Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Black Abolitionist Papers Volume III The
Book SynopsisThis five-volume documentary collection reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada, the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War
£100.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Black Abolitionist Papers Volume IV The United States 18471858
Book SynopsisThis five-volume documentary collection reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada, the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War
£100.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Christianity Social Justice and the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II
Book SynopsisThis study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. Anne Blankenship shows how church leaders were forced to assess the ethics and pragmatism of fighting against or acquiescing to what they clearly perceived, even in the midst of a national crisis, as an unjust social system.
£24.26
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Experiential Caribbean Creating Knowledge
Book SynopsisOpening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theatres, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century.
£69.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Experiential Caribbean Creating Knowledge
Book SynopsisOpening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theatres, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century.
£999.99
The University of North Carolina Press Soul Food The Surprising Story of an American
Book SynopsisIn this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition. Focusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish - such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, greens, and “red drinks” - Miller uncovers how it got on the soul food plate and what it means for African American culture and identity.Trade Review[A] fascinating look at the cuisine known as soul food and its close cousin, southern cuisine. . . . Photographs and recipes add to the allure of this well-researched look at the past and future of soul food.-Booklist Starred ReviewA wonderful combination of sociological examination of African-American culture and identity, travelogue and cookbook. . . . It's exactly this combination of earnest curiosity and an unwillingness to take his topic too seriously that makes Soul Food such a great read. . . . I highly recommend this book!-Nashville SceneI recommend this book to 'foodies' and to those interested in American history, African American history and preserving good down home soul food cooking.-Tennessee LibrariesMiller's book is a mouth-watering tome that not only titillates the palate, but feeds the brain with science, geography and history.-Denver WestwordInsightful, thoughtful and meticulously researched, Soul Food sets a place for soul food in the American culinary canon. There's no way you won't be craving something sweet and fried and soulful for dinner.-Virginian-PilotCrafts a dynamic and engaging biography of an American cuisine.-Southern HistorianMiller knows all about soul food's allure, both as a way of eating and as cultural totem. . . . [His] book is a labor of love.-Denver PostDeliciously entertaining and rich in its history.-Journal of American CultureMost people don't know soul food the way Miller does. . . . Miller's book studies soul food mainly in terms of its quintessential ingredients or dishes. . . [and] along the way, he dishes up a few surprises.-Winston-Salem JournalThis highly-informative opus . . . is filled with fascinating factoids.-Kam Williams2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award, Reference and ScholarshipMiller took up the challenge of tracing soul food's history and launching its spirited defense after realizing the story had never really been told in a comprehensive way.-Villager NewspaperFocusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish-such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, greens and 'red drinks'-Miller uncovers how it got on the soul food plate and what it means for African-American culture and identity.-The Philadelphia TribuneJust the book to move readers from one end of the line to the other without getting bogged down. . . . Soul Food is ingenious . . . [and] speaks to the enduring mythological power of its staple dishes.-Michael Twitty, American ProspectAn intelligent review that explores the muddy territory 'where southern food ends and soul food begins.' The journey is as informative as it is entertaining.-Austin ChronicleDetailed and sprightly. . . . [Miller] adds in-depth chapters that explore more than a dozen soulful dishes-including catfish, black-eyed peas, mac and cheese, cornbread, and candied yams.-Stanford MagazineAs Miller tells the whole story of soul food from its beginnings to current day and throughout, he is so skillful at finding cultural and historical context, you may find yourself learning about your own food culture.-Culinary Historians of WashingtonBoth thought-provoking and celebratory.-Edible PiedmontAn engaging, tradition-rich look at an often overlooked American cuisine-certainly to be of interest to foodies from all walks of life.-Kirkus starred review[A] comprehensive and entertaining history of soul food. . . . A lively and thorough account for fans of food literature and of African American history. Recipes included. Highly recommended.-Library Journal[Miller] doesn't do anything halfway.-5280Examines the roots of a distinctly American tradition.-StarNewsOnline.comMiller moves way past common notions about soul food to offer a fascinating look at the cuisine and its close cousin, southern cooking.-Booklist Top 10 Food Books of 2013[A] lively, innovative, and carefully researched study of traditional African American food habits.-North Carolina Historical ReviewMiller makes many surprising points and teaches us a great deal about our Southern foodways' relationship to soul food. . . . Along the way, we get some fascinating insights, and a few great recipes and illustrations.-Okra MagazineAn undeniably entertaining book.-Journal of Southern History
£21.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Promise of Patriarchy Women and the Nation of Islam
Book SynopsisBlack women's experience in the Nation of Islam has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy.
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Making Freedom The Underground Railroad and the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA readable and compelling narrative on slaves who sought freedom through the Underground Railroad."" - Florida Historical Quarterly""This slender volume packs a powerful punch. R. J. M. Blackett selects compelling stories that convey the deep and extensive networks essential to the operation of the Underground Railroad, its corrosive effect on the slave system, and role in the ultimate demise of slavery."" - Ohio Valley History""Gracefully written. . . . Clear and supported by evidence."" - The North Carolina Historical Review""[A] riveting book."" - Journal of Southern History""Blackett delivers many vivid accounts of escapes. . . as well as an illuminating discussion of slave catching and the organized kidnapping of free blacks."" - Journal of Interdisciplinary History""Employ[s] memorable microhistories that open[s] the door to . . . big interpretive questions."" - Louisiana History""A must-read for all scholars of American slavery and the [Underground Railroad]"" - West Virginia History""Making Freedom is a well-written and informative volume that provides valuable insights into the thinking undergirding the actions of freedom seekers and their supporters."" - Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography""It deserves its place on the growing shelf of studies of the Underground Railroad."" - The Annals of Iowa""Perceptively demonstrates that although marginalized, oppressed, and persecuted, formerly enslaved African Americans impacted 'the politics of scale' and determined the trajectory of the slavery debate in the United States."" - Journal of African American History""A valuable work of scholarship and an asset among the shelves of libraries both public and personal."" - New York History""The clarity of Blackett's vision make[s] this book suitable for a variety of audiences, including undergraduates, graduate students, and professional historians. Blackett's storytelling makes for compelling writing, while the implications of those stories stimulate thinking."" - Journal of the Civil War Era
£19.51
The University of North Carolina Press Converging Empires Citizens and Subjects in the
Book SynopsisMaking a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through an examination of the northernmost stretches of the US-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the border from 1867 to the end of World War II.
£25.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Making a Slave State Political Development in Early South Carolina
Book SynopsisHow is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space - its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications.
£24.26
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Florynce Flo Kennedy The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Book SynopsisOften photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of Kennedy, Sherie M. Randolph traces the life and political influence of this strikingly bold and controversial radical activist.Trade ReviewA fitting, overdue tribute to an unapologetic firebrand and tireless advocate that time almost forgot"". - Kam Williams, syndicated critic""Sherie M. Randolph has written an important biography of an important figure in twentieth-century American feminism and Black Power. I repeat 'important' because Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy self-consciously worked—actually, she agitated—at the confluence of feminism and Black Power with the conviction that racism and sexism were not only foundational in American society but also inextricably intertwined"". - Nell Irvin Painter, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society""A valuable account of this lesser-known, entirely remarkable woman"". - Los Angeles Times""Stimulating and very readable. . . . Makes a substantial addition to the history of 20th-century social movements"". - Against the Current""Successfully recounts Kennedy's dynamic life: bursting with stories of rebellion and triumph, with a backdrop of historical context and, always, a hint of mystery"". - ESSENCE""Randolph . . . has done an important service for anyone who cares about fashioning a complete and complex record of post-World War II feminist activism"" - Women's Review of Books""Randolph's writing is lucid, and her comprehensive political and intellectual biography of Kennedy not only restores Kennedy to the history of U.S. radicalism but it also illuminates the interconnections among movements against racial and gender oppression. . . . If you are a legal historian, scholar of African American history, or a student of feminism, this book is a must-read"". - Journal of American History""Breaks new ground [as the] first full-length biography of black feminist radical Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy. . . . Significantly expands the historical scholarship. Highly recommended"". - Choice""An excellent and welcome biography of a fearless radical activist who has been overlooked for too long"". - American Historical Review""[A] stirring biography. . . . This important book is the story, as Randolph handily tells it, of an extremely brave woman who used the courts as well as the media and worked with a multitude of groups to build and maintain coalitions and create lasting change"". - Library Journal, starred review
£29.96
The University of North Carolina Press Caribbean New Orleans Empire Race and the Making
Book SynopsisCombining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them.
£41.25
The University of North Carolina Press Oberlin Hotbed of Abolitionism
Book SynopsisBy exploring the role of Oberlin - the college and the community - in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes this hotbed of abolitionism as the core of the antislavery movement in the West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum America.Trade ReviewWill invariably interest those eager to understand the historical relationship between the liberal arts and social activism."" - History of Education Quarterly""An engaging and well-written narrative. . . . Anyone with an interest in the history of Oberlin, higher education, the abolitionist movement, and researching these topics, should seriously consider adding Oberlin: Hotbed of Abolitionism to their library."" - Journal of African American History""Provides a thorough overview of the significant role played by Oberlin in abolition and antislavery."" - Journal of American History""Morris provides an insightful analysis of a college and community at the vanguard of abolition...Scholars and students of American history, antebellum reform, and Ohio history will enjoy Morris's energetic prose and engaging work."" - American Historical Review""A necessary and refreshing departure from the standard story of abolitionism."" - The Journal of Southern History""Beautifully and clearly written, and makes for an enjoyable read for readers of this journal who seek a focused history of the Midwest's relevance to national politics and activism."" - Middle West Review
£27.86
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Liberalism Is Not Enough Race and Poverty in
Book SynopsisThis intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Robin Marie Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice.
£23.76
The University of North Carolina Press Virginia 1619
Book SynopsisProvides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries.
£23.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of
Book SynopsisExplores the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the time black and white women gained the vote in 1920.
£28.01
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina KuKlux The Birth of the Klan during
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.Trade ReviewExplodes many commonly held conceptions about the first Klan through meticulous research of thousands of sources."" - Agricultural History""Provides an interesting and insightful view of how the Klan phenomenon was portrayed in different venues and by different kinds of actors."" - American Historical Review""A superb, important new interpretation of the history of the first Ku Klux Klan. . . . Highly recommended for those interested in the history of the South, Reconstruction, and American racial violence."" - North Carolina Historical Review""As much a cultural history as it is an institutional history, a refreshing departure from a vast literature that has long cataloged the political, social, and economic implications of Reconstruction violence."" - Journal of the Civil War""Extraordinarily well-researched. . . .interesting and illuminating."" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette""A happy marriage of the tools of social history and the insights of cultural history."" - Arkansas Historical Quarterly""Essential reading for scholars focusing on the Civil War, Reconstruction, or racist violence in America."" - H-Net Reviews""A provocative reevaluation of the Ku Klux Klan that is essential reading for anyone studying the Reconstruction South."" - Journal of Southern History
£29.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Black Jurist in a Slave Society Antonio Pereira Rebou231as and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship
Book SynopsisNow in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Color of the Third Degree Racism Police
Book SynopsisUncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South. Based on a wide array of previously neglected archival sources, Silvan Niedermeier argues that as public lynching decreased, less visible practices of racial subjugation and repression became central to southern white supremacy.
£25.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Road Through Midnight A Civil Rights Memorial
Book SynopsisAt first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance.
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal
Book SynopsisExamines what the black performance community - a broad network of actors, dramatists, audiences, critics, and community activists - who made and remade black theatre manuscripts for theatre companies from New York to Seattle.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Chocolate City A History of Race and Democracy
Book SynopsisMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the four-century story of race and democracy in America’s capital. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations, this is an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.Trade ReviewAn ambitious, comprehensive chronicle of the civic experience of blacks, whites and other races over more than two centuries in Washington. . . . [It] succeeds in being both scholarly and accessible to the general reader." - Robert McCartney, The Washington Post"An ambitious, kaleidoscopic history of race and politics in Washington, D.C. . . . Essential American history, deeply researched and written with verve and passion." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review"[The authors] embrace the funk band Parliament's moniker for the District of Columbia and deliver a narrative as grand as the city itself. . . . This enriching journey showcases the underappreciated saga of African-American success in the face of adversity." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
£26.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare A Journey into
Book SynopsisFrom 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United Statesûa journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage.Trade ReviewPerforms a feat of historical forensics. . . . Tells the story of [the enslaved peoples'] voyage on the Hare and recovers their identities as people, not just slaves." - Zocalo Public Square"Offers readers a devastating picture of the practices that ravaged West African societies while forming the foundation of colonial America's economy." - Publishers Weekly"A well-researched account of a slave ship that highlights the larger experience of those involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Recommended." - CHOICE"An innovative and timely addition to the historiography of the Atlantic slave trade. . . . A synthesis of the cast and intricate worlds across continents that produced one of the great tragedies in world history." - H-Net Reviews"A deeply researched and elegantly written book that takes full advantage of one of micro-history's greatest strengths -- capturing a sense of historical events unfolding in a real world for real people." - Reviews in American History"Kelley's extensive research and use of deductive reasoning has crafted a remarkably detailed narrative of the voyage from beginning to end. . . . Very strongly recommended." - Civil War News"An important book that not only shows how the slave trade operated, but also provides a clearer picture of the victims' origins, language, and methods of survival." - Kirkus Reviews"Kelley's book is the best biography of a slave ship that sailed from British North America." - Journal of African History"Possibly the best book on a single slave voyage. . . . Paints on a human scale the larger picture of forced Atlantic passages. . . . Provides rich details about how the slave sale took place and who the purchasers were." - William and Mary Quarterly
£25.46
The University of North Carolina Press Redefining the Immigrant South
Book SynopsisBy the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century.Trade ReviewThis book provides greater nuance to historical studies of Asians in the South, but it also reiterates the significance of an intersectional and relational approach to the study of racial formation.--CHOICE
£25.60
The University of North Carolina Press Free the Land
Book SynopsisThe first book to tell the full history of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles.Trade ReviewThe quest for land and justice by the members of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) organization forms the heart of Edward Onaci's monograph. Their journey intersects with elements of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter movements in ways that should make us think deeper about the intellectual, cultural, and social contours of the longer Black Freedom movement."—Society for U.S. Intellectual History"In Free the Land, Onaci reorients histories of African American territorial nationalism. . . . By focusing on the changes in New Afrikan lives, Onaci foregoes the well-laid path of histories of the Black Power movement. . . . Free the Land, ultimately, demonstrates that even when politics seems to be about something as traditional as acquiring land, it is also about the unseen labor of building a movement and about the transformation of the lives of its constituents."3The Baffler
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Semi Queer Inside the World of Gay Trans and
Book SynopsisLong-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh realities of truckers' lives.
£23.76
The University of North Carolina Press Policing Los Angeles
Book SynopsisNarrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosions of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power.
£32.96
The University of North Carolina Press City of Inmates
Book SynopsisLos Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator.Trade ReviewOffers a radically new perspective . . . . City of Inmates demonstrates incontrovertibly that the systems of immigrant exclusion and mass incarceration emerged together and fed each other." - The Metropole"By widening the historical frame, [Hernandez] offers the reader a deeper, more complex, and more historically nuanced view of incarceration. An essential contribution to critical prison studies (CPS)." - H-Net Reviews"Details how successive authoritarian powers in present-day Los Angeles have targeted and captured people using cages to create what is now one of the world's largest prison societies, and ends with a call for it to be destroyed." - The New Inquiry"City of Inmates is a story of removal and dispossession. It is a story of environmental transformation with the use of a subjugated work force (chain gangs). And it is the story of the rise of the human cage--an object that has been both a tool of removal from the land and a racialized environment itself." - Environmental History"A beautifully narrated, deeply insightful historical assessment of the dynamics of American settler colonialism. . . . Remarkable for the depth and breadth of the research that undergirds each of its narratives." - Journal of American History"An astoundingly original evaluation of the central place of incarceration in the history of Los Angeles. . . . City of Inmates is a book that should be read by every person seriously concerned with the question of how we got to where we are, and where we might go from here." - Pacific Historical Review"Marshaling more than two centuries of historical data, Hernandez finds that native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of mass incarceration in Los Angeles from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion." - Law & Social Inquiry"Convincingly demonstrates that the history of American prisons indexes major social and political battles of the country's history." - Western Historical Quarterly"An incisive and meticulously researched study of the transformation of Los Angeles from a small group of Native American communities in the 18th century into an Aryan city of the sun in the 20th." - Los Angeles Review of Books"Hernandez puts in perspective the arrests, convictions, and incarceration for one city that contributes to the US being the carceral capital of the world. Recommended."- Choice
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Converging Empires Citizens and Subjects in the
Book SynopsisMaking a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through an examination of the northernmost stretches of the US-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the border from 1867 to the end of World War II.
£70.50
The University of North Carolina Press That Middle World
Book SynopsisFocusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Julia Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyse mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Christian Citizens Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South
Book SynopsisWith emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction.Trade ReviewA thorough exploration of how Black and white Christians drew on their faith in the aftermath of the Civil War to make radically divergent claims about an ideal political order. . . . [an] enlightening investigation." —Publishers Weekly
£26.36
The University of North Carolina Press Fighting for Citizenship
Book SynopsisIn Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights.
£73.50
The University of North Carolina Press Fighting for Citizenship
Book SynopsisIn Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War-era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights.
£24.26
The University of North Carolina Press The Haitians
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping history, Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the US occupation in 1915.
£31.46
The University of North Carolina Press Blind Joe Deaths America
Book SynopsisFor over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and fabulist for the first time.
£23.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Feminism for the Americas The Making of an
Book SynopsisChronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. Katherine Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism.Trade ReviewIn this valuable contribution to the historiography of social movements in the Americas, Marino chronicles the impact of the women's movement of leaders from six countries--Uruguay, Brazil, Panama, Cuba, the US, and Chile--in the interwar years . . . Marino successfully demonstrates that this was a vital period in Pan-American relations.""- Choice Reviews;""As Marino exposes her subjects' passionate advocacy and agonizing decisions over political strategy from their personal correspondence and conference minutes, the threads from this extraordinary breadth of primary sources are woven into a seamless story. . . . Feminism for the Americas creates a road map for decades of future research.""- Net Reviews;""Marino's historical analysis is timely and necessary, for it renders accessible this neglected arena of the complex struggle for women's rights in the Western Hemisphere.""- Latino Book Review;""A brilliant and ambitious new account of the origins of global feminism . . . . Feminism for the Americas reconstructs a radical, transnational, and influential movement for women's equality and social justice.""- International Feminist Journal of Politics;""Marino's excellent study is a necessary contribution to the history of feminist organizing in the early twentieth century. . . . This timely book extends trends in the fields of U.S. history and U.S. feminist history that seek to employ a more hemispheric orientation, but it also foregrounds how Latin American feminists, with their U.S. counterparts following, took the lead in establishing a global feminist movement.""- Journal of American History;""[An] often thrilling account. . . . Marino's book is an important work for any scholar or student interested in Latin American feminisms, Pan-American movements, the history of human rights, or even histories of how whiteness has operated in Latin American politics.""- The Americas;""The best book on Western Hemispheric feminism in at least two decades. . . . A necessary starting point for anyone contemplating research on inter-American feminism. . . . Marino has given us a masterpiece.""- Hispanic American Historical Review;""Beautifully researched with a cross-section of primary sources—newspapers, photos, letters drawn from archives in six different countries. The magnitude of the research is never lost on this reader; the book should be assigned to all doctoral students pursuing transnational historical research, feminist or not, as a model for what the final product should look like.""- Pacific Historical Review;""Would make a welcome addition to courses on feminist theory and women's roles in the Americas, and it should encourage scholars to dig deeper into the lives and works of feminists who were on the frontlines without necessarily publishing books or articles about feminism.""- Library Journal, starred review;""Katherine Marino's brilliant history of feminismo americano gives Latin American women their rightful place in the history of the transnational women's movement. Crafting an engrossing narrative of individual lives and collective action based on exhaustive multinational research, Marino details the ways Latin American feminists fought on the global stage for economic and social, as well as legal, equality throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and made women's rights human rights long before Hillary Rodham Clinton was born.""- Leila Rupp, author of Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina American Honor The Creation of the Nations
Book SynopsisFocusing his study on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution - notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington - Craig Bruce Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains.Trade Review“Fresh perspectives and an author's willingness to take on orthodoxy are the hallmarks of books worth reading. Craig Bruce Smith provides these attributes in his new volume that conveys the story of the American Revolution through an ethical lens. Focusing not on the battles, he offers a new causation theory for the armed rebellion and why changes in ethical thinking created a common cause for the rebels, which was instrumental in the success of the Revolution.”- Eugene Procknow“Smith has succeeded in writing an important book that revolutionary historians and anyone interested in the place of ethics in public life should read.”- Mark Boonshoft, The Junto“Readers will appreciate Smith's insights into the formation of American national ideals. He scaled a mountain of archival research. . . . [and] writes with fluidity and power, forging his disparate materials into a cohesive shape while retaining a great deal of rich detail.”- American Historical Review“An engaging and scholarly exploration of the way honor and virtue motivated the colonists who created the American republic.”- The New Criterion“A highly original work that deals gracefully with difficult and often amorphous terms and that succeeds in reinvigorating debates on honor culture, inching us closer to a more holistic understanding of the American Revolution.”- Journal of Southern History
£28.76
The University of North Carolina Press Embattled Freedom
Book SynopsisDrawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout America, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the Civil War.Trade Review“Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, Taylor's book offers the reader a vivid and convincing narrative of these slave refugee camps as 'an elemental part of the story of slavery's destruction in the United States,' one that deserves a broad readership among not only Civil War enthusiasts but anyone interested in the history of race and slavery in the United States.”- Publishers Weekly starred review“A fine example of the latest approach to the study of the Civil War. . . . An important book because it shows clearly that, despite Civil War mythology, the conflict did not result in immediate freedom.”- Civil War Book Review“Taylor unravels the tangled process of emancipation during the Civil War. . . . By taking readers inside the camps, Taylor convincingly shows that slave refugee camps played a pivotal role in emancipation because they were the places where policy was enacted in the lives of individuals.”- The Annals of Iowa“A welcome addition to the recent Civil War scholarship that highlights the experiences of people who lived on the fringes of the war. . . . Embattled Freedom brings to life an aspect of the Civil War that many scholars have glossed over . . . well-researched and well-written.”- H-Net Reviews“A well-written, thoroughly documented, thought-provoking, if not always uplifting, book about an overlooked aspect of America's Civil War.”- The Journal of America's Military Past“A compelling account of how African American refugees' search for freedom pushed the nation toward abolition. . . . Taylor meticulously recovers the history of these erased settlements and the African American lives transformed therein. . . . An essential text for scholars and nonacademics alike.”- Journal of the Civil War Era“An insightful and powerful book that highlights the tremendous struggle and endurance of the refugees to secure their freedom in the chaos of a massive war while surrounded by a hostile and armed white population. . . . Taylor's work illustrates the importance of . . . refugee camps as sites of emancipation and the struggle to define freedom during the Civil War.”- Journal of Arizona History“Converts a triumphalist tale of enslavement ended by emancipation into a more realistic one of an ongoing journey toward a contingent and uncertain freedom that was far from complete in 1865.”- Journal of American History
£24.26
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Half in Shadow The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y.
Book SynopsisNellie McKay was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. She is best known for coediting the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy.
£23.76
The University of North Carolina Press No Common Ground Confederate Monuments and the
Book SynopsisIn this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning.
£20.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Before Busing A History of Bostons Long Black
Book SynopsisTells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. The book reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle.
£73.50
The University of North Carolina Press Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
Book SynopsisFor all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children. Drawing evidence Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War.
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Men of Mobtown Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation
Book SynopsisWhat if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during and after slavery's final decades.Trade ReviewIn this absorbing history of policing in 19th century Baltimore, Adam Malka uses a close case study to fill out our understanding of the evolution of policing, vigilantism, and property in 19th century America." - CrimeReads"The Men of Mobtown is a remarkable book. . . . Malka's major achievement is to force readers to consider how today's racial disparities in policing and incarceration are rooted not only in the last fifty years, or in Jim Crow, but in liberal attempts at Reconstruction and the abolition of slavery." - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews"Turns the conventional wisdom about racial policing in the United States on its head. Far from being a grotesque, late twentieth-century distortion of American political principles, race-based disparities in arrests and incarceration, according to Malka, are expressions of core liberal values and emerged alongside assumptions about African American freedom. . . . This argument is original, important, and timely." - Journal of Social History"One of the very few works to examine policing in the era of slavery and Reconstruction. It is an ambitious work at that, trenchantly argued and impressively researched. . . . Malka's major achievement is to force readers to consider how today's racial disparities in policing and incarceration are rooted not only in the last fifty years, or in Jim Crow, but in liberal attempts at Reconstruction and the abolition of slavery." - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"A remarkable book. . . . Malka's major achievement is to force readers to consider how today's racial disparities in policing and incarceration are rooted not only in the last fifty years, or in Jim Crow, but in liberal attempts at Reconstruction and the abolition of slavery." - Joshua Clark Davis, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"[Malka] provides a significant contribution to the history of policing in the United States, pressing readers to consider uncomfortable truths." - Journal of Southern History"Malka's book lays the foundation for our contemporary understanding of how African Americans became the primary victims of police abuse and mass incarceration. He uses newspapers, court records, published reports, and a host of primary sources to support his argument that white supremacy was the driving force that shaped policing and criminal justice in nineteenth-century Baltimore." - Journal of American History
£27.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Arise Africa Roar China Black and Chinese
Book SynopsisExplores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War - journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.
£31.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Settler Memory The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
Book SynopsisConfronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering conversation around race itself.
£70.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Recasting the Vote How Women of Color
Book SynopsisTells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cathleen Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories.Trade Review“Written to coincide with the centennial of the 19th Amendment, this important book reminds us that the familiar stories of women's suffrage are woefully incomplete. . . . An essential work; highly recommended for scholars of the period and general readers interested in women's history.” - Library Journal“A much-needed perspective on the efforts to gain full suffrage for American women at the start of the 20th century. . . . An impressive corrective for those so long left out of this history.” - CHOICE“This spirited history situates the campaign for female suffrage within the broader narrative of civil rights. . . . Cahill's widened focus links the battle for enfranchisement to currents of exclusion and empowerment that continue to shape the vote today.” - The New Yorker“Cathleen D. Cahill's narrative-supplanting book . . . challenges the reductive, whitewashed accounts of how the 19th amendment was ratcheted through the political process. . . . Cahill's text doesn't merely add minority figures to the story of women's enfranchisement, it proves it is impossible to tell the story without them.” - Tribal College Journal
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imaginatio
Book SynopsisRomare Bearden, one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. in this trenchant reappraisal of Bearden’s life and art, Glenda Gilmore reveals his deep imagination, extensive training and rich knowledge of art history.
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Game of Privilege
Book SynopsisExplores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA) - a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975.
£999.99
