African American Studies 2016

RACE & POLITICS

$30.00 • 256 Pages • CLOTH • 978-1-4798-3588-1

The Race Whisperer

Surviving Poverty

Black Obama and the Political Uses of Race

Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor

MELANYE T. PRICE

JOAN MAYA MAZELIS

“[A] highly critical, yet restrained analysis of [Obama’s] presidency. the Race WhispeReR This book invites readers to think closely about barack obama and the political uses of race how politicians, especially African American politicians, use race in American national politics. More importantly, it serves as guidebook for African American voters and how they might assess the use of race in political rhetoric and discourse.”

—Randal Maurice Jelks, author of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement Melanye T. Price

“A compelling narrative of a remarkable poor people’s movement that builds sustainable ties that are vital to survival while providing an antidote to crippling self-blame. This book is jam-packed with essential insights for anyone—scholars, students, practitioners, advocates—who cares about America’s poor.”

—Kathryn J. Edin, co-author of $2.00 a Day $28.00 • 304 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7008-0

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Pillars of Cloud and Fire The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation HERBERT ROBINSON MARBURY “Marbury brilliantly functions as historical, literary, rhetorical and ideological critic. Most exciting is how he demonstrates the sophisticated exegetical and hermeneutical usages of the biblical text by African Americans over three centuries...[A] must read.”

—Randall C. Bailey, Interdenominational Theological Center

Race and the Politics of Deception The Making of an American City

CHRISTOPHER MELE “A warning to all who think they fully understand the forces that created white suburbs and poor inner cities – you do not, and you need to read this book! ...This book is a fascinating and often disturbing look at how racial inequality shapes urban America.”

—Nancy Denton, co-author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass $27.00 • 208 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8043-0

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“The most comprehensive discussion of the topic to date...White and Fradella offer plausible recommendations for reigning in this contentious police practice that promises public safety, but in some communities, has replaced fear of crime with fear of the police.”

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Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit

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ART & PERFORMANCE Abstractionist Aesthetics

Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER “A riveting polemic on the politics of abstraction in black art...[A] devastating critique of the all-toocommon presumption that variants of realism are the only effective option for a black art that would respond to the history of racial deprivation.”

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Make Art Not War

African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique ROBERT F. REID-PHARR In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. $28.00 • 264 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4362-6 In the Sexual Cultures series

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The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York JUDITH WELLMAN “In this fascinating and groundbreaking book, Judith Wellman opens wide a window on not just one longforgotten community of black New Yorkers, but also more broadly upon the diverse, sometimes surprisingly successful lives of urban African Americans in the nineteenth century...[A] model for historians struggling to wrest the realities of antebellum black life.”

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The CounterRevolution of 1776

Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

Edited by RALPH YOUNG “Combines the aesthetic with the political to show how the arts and culture have informed and protested social injustices and wars. Bruce Springsteen sang ‘I learned more from a three-minute record than I ever learned in school,’ and the same is true of Ralph Young’s smart and incisive essay and the art presented. It’s educational and not heavy, anger-inducing but not shrill.”

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Forging a Laboring Race

The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination PAUL R. D. LAWRIE “[A]n important and imaginative contribution to the history of race and labor in the Progressive Era. It is also a brisk, powerful, and re-orienting critique of the very notion of ‘the black worker’ as a discrete category of experience.”

—Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University $50.00 • 256 Pages • CLOTH • 978-1-4798-5732-6 In the Culture, Labor, History series

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Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century

GERALD HORNE “[C]onvincingly reconstructs the origin myth of the United States grounded in the context of slavery...

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Slavery’s Exiles

The Story of the American Maroons SYLVIANE A. DIOUF

How to Read African American Literature Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation AIDA LEVY-HUSSEN How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Moving beyond the question of whether literature must heal or abandon historical wounds, Levy-Hussen proposes new ways to read African American literature now. $26.00 • 224 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-8471-1

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“In this delightful work, Jared Hardesty places the experiences of Boston slaves within the wider Atlantic world, while also illuminating their lives within the context of eighteenth century New England. Unfreedom is the most significant contribution to slavery studies in New England since...1998.”

—Harvey Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont $40.00 • 272 Pages • CLOTH • 978-1-4798-1614-9 In the Early American Places series

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The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

WALTER EARL FLUKER

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The Sonic Color Line Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

JENNIFER LYNN STOEVER

Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment CAROLYN MOXLEY ROUSE, JOHN L. JACKSON, JR., and MARLA F. FREDERICK If racism is a form of perception, then religious media has not only altered how others perceive blacks, but has also altered how blacks perceive themselves.

Televised Redemption argues that black religious media has provided black Americans with new conceptual and practical tools for how to be in the world, and changed how black people are made intelligible and recognizable as moral citizens. $28.00 • 256 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-1817-4

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Televised Redemption

Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston

RIGHTS & RELIGION

“An exciting contribution to sexuality studies and a much-needed corrective to how we think about BDSM. With beautiful and sharp analysis, Ariane Cruz draws from a dazzling array of sources to parse out the pleasures of abjection that make BDSM an apt metaphor for thinking through black female sexuality. A wonderful, provocative book.”

—Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensational Flesh

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Christy Clark-Pujara

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Unfreedom

“Clark-Pujara reconstructs the lives and livelihoods of black Rhode Islanders, for whom the violence of enslavement, the prospects of emancipation, and the limits of freedom unfolded in accordance with the demands for food in the Caribbean, for slaves in the Carolinas, and for clothing in Louisiana.”

—Seth Rockman, Brown University

Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography

Through analysis of the historical traces of sounds of African American performers, Stoever reveals a host of racialized aural representations operating at the level of the unseen— the sonic color line—and exposes the racialized listening practices she figures as “the listening ear.” The Sonic Color Line sounds out how Americans have created, heard, and resisted “race,” so that we may hear our contemporary world differently.

Dark Work

The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

The Color of Kink

“With impressive research and vivid prose, Diouf directs our attention to maroons within the United States. From the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia to the frontier regions of Louisiana, she shows, fugitive slaves managed to survive without fleeing to the North. An important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance.”

—Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial

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LITERARY STUDIES Archives of Flesh

Brooklyn’s Promised Land

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Mississippi Praying

Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 CAROLYN RENÉE DUPONT “A wealth of insight... the single best study documenting and analyzing the conflicted role of white southern Protestant churches, and their leaders, in reacting to the civil rights struggle. Her analysis is compelling, her writing forceful and fluid, and her research substantial and original.”

—Paul Harvey, University of Colorado $27.00 • 303 Pages • PAPER • 978-1-4798-2351-2

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New World A-Coming Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration JUDITH WEISENFELD “This book definitively establishes the plurality of black religious experience and the definitive role religions had in the formation of twentiethcentury racial identity...

Weisenfeld offers an exemplary study of religion as a form of social and cultural criticism. There is no historian working with greater precision in the study of religion in America today.”

—Kathryn Lofton, Yale University $35.00 • 368 Pages • CLOTH • 978-1-4798-8880-1