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'bitter with the past but sweet with the dream'
An engaging, wide-ranging, and groundbreaking reexamination of the relationship between African American writers and the communist movement in the US.
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1919
Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.
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A brotherhood of liberty
Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryIn A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory o...
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A new working class
An examination of the efforts by Black public-sector workers and their unions to fight for racial and economic justice in BaltimoreFor decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making. As their influ...
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A piece of the action
Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed racial politics in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films, this book...
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African american management history
This second edition serves as a guide for navigating modern business complexities with wisdom, empathy, and a focus on long-term success. An essential read for students, managers, and entrepreneurs, it challenges traditional business paradigms and invites readers to incorporate cooperative strate...
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All our trials
A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles. This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed scholar-activist Sarah Haley and an afterword by Thuma. ...
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American dark age
How a group of Black liberal thinkers challenged the race-based feudalism that reigned in the early American republicThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World. What they saw was a r...
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An ordinary white
A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story of the historian and radical American wr...
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At the vanguard
The first volume in a major new series offering a compelling glimpse into the transformative and revolutionary world of HBCUs, that reveals the complex stories that their collections tell us.This book, featuring objects from the museums and archives at five HBCUs—Jackson State, Tuskegee, Florida ...
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Ballast
A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery. In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on the ship Creole. 135 people escaped chattel s...
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Banking on freedom
Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out ec...
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Baptists in america
Baptists are a study in contrasts. From Little Dove Old Regular Baptist Church, up a hollow in the Appalachian Mountains, with its 25-member congregation, to the 18,000-strong Saddleback Valley Church in Orange County, California, where hymns appear on wide-screen projectors; from Jerry Falwell, ...
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Before the fires
People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World’s Series at Yankee Stadium, “There it is, ladies and ...
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Belonging
Explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slaveryAs winter turned to spring in the year 1699, Sebastian and Jane embarked on a campaign of persuasion. The two wished to marry, and they sought the backing of their community in Boston. Nothing,...
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Between the street and the state
Deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on CrimeBeginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological support to t...
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Black africa and the us art world in the early 20th century
This book explores several critical connections between Black African objects and white Western aesthetics and artwork in the United States from the late 1800s until 1939.
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Black elders
Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her renowned autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, if her grandmother, a free black woman named Molly Horniblow, had not enabled Jacobs’ es...
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Black excellence
A provocative new history of modern black liberalismBlack Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black lib...
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Black intellectuals and black society
This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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Black land
The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held...
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Black liberation and the american dream
Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and antiracism in the US.
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Black toledo
Black Toldeo is a documentary history of the African American experience of resettlement focusing on the particular experience of Toledo, Ohio.
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Black utopia
Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to ...
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Boss of black brooklyn
Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to the United States from the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1915. Three decades later, he was elected to the New...
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Canada and the blackface atlantic
This book traces the rise of Canadian blackface, including the country’s first stages. It outlines the minstrels troupes, jubilee choirs and concert singers who performed to audiences on the same stages, and ultimately argues that the theatre helped to create racial and gender stereotypes while a...
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Class struggle and the color line
A thoughtful collection of original documents highlighting the deep, early roots of Black radicalism in the US from 1900-1930.
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Claude mckay
One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. Winston James offers a revelatory account of McKay’s political and intellectual trajectory from his upbri...
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Colored insane
Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the “colored insane.”
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Democracy and beauty
Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs W. E. B. Du Bois’s defense of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy.
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Denmark vesey's bible
A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina. He was convicted of plotting what might have been the largest insurrection aga...
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Eric walrond
Eric Walrond (1898–1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of...
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Fighting for the higher law
How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slaveryIn Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical s...
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Five hundred african voices
The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their existence in large numbers. This volume catalogs nearly 500 discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages. Short biographies of each Africa...
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Frederick douglass's american founding
The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a “glorious liberty document” that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the r...
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Give me liberty
A signature souvenir volume celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and exploring its impact and legacy in Virginia.This highly illustrated publication marks the origins of a revolutionary new nation, focusing on the years 1775 and 1776, the events that preceded and followed,...
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Haunted by slavery
A stirring memoir by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: historian of slavery, veteran political activist, and widow of Black Bolshevik author Harry Haywood.
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I hear freedom
Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to the broader Black experience.
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I hear my people singing
A vivid, groundbreaking history of the legacies of slavery in an elite Northern town as told by its Black residents I Hear My People Singing shines a light on a small but historic Black neighborhood at the heart of one of the most elite and world-renowned Ivy-League towns—Princeton, New Jersey. T...
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I've been here all the while
Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settl...
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In the matter of nat turner
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, a...
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Irreparable evil
Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.
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Jefferson on race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should readAmong America’s Founding Fathers, none was more deeply, personally, or controversially entangled ...
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Let this radicalize you
Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
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Liberty's prisoners
A look at how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States, reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarcerationLiberty’s Prisoners examines how chang...
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Midden
WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY!FINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD!SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019!In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island,...
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New negro, old left
Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 1930s New York "75% of black cultural figures had Party membership or maintained regular meaningful contact with the Party." He stretched the truth, b...
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