Politics
Who Speaks for the Negro?
In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. His interviewees included well-…
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health
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur Genius Award-Winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed- and heal- communities. The…
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racism
Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, andSocial Norms
Saving the Neighborhood tells the charged, still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, and offers …
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Politics
Blacks In and Out of the Left
The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson i…
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Literature
On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis
In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to t…
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racism
Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders
Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justic…
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racism
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered Species. To many in the age of Obama, America had succ…
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War
African American Connecticut Explored
The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from…
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racism
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in theJim Crow South
In this gripping saga of race and retribution, Alex Heard (editorial director of Outside magazine) tells a moving and unforgettable story of the de…
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Politics
Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880-2012
After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves free, yet largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Drawing on…
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racism
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black …
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War
Segregated Skies: All-Black Combat Squadrons of WW II
Sandler chronicles the pioneering efforts of the all-black 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Medium Bomber Group during WW II, emphasizing how pai…
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technology
Loving's Love: A Black American's Experience in Aviation
Recounts the author's experiences as a black man and aviator, detailing his efforts at building his own experimental aircraft, the loss of both…
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Prince Hall
Negroland: A Memoir
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American cultur…
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War
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War forIndependence
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua…
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Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant a…
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racism
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida
Florida often seems not quite southern - yet it suffered more lynching than any of its Deep South neighbors when examined in proportion to the num…
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Soul
After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye
A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of dru…
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Soul
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of Soul Tr…
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Theatre
White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed forladies & gentlemen of colour: William Brown's African & American theater
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It cater…
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