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African American Studies
October 19, 2017
The Illustrated Slave
Empathy, Graphic Narratives, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1853
Martha J. Cutter
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James Stancil
Slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of the transatlantic world for centuries. Scholars have examined various aspects of the visual culture that was …
African American Studies
October 16, 2017
Prison Power
How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation
Lisa M. Corrigan
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James Stancil
In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Prison Power: How Prison Influenced …
African American Studies
October 6, 2017
The Port Chicago 50
Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin
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James Stancil
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men …
African American Studies
October 3, 2017
African Americans Against the Bomb
Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
Vincent J. Intondi
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James Stancil
For the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement (Stanford University Press, 2015) tells the compelling story of those black activists who …
African American Studies
September 13, 2017
Underground Airlines
A Novel
Ben H. Winters
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James Stancil
Underground Airlines (Mulholland Books, 2016) is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe …
African American Studies
September 11, 2017
Masterless Men
Poor Whites in the Antebellum South
Keri Leigh Merritt
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James Stancil
Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Masterless Men: Poor Whites in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017) reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is …
African American Studies
September 7, 2017
Katherine Dunham
Dance and the African Diaspora
Joanna Dee Das
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James Stancil
By drawing on a vast, never-utilized trove of archival materials along with oral histories, choreographic analysis, and embodied research, Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2017) …
African American Studies
August 28, 2017
Theorizing Race in the Americas
Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos
Juliet Hooker
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James Stancil
In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - …
African American Studies
August 23, 2017
First Martyr of Liberty
Crispus Attucks in American Memory
Mitch Kachun
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James Stancil
First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory (Oxford University Press, 2017) explores how Crispus Attucks' death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in …
African American Studies
July 25, 2017
The Man-Not
Race, Class, Genre and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
Tommy J. Curry
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James Stancil
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press, 2017) is a book-length justification for the burgeoning field of Black Male Studies. The author posits …
African American Studies
July 20, 2017
Congo Love Song
African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
Ira Dworkin
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James Stancil
In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that …
African American Studies
July 13, 2017
Blue Texas
The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
Max Krochmal
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James Stancil
Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) is about the "other" Texas, not the state known for …
Art
June 23, 2017
Through Darkness to Light
Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
Jeanine Michna-Bales
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James Stancil
When the Sun comes back And the first quail calls Follow the Drinkin' Gourd. For the old man is a-waiting for to carry you to freedom If you follow the …
African American Studies
June 14, 2017
Mainstreaming Black Power
Tom Adam Davies
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James Stancil
What is Black Power? Does it still exist in the so-called post-racial 21st Century? How does Black Power relate to similar movements, like Black Lives Matter? There as so many …
African American Studies
June 8, 2017
Fighting for Uncle Sam
Blacks in the Frontier Army
John P. Langellier
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James Stancil
From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation's defense. Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Solders in the Frontier Army (Schiffer, 2016) breathes …
African American Studies
May 27, 2017
A Pure Solar World
Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Paul Youngquist
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James Stancil
The legendary band leader Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on Earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting …
African American Studies
May 26, 2017
Fugitive Science
Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
Britt Rusert
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James Stancil
Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York University Press, 2017), uncovers the dynamic …
African American Studies
May 19, 2017
Making Gullah
A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
Melissa L. Cooper
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James Stancil
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) is a wide-ranging history that upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the …
African American Studies
May 16, 2017
Connecting the Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Stanley Corkin
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James Stancil
Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002-2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling …
African American Studies
April 26, 2017
In the Name of the Mother
Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
Samuele Pardini
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James Stancil
In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen (Dartmouth, 2017) emphasizes the racial "in-betweenness" of Italian Americans rearticulated as …
African American Studies
April 18, 2017
Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies
How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll
James A. Cosby
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James Stancil
Do you love Rock and Roll or is Rock and Roll music dead? Are you old enough to have put any money in a jukebox to hear your favorite song …
African American Studies
April 12, 2017
Remixing Reggaeton
The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico
Petra Rivera-Rideau
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James Stancil
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race …
African American Studies
April 5, 2017
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Daina Ramey Berry
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James Stancil
A profoundly humane look at an inhumane institution, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation …
African American Studies
March 29, 2017
The World of Shaft
A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series
Steve Aldous
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James Stancil
Who's the black private dick That's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft) Ya damn right Who is the man that would risk his neck For his brother man …
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