The 5 Books You Need at #ASALH2017

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Here are 5 new African American Studies books to keep an eye out for at ASALH this year. Make sure to stop by the UIP booth and check them out!

1.The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press By Gerald Horne

“An immersive read, a welcome contribution to our understanding of the evolving relationship between African Americans and the media during Jim Crow and its demise. . . . Highly recommended.”–People’s World

 

 

 

BedingfieldF172. Newspaper Wars By Sid Bedingfield

“Very well written and enjoyable to read. Journalists, Sid Bedingfield persuasively demonstrates, did not just document the civil rights movement in South Carolina, but rather they actively influenced its course and outcomes.”–Michael Stamm, author of Sound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media 

 

 

 

 

CaseF173. Leaders of Their Race By Sarah H. Case

“Case has beautifully written a strong argument about the central purpose of these schools and how they compare, with emphasis on both similarities and differences. . . . Case has a strong sense of changes over time, even as she documents continuity.”–Joan Marie Johnson, author of Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875–1915

 

 

 

 

WeemsF174. Building the Black Metropolis Edited By Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers

“A work that examines history in its own skin. At a time when scholarship is praising immigrant entrepreneurship in America, it is great to see a book that says, ‘Black America has been there, done that, and got the T-Shirt.’ A work that should bind the past with the future because it recreates a model of business success that holds the key to the future. An American Story well done.”–John Sibley Butler, author of Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics 

 

 

WolfskillF175. Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention By Phoebe Wolfskill

“In this engaging and well-researched book, Phoebe Wolfskill enlists the career of early 20th century Chicago painter Archibald Motley as a paradigm for considering the difficulties facing African American artists who have lived with cultural stereotypes their whole lives. Through a judicious balancing of insights derived from the careful analysis of individual paintings with a wide range of cultural, artistic, social, and theoretical references, Wolfskill honors the complex underpinnings of Motley’s works and explains the contradictions within them. As a whole, the book both provides an internal coherence to Motley’s career and successfully demonstrates his relation to other American artists of the period who similarly concerned themselves with questions of identity and representation during the interwar decades.”–Mary Ann Calo, author of Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-1940 

Don’t forget to grab free issues of Women, Gender, and Families of Color and The Journal of Civil and Human Rights too!


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