African American History

The Harlem Uprising

Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City Christopher Hayes

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, providing a vivid portrait of postwar New York, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of racial inequality.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18187-7 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18186-0 2021 352 pages We Testify with Our Lives

How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter Terrence L. Johnson

Terrence L. Johnson argues that the Black radical tradition derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. We Testify with Our Lives traces Black religion’s sustained influence from SNCC to the present, reconstructing a radical lived ethics of freedom and justice.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20045-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20044-8 2021 312 pages

COLUMBIA SERIES ON RELIGION AND POLITICS

Antagonistic Cooperation

Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture Robert O'Meally

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18919-4 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18918-7 March 2022 296 pages

LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF LECTURES

Educating Harlem

A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community Edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell

Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic Black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community despite consistent neglect and structural oppression.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18221-8 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18220-1 2019 376 pages 9 illus.