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Banning Black Gods

Law and Religions of the African Diaspora

Danielle N. Boaz

$110.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08930-0

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242 pages
6" × 9"
2021

Africana Religions

Black Cookstove

Meditations on Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia

Germán Patiño Ossa, translated by Jonathan Tittler

$27.50 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08698-9

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112 pages
6" × 9"
21 b&w illustrations/2 maps
2020

Christian Interculture

Texts and Voices from Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds

Edited by Arun W. Jones

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08779-5

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260 pages
6" × 9"
2021

World Christianity

Caricature and National Character

The United States at War

Christopher J. Gilbert

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08976-8
Coming in May

256 pages
6" × 9"
35 b&w illustrations
2021

Humor in America

Designing a New Tradition

Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness

Rebecca VanDiver

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08604-0

256 pages
8" × 10"
51 color/37 b&w illustrations
2020

Judaism, Race, and Ethics

Conversations and Questions

Edited by Jonathan K. Crane

$49.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08580-7

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304 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Deportable and Disposable

Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant

Lisa A. Flores

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08788-7

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08789-4
Coming in August

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236 pages
6" × 9"
10 b&w illustrations
2020

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

Deep Knowledge

Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions

Oludamini Ogunnaike

$149.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08690-3

$49.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08691-0
Coming in December

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480 pages
7" × 10"
4 b&w illustrations
2020

Africana Religions

Contraband Guides

Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era

Paul H. D. Kaplan

$94.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08385-8

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312 pages
9" × 10"
48 color/76 b&w illustrations
2020

Misfit Modernism

Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel

Octavio R. González

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08713-9

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08714-6
Coming in December

248 pages
6.75" × 9.5"
2020

Refiguring Modernism

Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École

Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power

Jessica Gerschultz

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08318-6

272 pages
9" × 9.5"
42 color/79 b&w illustrations
2020

Refiguring Modernism

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Michael Muhammad Knight

$124.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08709-2

314 pages
6" × 9"
37 b&w illustrations
2020

Africana Religions

Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa

Adriaan van Klinken

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08380-3

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08381-0

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248 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Africana Religions

Study in Black and White

Photography, Race, Humor

Tanya Sheehan

$49.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08110-6

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08111-3

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216 pages
8.5" × 9.5"
80 color/12 b&w illustrations
2018

Journey to the Maghreb and Andalusia, 1832

The Travel Notebooks and Other Writings

Eugène Delacroix, Translated by Michèle Hannoosh

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08334-6

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216 pages
6" × 9"
8 b&w illustrations/5 maps
2019

Staging Habla de Negros

Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain

Nicholas R. Jones

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08346-9

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08347-6

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248 pages
6" × 9"
15 b&w illustrations
2019

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Projecting Citizenship

Photography and Belonging in the British Empire

Gabrielle Moser

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08127-4

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08128-1

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248 pages
7" × 10"
64 b&w illustrations
2019

Religion Around Bono

Evangelical Enchantment and Neoliberal Capitalism

Chad E. Seales

$32.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08489-3

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200 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Edited by Cécile Fromont

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08329-2

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08330-8
Coming in May

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224 pages
6" × 9"
10 color/6 b&w illustrations
2019

Africana Religions

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism

African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

Carole Lynn Stewart

$124.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08203-5

$32.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09023-8

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232 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Africana Religions

Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings

Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola

$94.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08096-3

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08097-0

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272 pages
6" × 9"
7 b&w illustrations
2018

Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art

Edited by James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07774-1

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07775-8

204 pages
8" × 10"
33 color/22 b&w illustrations
2018

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Tracy Fessenden

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08095-6

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280 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2018

Religion Around

Kimbanguism

An African Understanding of the Bible

Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, Translated by Cécile Coquet-Mokoko

$92.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07755-0

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304 pages
6" × 9"
23 b&w illustrations/2 maps
2017

Signifying (on) Scriptures

Nothing but Love in God’s Water

Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City

Robert Darden

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07576-1

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344 pages
7" × 10"
28 b&w illustrations
2016

Nothing but Love in God's Water

Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

Robert Darden

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05084-3

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224 pages
7" × 10"
7 b&w illustrations
2014

Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt

Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature

Reginald A. Wilburn

$70.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-8207-0471-5

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08729-0

406 pages
6" × 9"
2014

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

Emilie Davis’s Civil War

The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865

Edited by Judith Giesberg, transcribed and annotated by The Memorable Days Project

$59.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06367-6

$16.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06368-3

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240 pages
5" × 8"
24 b&w illustrations
2014

From Apartheid to Democracy

Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

Katherine Elizabeth Mack

$64.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06497-0

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06498-7

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176 pages
6" × 9"
5 b&w illustrations
2014

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

Collective Courage

A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06217-4

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328 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
1 b&w illustration
2014

Divining the Self

A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness

Velma E. Love

$54.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05405-6

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05406-3

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160 pages
6" × 9"
3 b&w illustrations
2012

Signifying (on) Scriptures

Decentralization and Recentralization in the Developing World

Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America

J. Tyler Dickovick

$67.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03790-5

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03791-2

248 pages
6" × 9"
1 b&w illustration
2011

Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States

Converging Paths?

G. Reginald Daniel

$77.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02883-5

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03288-7

384 pages
6" × 9"
2006

Back to Africa

Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848–1880

Edited by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon

$30.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02763-0

368 pages
6" × 9"
2 b&w illustrations
2005

Blacks of the Rosary

Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Elizabeth W. Kiddy

$30.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02694-7

304 pages
6" × 9"
8 b&w illustrations/5 maps
2005

The Constraint of Race

Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America

Linda Faye Williams

$41.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02535-3

440 pages
6" × 9"
2003

David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

Edited by Peter P. Hinks

$18.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-01994-9

192 pages
5" × 8.5"
1 b&w illustration/1 map
2000

Who Is Black?

One Nation’s Definition

F. James Davis

$25.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02172-0

232 pages
6" × 9"
2001
10th Anniversary Edition

Notes of a White Black Woman

Race, Color, Community

Judy Scales-Trent

$30.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02124-9

206 pages
6" × 9"
1995

Editorial Staff to contact

Director His book series include Africana Religions, Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination, and Penn State Studies in the History of the Book.

Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, magic and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture, and Modernism. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies; Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755; Latin American Originals; Magic in History; Magic in History Sourcebooks; and Refiguring Modernism.

Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, religious studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity; Religion Around; The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe; Keystone Books; Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies; Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700; World Christianity; and Perspectives on Sensory History.

Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of American studies and rhetoric and communication studies. His book series include American Music History Book Series, Humor in America, Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, and RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric.

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