Africana and African American Studies, 2019-2020

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AFRICANA STUDIES SOCIAL SCIENCES Race Otherwise

Racism after Apartheid

Forging a New Humanism for South Africa

Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism

ZIMITRI ERASMUS

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race

Examines post-apartheid racism and relations of oppression, and challenges Marxism and anti-racists

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Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences

Edited by DEBORAH POSEL and ILANA VAN WYK

Case Studies from South Africa

Revisiting Thorstein Veblen’s concept, this volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it relates to the project of African modernity

Edited by SUMAYA LAHER, ANGELO FYNN, & SHERIANNE KRAMER

Demonstrates the variety of research methods available to researchers responding to context-bound issues in the Global South

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Politics and Community-Based Research Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg Edited by SARAH CHARLTON, SOPHIE DIDIER, & KIRSTEN DÖRMANN

“This is a treasure, full of the voices, spaces and lives of residents...”— Jennifer Robinson,

Dress as Social Relations An Interpretation of Bushman Dress VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD

Historical collections show that Bushman dress was an embodied practice of social relations $80.00 • 208 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4191-3

Professor, University College $80.00 • 592 PAGES • CLOTH • 978-1-7761-4384-9

Healing the Exposed Being

Stopping the Spies

A South African Ngoma Tradition

Constructing and Resisting the Surveillance State in South Africa

ROBERT J. THORNTON

JANE DUNCAN

The Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses $30.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4018-3

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Questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state $30.00 • 312 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4215-6

AFRICANA STUDIES PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Being-Black-in-theWorld

The World Looks Like This From Here

N. CHABANI MANGANYI

Thoughts on African Psychology

“[I]nvites intergenerational conversations toward a decolonised world and pays homage to South Africa’s contribution to black radical thought. This text is a mustread.”—Zimitri Erasmus, author of

KOPANO RATELE

“[B]uilds a case for thinking and doing psychology differently in and for Africa.”—Floretta Boonzaier, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town $30.00 • 152 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4390-0

Race Otherwise $30.00 • 300 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4368-9

Thinking Freedom in Africa

The State of Secularism Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa

Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics

DHAMMAMEGHA ANNIE LEATT

Conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’

A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa

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MICHAEL NEOCOSMOS

N AT U R E & E N V I R O N M E N T Dance of the Dung Beetle

Natures of Africa

Their Role in Our Changing World

Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms

MARCUS BYRNE & HELEN LUNN

Edited by F. FIONA MOOLLA

A brilliant and funny tour through mythology, evolution and the day-to-day innovations of scientific research—this is an entomological page-turner!

One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media

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E D U C AT I O N Fees Must Fall Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa

S TAY C O N N E C T E D

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Edited by SUSAN BOOYSEN

Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt $35.00 • 300 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4985-8

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AFRICANA STUDIES AFRICAN HISTORY Sol Plaatje

Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa

Selected Writings Edited by BRIAN WILLAN

Past and Present

This is a fascinating collection from a variety of disparate and often obscure sources, making a comprehensive selection of Plaatje’s writings available to all

Edited by BHEKIZIZWE PETERSON, BRIAN WILLAN, & JANET REMMINGTON

Sheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today

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FORTHCOMING

Troubling Images

Between Worlds

Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism

German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa

Edited by FEDERICO FRESCHI, BRENDA SCHMAHMANN & LIZE VAN ROBBROECK

LINDA CHISHOLM

Scrutinizes the experience, complexities and paradoxes in German mission society education

Explores how art and visual culture helped to secure hegemonic claims to the nationstate via the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary

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Forgotten World

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The Stone-Walled Settlements of the Mpumalanga Escarpment PETER DELIUS, TIM MAGGS, & ALEX SCHOEMAN

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Defies the usual stereotypes about backward African farming methods and shows that these settlements were at their peak between 1500 and 1820 $30.00 • 180 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4040-4

SOCIAL THEORY Remains of the Social

The Unresolved National Question in South Africa

Desiring the Post-Apartheid Edited by MAURITS VAN BEVER DONKER, ROSS TRUSCOTT, PREMESH LALU & GARY MINKLEY

Left Thought Under Apartheid and Beyond Edited by EDWARD WEBSTER & KARIN PAMPALLIS

An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid

This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question

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AFRICANA STUDIES POLITICS Power in Action

Shadow of Liberation

Democracy, Citizenship and Social Justice

Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996

STEVEN FRIEDMAN

Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy because it offers the tools needed to fight for a fairer and more equal society $30.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-302-3

VISHNU PADAYACHEE & ROBERT VAN NIEKERK

“[I]mpressive. Combining fine scholarship with vivid narrative, this is an economist’s detective story.”—Tom Lodge, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick $30.00 • 268 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4395-5

BRICS and the New American Imperialism

Governance and the Postcolony

Global Rivalry and Resistance

Views from Africa

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

Edited by DAVID EVERATT

Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism

“This important collection reinvigorates the conventional, hollowed-out concept of governance by insisting that power, and its accountability, is central to governance.”—Colin

$30.00 • 264 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4528-7

New South African Review 6 The Crisis of Inequality Edited by GILBERT KHADIAGALA, SARAH MOSOETSA, DEVAN PILLAY, & ROGER SOUTHALL

Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy

Bundy, retired first principal of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford $35.00 • 336 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4344-3

Decolonisation in Universities The Politics of Knowledge Edited by JONATHAN D. JANSEN

Combining conceptual analyses and novel case studies, this volume brings together the best minds in curriculum theory to address the question: What exactly is decolonisation? $35.00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-335-1

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Shadow State The Politics of State Capture IVOR CHIPKIN, MARK SWILLING, HAROON BHORAT, MZUKISI QOBO, SIKHULEKILE DUMA, LUMKILE MONDI, CAMAREN PETER, MBONGISENI BUTHELEZI, & HANNAH FRIEDENSTEIN

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society

The Climate Crisis South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

An investigation of emerging eco-socialist alternatives $40.00 • 372 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4054-1

$35.00 • 186 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4212-5

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AFRICANA STUDIES LABOR Organise or Die?

Labour Beyond Cosatu

Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers

Mapping the Rupture in South Africa’s Labour Landscape Edited by ANDRIES BEZUIDENHOUT & MALEHOKO TSHOAEDI

RAPHAËL BOTIVEAU

The story of one of the leading trade unions in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers, and its role in the struggle against white minority rule

Rebellions and conflicts in the trade unions, and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates in South Africa

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M I G R AT I O N I Want to Go Home Forever

Go Home or Die Here

Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis

Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa

Edited by LOREN B. LANDAU & TANYA PAMPALONE

Edited by ERIC WORBY, SHIREEN HASSIM, & TAWANA KUPE

Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg

A volume of solutions by academics, students, a journalist and a bishop to help fix racism and xenophobia

$35.00 • 260 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4221-7

$30.00 • 272 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-8681-4487-7

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR FORTHCOMING

In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa

The Cape Radicals Intellectual and Political Thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s to 1960s

A travelogue in isiXhosa and English DAVIDSON DON TENGO JABAVU Edited by TINA STEINER, MHLOBO JADEZWENI, CATHERINE HIGGS, & EVAN M. MWANGI

Edited by CRAIN SOUDIEN

Highlights the young intellectuals in the Cape who were at the forefront of redefining the debates around power and social difference in a racially divided society $30.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-77614-317-7

“This historical gem enriches our sense of the scope and scale of South African letters.”—Isabel Hofmeyr, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University $30.00 • 216 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4476-1

Writing the Ancestral River A Biography of the Kowie JACKLYN COCK

An illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape $30.00 • 205 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4187-6

Memory Against Forgetting Memoir of a Time in South African Politics 1938-1964 RUSTY BERNSTEIN

This classic text, first published in 1999, is Rusty Bernstein’s remarkable memoir of a life in South African resistance politics $35.00 • 392 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4154-8

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AFRICANA STUDIES A R T, L I T E R AT U R E & C U LT U R E Death and Compassion

Visionary Animal

The Elephant in Southern African Literature

Rock Art from Southern Africa

DAN WYLIE

Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4218-7

RENAUD EGO Translated by DEKE DUSINBERRE

This highly illustrated collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes takes stock of our current knowledge of rock art and proposes a new grid of reading $80.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4226-2

Acts of Transgression

Civilising Grass

Contemporary Live Art in South Africa

The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld

Edited by JAY PATHER & CATHERINE BOULLE

JONATHAN CANE

An illustrated collection of 15 essays by respected researchers that critically probes where live art and socio-political turbulence intersect

“[M]akes a significant contribution to the study of the political relevance of landscapes and their representations.”­

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—Byron Caminero-Santangelo, author of Different Shades of Green $30.00 • 336 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4310-8

Like Family

Lie on Your Wounds

Domestic workers in South African History and Literature

The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

ENA JANSEN

Edited by DEREK HOOK

Interrogates the historical and literary representation of female domestic workers who occupy precarious positions in an unequal society in South Africa

Letters from prominent South African political activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe while he was imprisoned

$35.00 • 416 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-351-1

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist A Memoir N. CHABANI MANGANYI

Manganyi’s life story traces the twists and turns of his journey from humble beginnings in Limpopo, to Yale University $30.00 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-862-2

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Wits University Press is strategically placed at the crossroads of African and global knowledge production and dissemination. We are committed to publishing well-researched innovative books for both academic and general readers. Our areas of focus include art and heritage, popular science, history and politics, biography, literary studies, women’s writing and select textbooks. www . nyupress . org / wits - university - press

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES GENDER & SEXUALITY Fearing the Black Body

Frottage

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora

SABRING STRINGS

“Strings seeks to illuminate how our current fat phobia is rooted, specifically, in a fear of black women. [She] persuasively shows that ... the link between fatness, racial otherness and, especially, female blackness, looms prominently in the American cultural imagination.”—Times Literary Supplement

KEGURO MACHARIA In the Sexual Cultures series

A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic $27.00 • 242 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-6167-5

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Afro-Fabulations

Queer Times, Black Futures

The Queer Drama of Black Life TAVIA NYONG’O In the Sexual Cultures series

KARA KEELING In the Sexual Cultures series

“Nyongo offers not only a compelling new way to think about works that challenge history, narrative, and truth, but also a method in which we might continue that work.”

—Brooklyn Rail

“Masterful—deeply engaging, carefully researched, and creative in its use of allegory to demonstrate the potential and effect of opacity for black futures and possibilities.”

—Herman Gray, UC Santa Cruz $30.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-0-8147-4833-6

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Reproductive Injustice Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth

DANA-AIN DAVIS In the Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice series

A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants

Sensual Excess Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance AMBER JAMILLA MUSSER In the Sexual Cultures series

Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production $27.00 • 272 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-3095-4

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The books in the KEYWORDS series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and debates of a particular field. Keywords are the nodal points in many of today’s most dynamic and vexed discussions. The books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.

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Keywords for African American Studies Edited by ERICA R. EDWARDS,RODERICK A. FERGUSON, & JEFFREY O.G. OGBAR In the Keywords seres $28 .00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-5489-9

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES MEDIA 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine

Postracial Resistence

Algorithms of Oppression

Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

RALINA L. JOSEPH In the Critical Cultural Communication series

SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE

“Noble argues that search engines are easily gamed in ways that reflect discriminatory practices. Even without malevolent actors, search engines may be perpetuating racist stereotypes.”—Chicago

How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the postracial gaze of Hollywood $30.00 • 280 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-8637-1

Tribune

FORTHCOMING

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FORTHCOMING

Distributed Blackness

Beyond Hashtags

African American Cybercultures

Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks

ANDRÉ BROCK, JR. In the Critical Cultural Communication series

SARAH FLORINI In the Critical Cultural Communication series

An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet

How black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarity

$29.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-2996-5

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LITERARY STUDIES The Hollywood Jim Crow

The Dark Fantastic Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry MARYANN ERIGHA

EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS In the Postmillennial Pop series

“Offers a provocative lens for understanding how entrenched the industry’s racial imbalances are...”—The Atlantic

“[A] wakeup call to all who

research, teach, or create young adult speculative fiction.”

—Booklist

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FORTHCOMING

Runaway Genres

Black Writers Matter

The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Edited by WHITNEY FRENCH Foreword by AFUA COOPER

YOGITA GOYAL

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre

An anthology of AfricanCanadian writers that offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES POLITICS Stay Woke

Antiracism

A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

An Introduction ALEX ZAMALIN

TEHAMA LOPEZ BUNYASI & CANDIS WATTS SMITH

“This is by far the best introduction to the profoundly important topic of AntiRacism.”—Gerald Horne, author of Facing the Rising Sun

“This is the essential guide on race, racism, the BLM movement, fighting for racial justice, fighting against racial injustice, and more. I am looking at you, fellow white people! Buy this book and read it. Own it, love it, memorize it, and live it.”—Ms. Magazine

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No Place on the Corner

Hands Up, Don’t Shoot

The Costs of Aggressive Policing

Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America

JAN HALDIPUR

“A sharp portrait of one of the many seriously troubled areas of the American criminal justice system and one without clear solutions.”—Kirkus Reviews $25.00 • 224 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-8800-9

JENNIFER E. COBBINA

“In her tightly focused and morally important book …

Cobbina is careful to establish historical and cultural context for the deep-seated distrust so many African Americans feel toward law enforcement in a way that makes the book accessible to a wide readership.”—NPR Books $25.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-7441-5

Kiling with Prejudice

Jazz and Justice

Institutionalized Racism in American Capital Punishment

Racism and the Political Economy of the Music

R.J. MARATEA

GERALD HORNE

A history of the McCleskey v.

Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation $27.00 • 512 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-5836-7785-8

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality

The New American Servitude

Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence

Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers CATI COE In the Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice series

TRACI C. WEST In the Religion and Social Transformation series

How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States $35.00 • 336 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-3399-3

Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States $32.00 • 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-0883-0

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY The Battle of Negro Fort

Educated for Freedom

The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community

The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys who Grew Up to Change a Nation

MATTHEW J. CLAVIN

ANNA MAE DUANE

“Negro Fort ... served as a source of inspiration to runaways and enslaved people in the states bordering Florida...

A must-read...”

—STARRED Library Journal

“A compelling tale of two boys and their struggle to forge a path for freedom out of a slave nation.”—Kirkus Reviews $30.00 • 240 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-4747-1

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A War Born Family

In Pursuit of Knowledge

African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War

Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

KORI A. GRAVES

KABRIA BAUMGARTNER In the Early American Places series

The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children $45.00 • 328 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-7232-9

Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education $35.00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-2311-6

Fight the Power African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City CLARENCE TAYLOR

“This well-researched, welltold book provides thoughtful context for the current American reckoning with police brutality.”—Publishers Weekly

$35.00 • 336 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-4798-6245-0

Upending the Ivory Tower Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League STEFAN M. BRADLEY

“A definitive account of the experiences of black students at the Ivy League universities from 1945 to 1975. It is a brilliant book... essential reading.”

—Academe

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Presumed Criminal Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York CARL SUDDLER

A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s to today $45.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-4798-4762-4

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N H I S T O R Y C O N T. The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North

Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC

Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South

Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

Edited by BRIAN PURNELL & JEANNE THEOHARIS with KOMOZI WOODARD

PAULA C. AUSTIN

The fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city

Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created

by Northern Jim Crow

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Everyday Crimes

Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom

Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America

History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution

KELLY A. RYAN

The narratives of slaves, wives, and servants who resisted social and domestic violence in the nineteenth century

G.J. BARKER-BENFIELD

“In this meticulous study, Barker-Benfield reanimates an essential transatlantic context for Wheatley’s life and work.”

—CHOICE

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Brown Beauty

Forging a Laboring Race

Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II

The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination

LAILA HAIDARALI

PAUL R.D. LAWRIE In the Culture, Labor, History series

“[W]idens the lens to examine women and the development of a race conscious ideal of ‘brown-skin’ beauty.”

—CHOICE

Charts the history of an idea— race management—building on recent work in African American, labor, and disability history

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Honorable Mention, 2019 Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book | Sole Finalist Mention, 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, American Studies Association

Fugitive Science Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

S TAY C O N N E C T E D

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BRITT RUSERT In the America and the Long 19th Century series

“Antebellum African-Americans, as Britt Rusert has shown, boldly challenged the racist science of their day by drawing on Charles Darwin’s new evidence that all humans share a common ancestor...”—The Guardian $32.00 • 320 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-4798-4766-2

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES RELIGION Honorable Mention, 2017 Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine

Being Muslim

The Ground Has Shifted

A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam

The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

SYLVIA CHAN-MALIK

An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century US Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color

WALTER EARL FLUKER In the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity series

“This powerful and timely book is sophisticated, subtle, and rich.”—Dr. Cornel West

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