A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy. Richard Pryor may have been the most un...
Monday, December 29, 2014
Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball p...
All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
The Northeastern United States—home to abolitionism and a refuge for blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South—has had a long and celebrated histo...
Free Stylin': How Hip Hop Changed the Fashion Industry
For years, designers and manufacturers took cues from the streets to enhance their clothing lines, but before the 1980s the urban consumer...
Friday, December 26, 2014
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth
In 1741, New York City was thrown into an uproar when a sixteen-year-old white woman, an indentured servant named Mary Burton, testified t...
Thursday, December 25, 2014
1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after ...
Spike Lee: Finding the Story and Forcing the Issue
This insightful study probes the iconic filmmaker's career as a director and shaper of American culture. It not only sheds light on th...
Empower the People: Overthrow The Conspiracy That Is Stealing Your Money And Freedom
In the follow-up to his very successful Black Lies, White Lies, controversial talk-show host and radio commentator Tony Brown presents a p...
Spike Lee's America
Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richl...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
A Cuban Boxer's Journey: Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro's Traitor to American Champion
THE STORY OF CUBAN BOXER AND POLITICAL PARIAH GUILLERMO RIGONDEAUX'S HARROWING DECISION TO DEFECT IN HOPES OF REAPING THE REWARDS OF T...
Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music
The anglophone Caribbean has long been celebrated and known for its vibrant and innovative music. Reggae, dancehall, calypso, soca, gospel...
Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative p...
Monday, December 22, 2014
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades ...
Down Second Avenue by Es'kia Mphahlele and Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African wr...
Herbs and Other Cures: Rare Herbal Healing
Rare herbal plants and other cures is a natural way of life for many tribes. For centuries people have used herbal medicine this book has ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound
In 1929 and 1930, during the Hollywood studios' conversion to synchronized-sound film production, white-controlled trade magazines and...
Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a ...
Slave Songs of the United States
First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated th...
Friday, December 19, 2014
Operation Fly Trap: L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law
In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, Afr...
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little...
Kahuna Healing
The author sets forth the ancient Hawaiian tradition which includes a complete program for the prevention and cure of illness---a holistic...
Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transfor...
Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition
In this book, Robert L. Stone follows the sound of steel guitar into the music-driven Pentecostal worship of two related churches: the Hou...
Monday, December 15, 2014
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black wome...
Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life
In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is th...
Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
Shortly after the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Ku Klux Klan--determined to keep segregation as the way of life in Alabama--s...
Salem Health Magill's Medical Guide
Since 1995, Magill's Medical Guide has provided readers with the most authoritative yet accessible information about a variety of heal...
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One
Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-...
Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life
Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela offers a fascinating and complete look at one of the 20th century's great leaders and...
Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway
Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab C...
Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System 2nd Edition
An exploration into the criminal justice system in America today and its impact on young African American males, this book challenges the ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she ...
Rock Art of the Caribbean
This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear t...
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film
This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African ...
US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers: The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War, 1950-1951
The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Its ten-m...
Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this count...
Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues
Detailing the fascinating career of Joe Evans, Follow Your Heart chronicles the nearly thirty years that he spent immersed in one of the m...
Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the c...
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