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Black and Gold

Transmutations of Metal and Modernity

W. Ian Bourland

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232 pages
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24 color/6 b&w illustrations
2026

AFRICANAS

Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature

Adriaan van Klinken

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10039-5

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10040-1

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2025

World Christianity

Collective Courage

A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09751-0

344 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
1 b&w illustration
2024
Tenth Anniversary Edition

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

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ISBN: 978-0-271-06368-3

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240 pages
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24 b&w illustrations
2014

An Uncommon Woman

The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith

Mark Kelley

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09675-9

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280 pages
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27 b&w illustrations
2023
Co-published with LancasterHistory

Keystone Books

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

Edited by Peter P. Hinks

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ISBN: 978-0-271-01994-9

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

To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren

David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance

Peter P. Hinks

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02927-6

320 pages
6" × 9"
1996

African Venice

A Guide to Art, Culture and People

Paul Kaplan and Shaul Bassi, Foreword by Igiaba Scego, and Afterword by Maaza Mengiste

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09993-4

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272 pages
5 1/2" × 8 1/4"
46 color illustrations/10 maps
2025

A Black Philadelphia Reader

African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love

Edited by Louis J. Parascandola

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09731-2

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384 pages
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2024

Memorializing the Unsung

Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism

Elochukwu Uzukwu, C.S.Sp.

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09698-8

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244 pages
6" × 9"
2024

World Christianity

The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson

Blues, Race, Identity

Julia Simon

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09255-3

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236 pages
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7 b&w illustrations
2022

American Music History

Debt and Redemption in the Blues

The Call for Justice

Julia Simon

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09495-3

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09496-0

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254 pages
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2023

American Music History

Nothing but Love in God's Water

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

Robert Darden

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ISBN: 978-0-271-05084-3

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224 pages
7" × 10"
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2014

Nothing but Love in God’s Water

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

Robert Darden

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ISBN: 978-0-271-07576-1

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

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

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09561-5

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09562-2

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272 pages
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2023

American Music History

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Tracy Fessenden

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08095-6

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280 pages
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2018

Religion Around

Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings

Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08096-3

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08097-0

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

The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance

Twelve Black Writers, 1923–1933

Amritjit Singh

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ISBN: 978-0-271-01208-7

184 pages
6" × 9"
1976

Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa

Adriaan van Klinken

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08380-3

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08381-0

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248 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Africana Religions

Cervantine Blackness

Nicholas R. Jones

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09877-7

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09878-4

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202 pages
6" × 9"
15 b&w illustrations
2025

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Staging Habla de Negros

Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain

Nicholas R. Jones

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08346-9

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08347-6

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248 pages
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15 b&w illustrations
2019

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Banning Black Gods

Law and Religions of the African Diaspora

Danielle N. Boaz

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08930-0

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09452-6

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242 pages
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2021

Africana Religions

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Edited by Cécile Fromont

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08329-2

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08330-8

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

Africana Religions

Deep Knowledge

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

Oludamini Ogunnaike

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08690-3

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08691-0

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

Africana Religions

Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art

Edited by James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill

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ISBN: 978-0-271-07775-8

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

Divining the Self

A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness

Velma E. Love

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ISBN: 978-0-271-05405-6

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ISBN: 978-0-271-05406-3

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

Signifying (on) Scriptures

Black Cookstove

Meditations on Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia

Germán Patiño Ossa, translated by Jonathan Tittler

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08698-9

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

Blacks of the Rosary

Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Elizabeth W. Kiddy

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02694-7

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

Back to Africa

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

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

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02763-0

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

Study in Black and White

Photography, Race, Humor

Tanya Sheehan

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08110-6

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08111-3

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

Creole

Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09154-9

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09155-6

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368 pages
9" × 10"
120 color/84 b&w illustrations
2022

Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

Cécile Fromont

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09218-8

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336 pages
10" × 9"
126 color/52 b&w illustrations/1 map
2022

Struggle for the City

Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement

Derek G. Handley

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09775-6

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09776-3

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222 pages
6" × 9"
2 color/14 b&w illustrations
2024

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

An Imperial Homeland

Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa

Adam A. Blackler

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09298-0

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09299-7

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282 pages
6" × 9"
11 b&w illustrations
2022

Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe

Sorcery or Science?

Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

Ariela Marcus-Sells

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09229-4

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09230-0

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232 pages
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4 b&w illustrations/1 map
2022

Magic in History

Metaphysical Africa

Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

Michael Muhammad Knight

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08709-2

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09451-9

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

Africana Religions

African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs

Opportunity, Access, and Community

Mary Ann Calo, and Epilogue by Jacqueline Francis

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09493-9

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09494-6

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216 pages
6" × 9"
15 b&w illustrations
2023

Designing a New Tradition

Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness

Rebecca VanDiver

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08604-0

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

Contraband Guides

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

Paul H. D. Kaplan

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08385-8

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

Qayrawān

The Amuletic City

William Gallois

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09527-1

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208 pages
8" × 9.5"
100 b&w illustrations
2024

Refiguring Modernism

Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École

Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power

Jessica Clare Gerschultz

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08318-6

272 pages
9" × 9.5"
42 color/79 b&w illustrations
2019

Refiguring Modernism

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism

African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

Carole Lynn Stewart

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08203-5

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09023-8

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232 pages
6" × 9"
2018

Africana Religions

Marrakesh and the Mountains

Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib

Abbey Stockstill

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09676-6

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168 pages
9" × 10"
50 color/22 b&w illustrations
2024

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

Cold War Photographic Diplomacy

The US Information Agency and Africa

Darren Newbury

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09567-7

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300 pages
7" × 10"
21 color/83 b&w illustrations
2024

Afro-American Writing

An Anthology of Prose and Poetry

Edited by Richard A. Long, and Edited by Eugenia W. Collier

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ISBN: 978-0-271-00376-4

736 pages
6" × 9"
1990

Who Is Black?

One Nation’s Definition

F. James Davis

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02172-0

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

Notes of a White Black Woman

Race, Color, Community

Judy Scales-Trent

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02124-9

206 pages
6" × 9"
1995

African Americans in Pennsylvania

Shifting Historical Perspectives

Edited by Joe William Trotter, and Edited by Eric Ledell Smith

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ISBN: 978-0-271-01687-0

536 pages
6" × 9"
40 b&w illustrations
1997

Civil Rights and Social Wrongs

Black-White Relations Since World War II

Edited by John Higham

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ISBN: 978-0-271-01709-9

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ISBN: 978-0-271-01932-1

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232 pages
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1997

The Constraint of Race

Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America

Linda Faye Williams

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02535-3

440 pages
6" × 9"
2003

Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life

Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings

Edited by Ruth Bogin, and Bert J. Loewenberg

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ISBN: 978-0-271-00507-2

368 pages
6" × 9"
1976

Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms

Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. Revised Edition

Wilson J. Moses

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ISBN: 978-0-271-00933-9

294 pages
6" × 9"
1993

The Roving Editor

Or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States, by James Redpath

Edited by John R. McKivigan

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02602-2

388 pages
6" × 9"
3 b&w illustrations
1996

The Elite of Our People

Joseph Willson’s Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia

Edited by Julie Winch

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02021-1

216 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
9 b&w illustrations
2000

The Schenley Experiment

A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School

Jake Oresick

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ISBN: 978-0-271-07833-5

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240 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
42 b&w illustrations/4 maps
2017

Keystone Books

Liberian Dreams

Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s

Edited by Wilson J. Moses

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ISBN: 978-0-271-01711-2

268 pages
5" × 8"
1998

Le Tumulte noir

Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900–1930

Jody Blake

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02339-7

228 pages
8.5" × 11"
8 color/94 b&w illustrations
1999

Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States

Converging Paths?

G. Reginald Daniel

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ISBN: 978-0-271-02883-5

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ISBN: 978-0-271-03288-7

384 pages
6" × 9"
2006

Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality

The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States

James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Sheila L. Croucher

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ISBN: 978-0-271-03555-0

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ISBN: 978-0-271-03556-7

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208 pages
6" × 9"
2009

From Apartheid to Democracy

Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

Katherine Elizabeth Mack

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ISBN: 978-0-271-06497-0

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ISBN: 978-0-271-06498-7

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

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

The Urban Scene

Race, Reginald Marsh, and American Art

Carmenita Higginbotham

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ISBN: 978-0-271-06393-5

224 pages
8" × 10"
36 color/44 b&w illustrations
2015

“I Don’t See Color”

Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

Edited by Bettina Bergo and Tracey Nicholls, Preface by Eula Biss

Was: $37.95 Now: $15.18 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06500-7

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280 pages
6" × 9"
2015

Empire of Landscape

Space and Ideology in French Colonial Algeria

John Zarobell

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ISBN: 978-0-271-03443-0

216 pages
9" × 10"
45 color/38 b&w illustrations
2009

Fragments from the History of Loss

The Nature Industry and the Postcolony

Louise Green

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08701-6

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08702-3

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204 pages
6" × 9"
7 b&w illustrations
2020

AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series

Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt

Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature

Reginald A. Wilburn

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ISBN: 978-0-8207-0471-5

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08729-0

406 pages
6" × 9"
2014
Originally published by Duquesne University Press

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

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