Miles White’s From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity has picked up some recent endorsements. The book examines how representations of black masculinity in musical and cultural […]
Category: black studies
Q&A with Daughter of the Empire State author Jacqueline A. McLeod
On December 5, 2011, we will publish Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin, a biography of the nation’s first African American woman judge. Author Jacqueline A. […]
Art in America reviews “Races of Mankind”
The November 2011 issue of Art In America magazine features a four-page review, with multiple illustrations, of Marianne Kinkel’s new book Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. The book traces […]
Iran-Contra, Crack Cocaine, and the Transformation of Hip-Hop by Miles White
In August of 1985, the United States government under the administration of President Ronald Reagan secretly and illegally began selling weapons to Iran, which was engaged in what would be […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow wins a Letitia Woods Brown Book Award
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in the SNCC was selected as one of this year’s winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, sponsored by the Association […]
A Caution to those who Rush to Marry by Tess Chakkalakal
On July 24, 2011, the day New York’s Marriage Equality Act took effect, all 823 couples who registered through a lottery system in New York City were granted marriage licenses. […]
Religion in American History on Gospel of the Working Class
Last week the Religion in American History blog published a complimentary piece on Erik Gellman and Jarod Roll’s new book The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New […]
Montague’s magnificent collection
In November 2003, the University of Illinois Press published Burn, Baby! BURN!, the autobiography of famed R&B deejay Magnificent Montague. The June 19, 2011, issue of the Las Vegas Review-Journal features an […]
Black Colleges and the NCAA Basketball Tournament by Charles Martin
Basketball fans around the country are being swept up this week in the annual “March Madness.” The first week of competition in the NCAA men’s tournament includes the infamous one-sided […]
Detroit Free Press features Hands on the Freedom Plow
The February 26, 2011, edition of the Detroit Free Press includes a feature on the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The women […]
Judy Richardson featured on Inside E Street
Judy Richardson, co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was interviewed on the AARP program Inside E Street. The show airs nationwide on public […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow nominated for an NAACP Image Award
Variety reports today that Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work […]