All Stories Are True
History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman
A mapping of the whole Wideman universe from novels to short stories to nonfiction
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
To Tell It Like It Is
The first collection of speeches from one of the movement’s valiant firebrands
Borders of Equality
The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970
A study of the Baltimore NAACP branch and its vanguard efforts including a detailed examination of its longtime president, Lillie M. Jackson
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
The story of a nearly forgotten 1930s New Negro lawyer, whose contemporaries included Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and William Hastie
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People’s Party
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
A study that highlights the central role African American women writers played in creating the lasting impact and image of the movement
Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line
Daisy Bates
Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
A biography of the courageous mentor to the Little Rock Nine
Unexpected Places
Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
An argument for a major remapping of the early African American literary landscape
The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello
A study of the famed actor’s barrier-breaking Shakespearean performances
African American Preachers and Politics
The Careys of Chicago
The story of two African American ministers and their struggle to balance both sacred and secular worlds
The Other World of Richard Wright
Perspectives on His Haiku
The first scholarly consideration of the over eight hundred haiku written late in Wright’s life
Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina
A study of the complexities of intimate relationships among slaves on plantations, in towns, and on small farms
Shadowing Ralph Ellison
A critical study of the writings and thought of the American literary genius and his blues and jazz derived “vernacular” aesthetic
Making a Way out of No Way
African American Women and the Second Great Migration
Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class
African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
A history of how African American churches produced political firebrands in a call for civil rights and justice