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African American Studies



link to catalog page HUNTLEY, Foot Soldiers for Democracy

Foot Soldiers for Democracy

The Men, Women, and Children of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

Author: Edited by Horace Huntley and John W. McKerley
Pub Date: January 2009

Firsthand accounts from the Civil Rights Movement's frontlines   learn more...

link to catalog page MARKS, Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne Author: Carole C. Marks
Pub Date: July 2009

The dynamic lives of three diverse women, fighting for and against slavery in antebellum Maryland   learn more...

link to catalog page EVANS, Open Wound

Open Wound

The Long View of Race in America

Author: William McKee Evans
Pub Date: April 2009

A timely reframing of race in America   learn more...

link to catalog page KIDITSCHEK, Race Struggles Author: Edited by Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, and Helen A. Neville
Pub Date: September 2009

Examining the material conditions of race and its relation to class and gender   learn more...

link to catalog page BURTON, Remembering Brown at Fifty

Remembering Brown at Fifty

The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education

Author: Edited by Orville Vernon Burton and David O’Brien
Pub Date: December 2009

Original interpretations of Brown v. Board of Education's impact, fifty years later   learn more...

link to catalog page DOWLING, Slumming in New York

Slumming in New York

From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem

Author: Robert M. Dowling
Pub Date: Cloth: 2007; Paper: 2009

A penetrating study of the literary writings that transformed New York City's moral threats into cultural treasures   learn more...

link to catalog page DUNN,

"Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas

Black Power Action Films

Author: Stephane Dunn
Pub Date: August 2008

An incisive analysis of gender and race in classic blaxploitation films   learn more...

link to catalog page ANDERSON, Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama Author: Lisa M. Anderson
Pub Date: November 2008

An enlightening study of feminism in the work of seven black playwrights   learn more...

link to catalog page BANDELE, Black Star

Black Star

African American Activism in the International Political Economy

Author: Ramla M. Bandele
Pub Date: September 2008

How activists in the African diaspora formed a black merchant marine, building the foundation for a black nation-state   learn more...

link to catalog page SCOTT, Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga

Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga

Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South

Author: Michelle R. Scott
Pub Date: August 2008

The cultural and industrial reconstruction of the South, explored through a major figure in early black music   learn more...

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