African American Studies

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African American Studies

The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass

Literary and Cultural Studies

Interracial Encounters

In Pursuit of American Liberty

Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937

Nicholas Buccola “Well-conceived, wellresearched, and well-argued.”

Julia H. Lee “A striking and original study.”

— Peter C. Myers, author of Frederick Douglass

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Architecture, Race, and American Literature

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The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back Youth, Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics

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Political Science Forthcoming in May

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“At This Defining Moment” Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

Enid Lynette Logan “A provocative assessment of a starkly dramatic moment of U.S. history.” — Joe Feagin, author of Racist America 229 pages $23.00 • Paper • 978-0-8147-5298-2 $75.00 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-5297-5

Integrating Emerging Frameworks, Second Edition

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The Wrong Complexion for Protection How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities

Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright “Fascinating.” — Timmons Roberts, co-author of A Climate of Injustice 216 pages $35.00 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-9993-2

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African AMerican Studies History

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They Left Great Marks on Me African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

Kidada E. Williams “Impressive and important.” — William D. Carrigan, Rowan University 288 pages $25.00 • Paper • 978-0-8147-9536-1 $75.00 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-9535-4

Freedom’s Gardener James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America

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Negro Comrades of the Crown African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

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Black in Latin America Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Accessible, witty, insightful, and informative.” — Ben Vinson III, Johns Hopkins University 270 pages • 50 illustrations $26.95 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-3298-4

Colonization and Its Discontents Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania

Beverly C. Tomek — Orville Vernon Burton, author of Age of Lincoln

Black Los Angeles

She’s Mad Real

Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

American Dreams and Racial Realities

Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn

Robin Bernstein

Edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon

“A groundbreaking book.”

“A true masterwork of urban studies.”

— Daphne Brooks, Princeton University 318 pages $24.00 • Paper • 978-0-8147-8708-3 $75.00 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-8707-6

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Arrested Justice

A New Political History of African American Literature

Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Gene Andrew Jarrett

Beth E. Richie

“Stunningly redefines altogether what we think of as the field of African American Studies.”

“No one writes with passion like Beth Richie.” — Natalie J. Sokoloff, editor of The Criminal Justice System and Women 240 pages $22.00 • Paper • 978-0-8147-7623-0 $74.00 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-7622-3

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Racial Indigestion

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Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

“The best academic book on hip hop.”

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— Gregory J. Snyder, author of Graffiti Lives

“Dazzlingly original and important.”

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— Glenn Hendler, Fordham University 288 pages $24.00 • Paper • 978-0-8147-7003-0 $74.00 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-7002-3

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Critical Race Theory An Introduction, Second Edition

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic “A marvelously readable overview of this pathbreaking and controversial field.” — Derrick Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well

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Religion

Divine Callings Understanding the Call to Ministry in Black Pentecostalism

“Beautifully written and profoundly sensitive.” — Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago 276 pages $25.00 • Paper • 978-0-8147-6824-2 $80.00 • Cloth • 978-0-8147-6823-5

Afro-Pentecostalism Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture

Edited by Amos Yong and Estrelda Y. Alexander

“A fascinating analysis of Ghanaian immigrants to the United States.”

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