African American Studies

New and Bestselling from this Subject

African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs

Opportunity, Access, and Community

Mary Ann Calo, and Epilogue by Jacqueline Francis

The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson

Blues, Race, Identity

Julia Simon

Debt and Redemption in the Blues

The Call for Justice

Julia Simon

Blackbird

How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After

Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith, with foreword by Cyrus Cassells

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Michael Muhammad Knight

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism

African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

Carole Lynn Stewart

Misfit Modernism

Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel

Octavio R. González

Contraband Guides

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

Paul H. D. Kaplan

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Newbury, Darren
Cold War Photographic Diplomacy (2024)
Parascandola, Louis J., ed.
A Black Philadelphia Reader (2024)
Calo, Mary Ann, with an epilogue by Jacqueline Francis
African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs (2023)
Simon, Julia
The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson (2023)
Simon, Julia
Debt and Redemption in the Blues (2023)
Kapurch, Katie and Jon Marc Smith, with foreword by Cyrus Cassells
Blackbird (2023)
Knight, Michael Muhammad
Metaphysical Africa (2022)
Stewart, Carole Lynn
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism (2021)
González, Octavio R.
Misfit Modernism (2021)
Sheehan, Tanya
Study in Black and White (2020)
Kaplan, Paul H. D.
Contraband Guides (2020)
VanDiver, Rebecca
Designing a New Tradition (2020)
Romaine, James and Phoebe Wolfskill, eds.
Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art (2018)
Fessenden, Tracy
Religion Around Billie Holiday (2018)
Wheeler, Belinda and Louis J. Parascandola, eds.
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond (2018)
Oresick, Jake
The Schenley Experiment (2017)
Bergo, Bettina and Tracey Nicholls, eds.
“I Don’t See Color” (2016)
Darden, Robert
Nothing but Love in God’s Water (2016)
Love, Velma E.
Divining the Self (2015)
Gordon Nembhard, Jessica
Collective Courage (2015)
Higginbotham, Carmenita
The Urban Scene (2015)
Tell, Dave
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America (2015)
Morey, Ann-Janine
Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves (2014)
Darden, Robert
Nothing but Love in God's Water (2014)
Giesberg, Judith, ed. and transcribed and annotated by The Memorable Days Project
Emilie Davis’s Civil War (2014)
Button, James W, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Sheila L. Croucher
Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality (2013)
Daniel, G. Reginald
Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States (2007)
Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. and Margaret Hope Bacon, eds.
Back to Africa (2007)
Kiddy, Elizabeth W.
Blacks of the Rosary (2007)
Williams, Linda Faye
The Constraint of Race (2003)
Davis, F. James
Who Is Black?: 10th Anniversary Edition (2001)
Winch, Julie
The Elite of Our People (2000)
Higham, John, ed.
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs (1999)
Blake, Jody
Le Tumulte noir (1999)
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, ed.
Liberian Dreams (1998)
Trotter, Joe, Jr., and Eric Ledell Smith, eds.
African Americans in Pennsylvania (1997)
McKivigan, John, ed.
The Roving Editor (1996)
Hinks, Peter P.
To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren (1996)
Scales-Trent, Judy
Notes of a White Black Woman (1995)
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah
Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms (1993)
Long, Richard A., and Eugenia W. Collier, eds.
Afro-American Writing (1991)
Loewenberg, Bert James, and Ruth Bogin, eds.
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life (1976)
Singh, Amritjit
The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance (1976)

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