Recent and Forthcoming Black-Interest Titles from University Presses.African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond by John O. Perpener III University of Illinois Press The University of Illinois Press (UIP), is a major American university press and part of the University of Illinois. Overview According to the UIP's website: , October 2001, $29.95 ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-252-02675-6 African-American Mayors edited by David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler University of Illinois Press, 2001, $32.50 ISBN 0-252-02634-9 The Artist Portrait Series: Images of Contemporary African American Artists by Fern Logan, Margaret R. Vendryes, Deborah Willis (Introduction) Southern Illinois University Press Southern Illinois University Press (or SIU Press), founded in 1956, is a publisher and part of Southern Illinois University. External link
The Black Female Body: A Photographic History by Deborah Willis and Carla Williams Temple University Press, Fall 2001, $22 ISBN 1-566-39928-9 Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama edited by Keith Clark University of Illinois Press, 2001, $35 ISBN 0-252-02676-4 Freedom's Odyssey: African American History African American history is the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of African slaves held in the United States from 1619 to 1865. Essays from Phylon edited by Alexa Benson Henderson and Janice Sumler-Edmond Clark Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University (CAU) is a prestigious, private institution of higher education in Atlanta, Georgia. It is an historically black university formed in 1988 by the consolidation of Clark College (est. 1869) and Atlanta University (est. 1865). Press, 1999, $37.95 ISBN 0-966-85550-7 The Harvard Guide to African-American History Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. Reference Library edited by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Leon F. Litwack, Darlene Clark Hine, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Randall K. Burkett ISBN 0-674-00276-8 Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment edited by Martin Henry Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, Donald Yacovone University of Massachusetts Press The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts. External link
In Praise of Black Women, Ancient African Queens (Volume 1) by Simone Schwarz-Bart with Andre Schwarz-Bart University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press (or UW Press), founded in 1936, is a university press that is part of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. It published under its own name and the imprint The Popular Press. , March 2001, $60 ISBN 0-299-17250-3 Passing and the Rise of the African-American Novel by M. Giulia Fabi University of Illinois Press, October 2001, $32.50 ISBN 0-252-02667-5 Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement by Sheila Tully Boyle, Andrew Bunie, Andrew Buni Univ. of Massachusetts Press, June 1, 2001, $39.95 ISBN 1-558-49149-X A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity edited by Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine, Indiana University Press Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is a publishing house at Indiana University that engages in academic publishing, specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It was founded in 1950. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. Volume 1, Manhood Rights: The Construction of Black Male History, 1750-1870, 1999, cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95 Volume 2, The 19th Century: From Emancipation to Jim Crow, May 1, 2001 Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-253-33924-3 paper, $29.95 Critical Race Theory Critical race theory is a school of sociological thought and legal studies that emphasizes the socially constructed nature of race, considers judicial conclusions to be the result of the workings of power, and opposes the continuation of racial subordination. : The Cutting Edge, 2nd Edition, edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Temple University Press, December, 1999 paperback, $29.95 ISBN 1-56639-714-6 Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic Temple University Press, 1999 paperback, $29.95 ISBN 1-56639-532-1 Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory edited by by Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp and Angela P. Harris, Temple University Press, fall 2001 paperback, $29.95 ISBN 1-56639-930-0 More than Black: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order by G. Reginald Daniel Temple University Press, January 2002 paperback $29.95 ISBN 1-56639-909-2 Some Classics and Bestsellers How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney Howard University Press Howard University Press is a publisher that is part of Howard University. External link
Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on American Social Reform Movements by Robert Allen with the collaboration of Pamela P. Allen Howard University, February 1983, $15.95 ISBN 0-88258-026-4 Manichean Psychology: Racism and the Minds of People of African Descent by Camara Jules P. Harrell Howard University, April 1999, $26.95 ISBN 0-88258-203-8 Mordecai: The Man and His Message The Story of Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 12 1890 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator. He served as the first black president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960. Johnson was born in Paris, Tennessee, the son of the Reverend Wyatt J. by Richard I. McKinney Howard University Press October 1998, $23.95 ISBN 0-88258-193-7 Dramatic Vision of August Wilson by Sandra Shannon Howard University Press December 1996, $19.95 ISBN 0-88258-070-1 Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture 1942-1981 by Charles T. Davis, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Howard University Press, paperback reprint, December 1989, $21.95 ISBN 0-88258-166-X Black Writers in French: A Literary History of Negritude Negritude Literary movement of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. It began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation. by Lilyan Kestelroot, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy Howard University Press, paperback revised edition, May 1991, $21.95 ISBN 0-88258-066-3 From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers, 1900-1960 by Arthur P. Davis Howard University Press, May 1974, cloth, $33.95, ISBN 0-88258-004-3 paperback, $16.95; ISBN 0-88258-058-2 James Baldwin: A Critical Evaluation edited by Therman B. O'Daniel Howard University Press, September 1981 paperback, $14.95 ISBN 0-88258-091-4 Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation edited by Therman B. O'Daniel Howard University Press, December 1988, cloth, $33.95 ISBN 0-88258-111-2 Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery by James Walvin Howard University reprint edition, June 1994, $21.95 ISBN 0-88258-182-1 Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought by Allison Blakely Howard University Press, April 1989 paperback, $17.95 ISBN 0-88258-175-9 The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes Howard University Press reprint edition, November 1984, $37.95 ISBN 0-88258-152-X Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985) by Martin Bernal Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in Piscataway, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University. The press was founded in 1936, and since that time has grown in size and in the scope of its publishing program. , February 1989, $24 ISBN 0-81351-277-8 Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin Harvard University Press, March 2000, $16.95 ISBN 0-67400-211-3 More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Blacks in the Diaspora) edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine Indiana University Press, April 1996, $19.95 ISBN 0-25321-043-7 |
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