birth of the modern Ozarks “Brooks Blevins’s second volume of A History of the Ozarks is the work of a premier historian and a master storyteller. Whether the topic is Civil War guerrillas or postwar Bald Knobbers, Blevins peels away the layers of myth and legend to reveal the region’s heritage and history in all its complexity. Highly recommended for both the scholar and the general reader.” —WILLIAM GARRETT PISTON, coauthor of Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest and West, North and South, frontier and civilization, and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region, neighbor turned against neighbor, unleashing a generation of animus and violence that lasted long after 1865.
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The second volume of Brooks Blevins’s history of the Ozarks begins with the region’s distinctive relationship to slavery. Because the Ozarks were largely unsuitable for plantation farming, residents used enslaved persons on a smaller scale or, in some places, not at all. Blevins moves on to the devastating Civil War years where the dehumanizing, personal nature of Ozark conflict was made uglier by the predations of marching armies and criminal gangs. Blending personal stories with a wide narrative scope, he examines how civilians and soldiers alike experienced the war, from brutal partisan warfare to ill-advised refugee policies to women’s struggles to safeguard farms and stay alive in an atmosphere of constant danger. The war stunted the region’s growth, delaying the development of Ozarks society and the processes of physical, economic, and social reconstruction. More and more, striving uplanders dedicated to modernization fought an image of the Ozarks as a land of mountaineers and hillbillies hostile to the idea of progress. Yet the dawn of the twentieth century saw the uplands emerge as an increasingly uniform culture forged, for better and worse, in the tumult of a conflicted era.
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BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks and Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South.
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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. 400 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 13 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 4 MAPS
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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STARRING WOMEN
Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850
SARA E. LAMPERT Women pushing the limits of public life in antebellum America “An excellent intervention in women’s history and theater history, with significant new insights into the precarious gender politics that accompanied star female actors’ appearance and the ways the economic underpinnings of the business of theater colored those politics. This is an important book.” —CAROLYN EASTMAN, author of A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. These women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of nineteenth-century gender roles, sparking debates about women’s place in public life. Yet even their unprecedented wealth and prominence failed to break the patriarchal family structures that governed their lives and conditioned their careers. Inevitable contradictions arose. The burgeoning celebrity culture of the time forced women stage stars to don the costumes of domestic femininity even as the unsettled nature of life in the theater defied these ideals.
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A revealing foray into a lost time, Starring Women returns a generation of performers to their central place in the early history of American theater. SARA E. LAMPERT is an associate professor of history at the University of South Dakota.
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Love, Gender, and Migration
Edited by MARCELO J. BORGES, SONIA CANCIAN, and LINDA REEDER Epilogue by Donna R. Gabaccia Love and the human side of migration “This is a fascinating collection, giving us access to the emotional experience of groups we have not yet seen from this angle and amplifying our understanding of a key emotion as well.” —PETER STEARNS, author of Shame: A Brief History Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies. Looking at sources ranging from letters of Portuguese immigrants in the 1880s to tweets passed among immigrant families in today’s Italy, the essays explore the sentimental, sexual, and political meanings of love. The authors also look at how immigrants and those around them use love to justify separation and loss, and how love influences us to privilege certain immigrants—wives, children, lovers, refugees—over others.
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Affecting and perceptive, Emotional Landscapes moves from war and transnational families to gender and citizenship to explore the crossroads of migration and the history of emotion.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05237-8 A volume in the series Studies of World Migrations, edited by Madeline Hsu and Marcelo J. Borges
Contributors: María Bjerg, Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, Tyler Carrington, Margarita Dounia, Alexander Freund, Donna R. Gabaccia, A. James Hammerton, Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Emily Pope-Obeda, Linda Reeder, Roberta Ricucci, Suzanne M. Sinke, and Elizabeth Zanoni
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MARCELO J. BORGES is a professor of history at Dickinson College. He is the author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective. SONIA CANCIAN is an independent scholar affiliated with McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal. She is the author of Families, Lovers, and Their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada. LINDA REEDER is an associate professor of history and chair of women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Italian Women, Sicily, 1880–1920.
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ETHNIC DISSENT AND EMPOWERMENT
Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia
ANGIE NG Ọ C TR ẦN The lives of migrant workers from Vietnam and the systems that use them “Focusing on Vietnam’s labor export policy to Malaysia, Angie Trần shows us why gender and ethnic hierarchies matter in remaking the politics of control and dissent. Essential reading for all those interested in South-South labor brokerage and temporary migration.” —BRENDA S. A. YEOH, coeditor of Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Chăm ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working in Malaysia, Trần looks at how they carve out a third space that allows them a socially accepted means of resistance to survive and even thrive at times. She also shows how the Vietnamese state uses Malaysia as a place to send poor workers, especially from ethnic minorities; how it manipulates its rural poor into accepting work in Malaysia; and the ways in which both countries benefit from the arrangement.
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A rare study of labor migration in the Global South, Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment answers essential questions about why nations send and use migrant workers and how the workers protect themselves not only within the system, but by circumventing it altogether.
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ANGIE NG Ọ C TR ẦN is a professor of political economy at California State University, Monterey Bay. She is the author of Ties That Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law in Vietnam’s Labor Resistance.
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WORKERS AGAINST THE CITY
The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO
DONALD W. ROGERS Labor organizing, machine politics, and a turning point in constitutional law “Skillfully blending the histories of American civil liberties, organized labor, and urban politics, Rogers shows us how a complex set of forces has shaped and limited the rights of modern Americans to assemble and speak their minds in public.” —JAMES J. CONNOLLY, author of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America The 1939 Supreme Court decision Hague v. CIO was a constitutional milestone that strengthened the right of Americans, including labor organizers, to assemble and speak in public places. Donald W. Rogers eschews the prevailing view of the case as a morality play pitting Jersey City, New Jersey, political boss Frank Hague against the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allied civil libertarian groups. Instead, he draws on a wide range of archives and evidence to re-evaluate Hague v. CIO from the ground up. Rogers’s review of the case from district court to the Supreme Court illuminates the trial proceedings and provides perspectives from both sides. As he shows, the economic, political, and legal restructuring of the 1930s refined constitutional rights as much as the court case did. The final decision also revealed that assembly and speech rights change according to how judges and lawmakers act within the circumstances of a given moment.
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Clear-eyed and comprehensive, Workers against the City revises the view of a milestone case that continues to impact Americans’ constitutional rights today. DONALD W. ROGERS is a lecturer in the Department of History at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880–1940 and editor of Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy: Essays on the History of Voting and Voting Rights in America.
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Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era
RONALD W. SCHATZ Members of the National War Labor Board and the world they made “A learned, engaging, and important book on a subject about which most labor historians today, I suspect, know relatively little. Ron Schatz demonstrates convincingly, through clear and absorbing case studies, that the officials responsible for operationalizing a labor-relations system in these years also brought their worldviews, desires for stability, and passions to many other arenas ranging from higher education to baseball to Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War.” —ERIC ARNESEN, author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality
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Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War. The crew (including Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Jean McKelvey, and Marvin Miller) exerted broad influence on the U.S. economy and society for the next forty years. They handled thousands of grievances and strikes. They founded academic industrial relations programs. When the 1960s student movement erupted, universities appointed them as top administrators charged with quelling the conflicts. In the 1970s, they developed systems that advanced public sector unionization and revolutionized employment conditions in Major League Baseball.
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Schatz argues that the Labor Board vets, who saw themselves as disinterested technocrats, were in truth utopian reformers aiming to transform the world. Beginning in the 1970s stagflation era, they faced unforeseen opposition, and the cooperative relationships they had fostered withered. Yet their protégé George Shultz used mediation techniques learned from his mentors to assist in the integration of Southern public schools, institute affirmative action in industry, and conduct Cold War negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev.
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RONALD W. SCHATZ is a professor of history at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923–60.
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Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism
BETSY WOOD The North-South divide over child labor, 1850–1939 “Betsy Wood manages to say highly original things about an old subject—the movement to abolish child labor. Was the labor of children a new form of slavery or an embodiment of the free labor ideal sanctified by the Civil War? Wood shows how, despite (white) sectional reconciliation, a deep divide between reform-minded northerners and rural southerners over child labor, and the power of the government to abolish it, persisted well into the twentieth century. At a time when millions of children are at work throughout the world, the book is extraordinarily timely.” —ERIC FONER Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.
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Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-theground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.
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UNION RENEGADES
Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age
DANA M. CALDEMEYER The self-interest behind joining, or not joining, a union “With brilliant, incisive empathy, Caldemeyer reconstructs the complex pragmatism of Midwestern coal-mining families as they navigated Gilded Age capitalism, often outside and against organized labor. This original, persuasive study is essential for anyone trying to understand the rural- industrial working class.” —JAROD ROLL, author of Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age.
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Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age. DANA M. CALDEMEYER is an assistant professor of history at South Georgia State College.
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LUCRETIA MOTT SPEAKS
The Essential Speeches and Sermons
LUCRETIA MOTT Edited by Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt, and Beverly Wilson Palmer An invaluable collection of the iconic reformer’s words and works “This book lays excellent groundwork for much-needed scholarship. . . . General readers will be pleasantly surprised to find a lively, spirited, radical, complex woman who defies common stereotypes.” —QUAKER STUDIES Best known as one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) engaged in the broad sisterhood of reforms over six decades. Drawing on widely scattered archives and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks collects the essential speeches and remarks from Mott’s remarkable career as one of the great activists in American history. The selections represent important themes and events in her public life, including her prominent role in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, and illuminate her passionate belief that her many causes were intertwined. Helpful annotations provide vibrant context and show Mott’s engagement with allies, critics, and opponents. The result is an authoritative resource, one that enriches our understanding of Mott’s views and still-powerful influence on American society.
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CHRISTOPHER DENSMORE was the curator of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College and is the author of Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator. CAROL FAULKNER is a professor of history at Syracuse University and the author of Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. NANCY HEWITT is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds. BEVERLY WILSON PALMER is a research associate at Pomona College and the editor or coeditor of numerous documentary editions, including Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott.
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HERNDON’S INFORMANTS Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln
Edited by DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS With the assistance of Terry Wilson The indispensable collection of sources on Lincoln’s early life “[Wilson and Davis] have done a service of inestimable value to historians by the complete, accurately transcribed, indexed, and annotated edition of the written accounts of Herndon’s interviews with 264 people. . . . It is a monumental achievement of scholarship. That is true not simply because of the editorial skill and effort required to complete it, but mainly because this material is the basis for most of what we know about the first half of Lincoln’s life.” —JAMES M. MCPHERSON, New York Review of Books 864 PAGES, 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES
Women to whom Lincoln proposed marriage, political allies and adversaries, judges and fellow attorneys, longtime comrades, erstwhile friends—all speak out here in words first gathered by William H. Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner, between 1865 and 1890. Historian David Herbert Donald has called Herndon’s materials “the basic source for Abraham Lincoln’s early years.”
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Winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
Now available in paperback, Herndon’s Informants collects and annotates more than 600 letters and interviews providing information about Abraham Lincoln’s prepolitical and prelegal careers. Some of the people Herndon questioned were illiterate. Others could read but barely write. The editors’ undertaking took them to three major collections for the mammoth task of transcribing aged documents that often were barely legible. A priceless resource for scholars and anyone curious about Lincoln and his times, Herndon’s Informants includes an introduction, scholarly annotations, a registry of the informants, and a detailed topical index. DOUGLAS L. WILSON is the director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. RODNEY O. DAVIS (d. 2019) was co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. They are the coeditors of Lincoln’s Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Herndon’s Lincoln, and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. TERRY WILSON is an assistant in Reference and Special Collections, Knox College Library.
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MAKING AN ANTISLAVERY NATION
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
GRAHAM A. PECK The politics and political battles spawned by slavery “Sure to interest anyone looking for a fine-grained account of pre–Civil War politics.” —PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Graham A. Peck meticulously traces the conflict over slavery in Illinois from the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to Lincoln’s defeat of his archrival Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 election. Douglas’s attempt in 1854 to persuade Northerners that slavery and freedom had equal national standing stirred a political earthquake that brought Lincoln to the White House. Yet Lincoln’s framing of the antislavery movement as a conservative return to the country’s founding principles masked what was in fact a radical and unprecedented antislavery nationalism that justified slavery’s destruction but triggered the Civil War.
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Presenting pathbreaking interpretations of Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War’s origins, Making an Antislavery Nation reveals how battles over slavery paved the way for freedom’s triumph in America.
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GRAHAM A. PECK is the Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the writer, director, and producer of the award-winning documentary Stephen A. Douglas and the Fate of American Democracy. His film, podcasts, and publications are available at civilwarprof.com.
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BLACK FLAG BORICUAS
Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897–1921
KIRWIN R. SHAFFER Transnational networks of radicalism in the Caribbean “An important contribution to the historiography of labor, radicalism, and political culture in Puerto Rico, with important implications for our understanding of the broader history of radicalism in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and within Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas.” —JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ETHNIC HISTORY This pathbreaking study examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish rule into the 1920s. Positioning the island as part of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa and New York City, Kirwin R. Shaffer illustrates how Caribbean anarchists linked their struggle to international campaigns against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. These groups spearheaded the development of an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man’s-land. Shaffer follows the anarchist alliance with the Federación Libre de Trabajadores, the largest labor organization in Puerto Rico, and tells the story of the Bayamón Bloc, the most successful Puerto Rican anarchist organization until the United States government unraveled it during the Red Scare.
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KIRWIN R. SHAFFER is a professor of Latin American studies at Penn State University Berks College. He is the author of Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century and Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion.
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AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT
Past, Present, and Future
FRANK STRICKER Lies your economists told you—and the truths that can change the nation “Frank Stricker has done the nation an important service, wisely analyzing the history of unemployment, and our attempts to redress this problem. By exposing our failures as well as our successes, he provides a badly needed template for action.” —ROBERT SLAYTON, author of Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith The history of unemployment and concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. Frank Stricker believes we need to understand this essential thread in our shared past. American Unemployment is an introduction for everyone that takes aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths to set the record straight:
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• Workers do not normally choose to be unemployed.
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• In our current system, persistent unemployment is not an aberration. It is much more common than full employment, and the outcome of elite policy choices.
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• Labor surpluses propped up by flawed unemployment numbers have helped to keep real wages stagnant for more than forty years.
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• Prior to the New Deal and the era of big government, laissez-faire policies repeatedly led to depressions with heavy, even catastrophic, job losses.
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• Undercounting the unemployed sabotages the creation of government job programs that can lead to more high-paying jobs and full employment. Written for non-economists, American Unemployment is a history and primer on vital economic topics that also provides a roadmap to better jobs and economic security. FRANK STRICKER is a professor emeritus of history, interdisciplinary studies, and labor studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is the author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty—and How to Win It.
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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.” —DEAN MacCANNELL, author of The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class 392 PAGES 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 23 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 42 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 8 CHARTS, 3 TABLES
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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PROPHETIC AUTHORITY
Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood
MICHAEL HUBBARD MACKAY A prophet’s voice in early Mormonism “In Prophetic Authority, MacKay gives us the most thorough and painstaking description of the slow blossoming of the Mormon priesthood hierarchy available, embedding the story in the raucous context of antebellum American democracy. Valuable for anyone who wants to understand either of those worlds better.” —MATTHEW BOWMAN, author of Christian: The Politics of a Word in America The Mormon tradition’s emphasis on prophetic authority makes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unique within America’s religious culture. The religion that Joseph Smith created established a kingdom of God in a land distrustful of monarchy while positioning Smith as Christ’s voice on earth, with the power to form cities, establish economies, and arrange governments.
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Michael Hubbard MacKay traces the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ claim to religious authority and sets it within the context of its times. Delving into the evolution of the concept of prophetic authority, MacKay shows how the Church emerged as a hierarchical democracy with power diffused among leaders Smith chose. At the same time, Smith’s settled place atop the hierarchy granted him an authority that spared early Mormonism the internal conflict that doomed other religious movements. Though Smith faced challenges from other leaders, the nascent Church repeatedly turned to him to decide civic plans and define the order of both the cosmos and the priesthood.
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MICHAEL HUBBARD MACKAY is an associate professor at Brigham Young University and a former historian for the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He is the author of Sacred Space: Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism and coauthor of Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones.
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CHICAGO CATÓLICO
Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
DEBORAH E. KANTER How churches transformed Mexican communities and an American city “Chicago Católico is the first book of its kind, a superb history of Mexican parish life in a city of diverse Catholic immigrants. Kanter relates a fascinating tale of faith, identity, and the transformation of a city’s largest religious institution.” —TIMOTHY MATOVINA, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer Spanish-language mass to congregants. How did the city’s Mexican population, contained in just two parishes prior to 1960, come to reshape dozens of parishes and neighborhoods? Deborah E. Kanter tells the story of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago’s Mexican American communities. She unveils a vibrant history of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant relations as remembered by laity and clergy, schoolchildren and their female religious teachers, parish athletes and coaches, European American neighbors, and by the immigrant women who organized as guadalupanas and their husbands who took part in the Holy Name Society. Kanter shows how the newly arrived mixed memories of home into learning the ways of Chicago to create new identities. In an ever-evolving city, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans’ fierce devotion to their churches transformed neighborhoods such as Pilsen.
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The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, Chicago Católico illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present- day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.
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DEBORAH E. KANTER is John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College. She is the author of Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850.
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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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GRAPHIC NEWS
How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism
AMANDA FRISKEN Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era “A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications’ reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era’s gender, race, and class relations.” —JOSHUA BROWN, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups.
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Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events— obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence—changed the public’s consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy allowed newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.
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AMANDA FRISKEN is a professor of American Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America.
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FIGHTING FASCIST SPAIN
Worker Protest from the Printing Press
MONTSE FEU Publishing a vision of freedom and democracy “A detailed and comprehensive history of [a] network of artists, intellectuals, and common folk who worked together for some four decades to combat fascism in Franco’s Spain. . . . Feu has successfully brought to light an important chapter in the making of the US Latino community and its transnational impact. Taking the combative periodical España Libre as the axis around which community organizations in New York coalesced and found common cause, Feu identifies all of the major actors and their ideologies.” —NICOLÁS KANELLOS, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created the publication España Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and politics. España Libre proved both visionary and durable, charting an alternate path toward a modern Spain and enduring until democracy’s return to the country in 1977.
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Montse Feu merges España Libre’s story with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community’s fight against fascism. The periodical emerged as part of a transnational effort to link migrants and new exiles living in the United States to antifascist networks abroad. In addition to showing how workers’ culture and politics shaped their antifascism, Feu brings to light creative works that ranged from literature to satire to cartoons to theater. As España Libre opened up radical practices, it encouraged allies to reject violence in favor of social revolution’s potential for joy and inclusion.
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MONTSE FEU is an associate professor of Hispanic studies and co-advisor of graduate studies for the Spanish program at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Jesús González Malo: Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado (1943–1965).
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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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MONEY, MARRIAGE, AND MADNESS
The Life of Anna Ott
KIM E. NIELSEN A female physician battling oppression and the law in the nineteenth-century Midwest “The book brilliantly renders the complex life of Dr. Anna Ott. Nielsen brings impassioned analysis to the ways that ableism, patriarchy, violence, and money shaped the life of one reputedly mad woman. Under Nielsen’s penetrating eye, Ott’s story illuminates the messy historical forces that shaped nineteenth-century women’s encounters with money, marriage, and madness.” —SUSAN CAHN, author of Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women’s Sport, Second Edition 168 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES 6 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 TABLES
Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician’s wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life.
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Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional, revealing a woman whose whiteness and privileged place in society still failed to protect her. Historical and institutional structures, like laws that liberalized divorce and women’s ability to control their property, opened up uncommon possibilities for Ott. Other structures, from domestic violence in the home to rampant sexism and ableism outside of it, remained a part of even affluent women’s lives. Money, Marriage, and Madness tells a forgotten story of how the legal and medical cultures shaped one woman—and what her life tells us about power and society in nineteenth century America.
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KIM E. NIELSEN is a professor and director of the disability studies program at the University of Toledo. Her books include A Disability History of the United States and Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller.
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DISABILITY RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN EDUCATION
The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills Schools District
BRUCE J. DIERENFIELD and DAVID A. GERBER A clash between disability rights and church-state separation “By delving into one family’s pursuit of disability rights, Dierenfield and Gerber offer a provocative and accessible examination of a broad set of issues related to disability rights. A valuable resource for scholars and the classroom.” —ALLISON C. CAREY, author of On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
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In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school.
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Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests’ story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family’s effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-state issues and legal controversies that informed the case, its journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the impact of the high court’s ruling on the course of disability accommodation and religious liberty.
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BRUCE J. DIERENFIELD is a professor of history and director of the all-college honors program at Canisius College. His books include the The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America. DAVID A. GERBER is a University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the University at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies. He is the author of Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century and editor of Disabled Veterans in History.
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WORKERS IN HARD TIMES
A Long View of Economic Crises Edited by LEON FINK, JOSEPH A. McCARTIN, and JOAN SANGSTER Historical perspectives on workers, capitalism, and the Great Recession “This is the rare edited collection that makes readers wish they were at the original conference at which the papers first appeared. . . . Present there and in this volume are some of the biggest names in labor and industrial history.” —JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY This award-winning volume of essays connects the Great Recession of 2007–2009 to economic crises that took place in various industrialized nations across the globe. The authors find parallels and cause-and-effect possibilities that push readers to rethink the relationship between capital and labor, the waged and unwaged, and the employed and jobless. They also predict an uncertain future for workers, and although the essays do not offer concrete solutions, the essayists provide an understanding of the causes of recession that will aid in the pursuit of effective remedies during future crises.
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Contributors: Sven Beckert, Sean Cadigan, Leon Fink, Alvin Finkel, Wendy Goldman, Gaetan Heroux, Joseph A. McCartin, David Montgomery, Edward Montgomery, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Melanie Nolan, Bryan D. Palmer, Joan Sangster, Judith Stein, Hilary Wainright, and Lu Zhang LEON FINK is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to 2000. JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN is a professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. JOAN SANGSTER is a professor of gender and women’s studies at Trent University and the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada.
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OWEN LOVEJOY AND THE COALITION FOR EQUALITY
Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE An Illinois activist and his abolitionist alliance “The Moores have now given us the most thorough biography of Lovejoy to date. Grounded in deep research and an unparalleled familiarity with the ins and outs of Illinois politics, the Moores demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in the creation of the ‘coalition for equality’ that eventually brought slavery down.” —JAMES OAKES, author of The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
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Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to strong political and religious values. Owen Lovejoy’s gregarious personality, formidable oratorical talent, probing political analysis, and profound religious convictions made him the powerful leader the coalition needed.
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Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality examines how these three distinct groups merged their agendas into a single antislavery religious and political campaign for equality, with Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end slavery.
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JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE are codirectors of the Lovejoy Society. They are the authors of Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy and the editors of Owen Lovejoy’s His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64. They manage the website www.increaserespect.com, which applies the concepts of this book.
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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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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.” —MICHELLE R. SCOTT, author of Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South 266 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 18 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 CHARTS, 12 TABLES
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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SOPHONISBA BRECKINRIDGE
Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America
ANYA JABOUR The accomplished life and tireless work of a feminist educator and reformer “A compelling biography that resurrects the life and times of this noteworthy feminist.” —BOOKLIST
“In propulsive prose, Anya Jabour brings to life progressive feminist Sophonisba Breckinridge, whose forty-year career as an advocate for social justice provides a model of ‘passionate patience’ for progressives in the twenty-first century.” —ROBYN MUNCY, author of Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America
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Sophonisba Breckinridge’s remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women’s activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today.
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Anya Jabour’s biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure. After earning advanced degrees in politics, economics, and law, Breckinridge established the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, which became a feminist think tank that promoted public welfare policy and propelled women into leadership positions. In 1935, Breckinridge’s unremitting efforts to provide government aid to the dispossessed culminated in her appointment as an advisor on programs for the new Social Security Act. A longtime activist in international movements for peace and justice, Breckinridge also influenced the formation of the United Nations and advanced the idea that “women’s rights are human rights.” Her lifelong commitment to social justice created a lasting legacy for generations of progressive activists.
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ANYA JABOUR is Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana. Her books include Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children.
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HERNDON ON LINCOLN
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WILLIAM H. HERNDON, edited by DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS The paperback edition of important primary source materials on Abraham Lincoln “A major scholarly achievement that will be of great value to Lincoln biographers and scholars.” —JAMES M. MCPHERSON, author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865 After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, William Herndon, his former law partner, began exhaustive research on what would become his influential biography of the late president. As Herndon’s biographer David Donald said, “To understand Herndon’s own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters.”
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Herndon carried on an extensive correspondence with people who wanted to know more about the late president. In Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis collect the fruits of those exchanges. This invaluable resource offers unique insights into Lincoln’s life and career from someone close to him during Lincoln’s time as a lawyer, Republican Party founder, and candidate for office, all rendered in Herndon’s own authoritative and distinctive voice. A trove of primary source material, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and scholars of a towering American figure and his times.
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WILLIAM H. HERNDON (1818–1891) was Abraham Lincoln’s law partner from 1844 until Lincoln became president in 1861. DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS are co-directors of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and the co-editors of Herndon’s Informants, Herndon’s Lincoln, and The Lincoln-D ouglas Debates.
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DEFINING GIRLHOOD IN INDIA
A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws
ASHWINI TAMBE Tracking the moving line that separates girlhood from womanhood ”A fascinating book on the politics of girlhood in India within the contexts of a global morality discourse, national interests, and international law. Tambe makes an exceptional contribution to girlhood studies.” —SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, author of Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum.
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Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe’s transnational feminist approach to legal history shows how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, the well-meaning focus on child marriage became tethered less to the well-being of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, population control targets, and the preservation of national reputation.
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ASHWINI TAMBE is an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Maryland College Park, where she is also affiliate faculty in history and Asian American studies. She is the author of Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay and editorial director of Feminist Studies.
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RACED TO DEATH IN 1920S HAWAI‘I
Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case
JONATHAN Y. OKAMURA An infamous murder case and racism in 1920s Hawai‘i “Okamura’s work opens the door for further reflection on how this history fits into larger patterns of U.S. race relations.” —NICHI BEI WEEKLY
“The color line in the United States has historically been and continues to be White vs. Black, yet the salient strength of Raced to Death is to make evident that the color line is, more accurately, White vs. Non-White.” —KAREN L. ISHIZUKA, author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
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On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. Fukunaga, a nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American, confessed to the crime. Within three weeks, authorities had convicted him and sentenced him to hang, despite questions about Fukunaga’s sanity and a deeply flawed defense by his court-appointed attorneys.
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Jonathan Y. Okamura argues that officials “raced” Fukunaga to death—first viewing the accused only as Japanese, despite the law supposedly being colorblind, and then hurrying to satisfy the Haole (white) community’s demand for revenge. Okamura sets the case against an analysis of the racial hierarchy that undergirded Hawai’ian society, which was dominated by Haoles who saw themselves most threatened by the islands’ sizable Japanese American community. The Fukunaga case and others like it in the 1920s reinforced Haole supremacy and maintained the racial boundary that separated Haoles from non-Haoles, particularly through racial injustice. As Okamura challenges the representation of Hawai‘i as a racial paradise, he reveals the ways Haoles usurped the criminal justice system and reevaluates the tense history of anti-Japanese racism in Hawai‘i.
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OVER HERE, OVER THERE
Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I
Edited by WILLIAM BROOKS, CHRISTINA BASHFORD, and GAYLE MAGEE Enlisting music to fight the war to end all wars “With its stimulating blend of revealing music interpretation and compelling historical context, this volume brings the music of World War I to life in fascinating detail.” —CHRISTINA BAADE, author of Victory through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II During the Great War, composers and performers created music that expressed common sentiments like patriotism, grief, and anxiety. Yet music also revealed the complexities of the partnership between France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. Sometimes, music reaffirmed a commitment to the shared wartime mission. At other times, it reflected conflicting views about the war from one nation to another or within a single nation.
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Over Here, Over There examines how composition, performance, publication, recording, censorship, and policy shaped the Atlantic allies’ musical response to the war. The first section of the collection offers studies of individuals. The second concentrates on communities, whether local, transnational, or on the spectrum in between. Essay topics range from the sinking of the Lusitania through transformations of the entertainment industry to the influenza pandemic.
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Contributors: Christina Bashford, William Brooks, Deniz Ertan, Barbara L. Kelly, Kendra Preston Leonard, Gayle Magee, Jeffrey Magee, Michelle Meinhart, Brian C. Thompson, and Patrick Warfield
Publication of this book was supported in part by the Otto Kinkeldey Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
WILLIAM BROOKS is a professor of music at the University of York and an associate professor emeritus of composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CHRISTINA BASHFORD is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the author of The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London. GAYLE MAGEE is a professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the author of Charles Ives Reconsidered.
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THE CASHAWAY PSALMODY Transatlantic Religion and Music in Colonial Carolina
STEPHEN A. MARINI Reviving spirit and music from the pages of a once-lost text “Offering a microhistory of meticulous precision, Marini forges through it a study of broad interdisciplinary scope, a rare synthesizing perspective on the musical, religious, commercial, and educational cultures of the eighteenth-century colonies. I know of no one else in the field who could have pulled off this feat the way Marini has— an exceptional combination of indefatigable archival research with practiced musical expertise.” —LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality Singing master Durham Hills created The Cashaway Psalmody to give as a wedding present in 1770. A collection of tenor melody parts for 152 tunes and sixty-three texts, the Psalmody is the only surviving tunebook from the colonial-era South and one of the oldest sacred music manuscripts from the Carolinas. It is all the more remarkable for its sophistication: no similar document of the period matches Hills’s level of musical expertise, reportorial reach, and calligraphic skill.
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Stephen A. Marini, discoverer of The Cashaway Psalmody, offers the fascinating story of the tunebook and its many meanings. From its musical, literary, and religious origins in England, he moves on to the life of Durham Hills; how Carolina communities used the book; and the Psalmody’s significance in understanding how ritual song—transmitted via transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing—shaped the era’s development. Marini also uses close musical and textual analyses to provide a critical study that offers music historians and musicologists valuable insights on the Psalmody and its period.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05170-8 A volume in the series Music in American Life Publication of this book was supported by the Lloyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Meticulous in presentation and interdisciplinary in scope, The Cashaway Psalmody unlocks an important source for understanding life in the Lower South in the eighteenth century.
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STEPHEN A. MARINI is the Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies and a professor of American religion and ethics at Wellesley College. He is the author of Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture and contributing editor for sacred music for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, and singing-master of Norumbega Harmony, a choral ensemble specializing in eighteenth-century AngloAmerican psalmody.
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WRITING REVOLUTION
Hispanic Anarchism in the United States
Edited by CHRISTOPHER J. CASTAÑEDA and MONTSE FEU Spanish-language print culture and the anarchist quest for a new world “High-quality and worth reading.” —ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW
“Essential reading for anyone interested in either anarchism or Hispanic labor and radicalism.” —KENYON ZIMMER, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in the United States In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to Barcelona.
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Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu edit a collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language anarchist history. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the essays investigate anarchist print culture’s transatlantic origins; Latina/o labor-oriented anarchism in the United States; the anarchist print presence in locales like Mexico’s borderlands and Steubenville, Ohio; the history of essential publications and the individuals behind them; and the circulation of anarchist writing from the Spanish-American War to the twenty-first century.
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Contributors: Jon Bekken, Christopher Castañeda, Jesse Cohn, Sergio Sánchez Collantes, María José Domínguez, Antonio Herrería Fernández, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernández, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario Martín Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer, Alejandro de la Torre, and David Watson CHRISTOPHER J. CASTAÑEDA is a professor in the Department of History at California State University, Sacramento. His books include River City and Valley Life: An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region. MONTSE FEU is an assistant professor of Spanish and co-director of graduate studies for the Spanish Program at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press.
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The Historical Performativity of Emotions
Edited by DOLORES MARTÍN-MORUNO and BEATRIZ PICHEL What emotional bodies teach us about past and present societies “This wide-ranging and rigorously historicized collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially welcome.” —JO LABANYI, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions’ performative nature. Drawing on diverse sources and wide-ranging theoretical approaches, they illuminate how various persons and groups—patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds, and humanitarian agencies—perform emotional practices. A section devoted to medical history examines individual bodies while a section on social and political histories studies the emergence of collective bodies.
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Contributors: Jon Arrizabalaga, Rob Boddice, Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Emma Hutchison, Dolores Martín-Moruno, Piroska Nagy, Beatriz Pichel, María Rosón, Pilar León-Sanz, Bertrand Taithe, and Gian Marco Vidor.
A volume in the series History of Emotions, edited by Peter N. Stearns and Susan Matt
DOLORES MARTÍN-MORUNO holds a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship at the Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. Her books include On Resentment: Past and Present. BEATRIZ PICHEL is VC2020 Lecturer in Photographic History at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University.
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