These are tumultuous times that call for even more Black Praxis (Study-Struggle-Study). We hope this extensive bibliogrpahy of recently published books on Black Life, History, Struggle,
Education, Culture will help in your daily struggles to learn, teach, organize and mobilize for Black Liberation. Much Thanx to The Journal of Blacks In Higher Education and The Chronicle of Higher education for providing the resources for this listing.
As Frederick Douglass said:
"We Struggle to Learn to Learn to Struggle."
Black
Well-Being:
Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature by Andrea Stone (University Press of Florida) |
Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910 by Walter Fraga (Duke University Press) |
My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South by Sergio A. Lussana (University Press of Kentucky) |
Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media edited by Jason A. Smith and Bhoomi K. Thakore (Routledge) |
Sojourner Truth: Prophet of Social Justice by Isabelle Kinnard Richman (Routledge) |
Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpadden (Regan Arts) |
The Nile Valley Civilization: A Historiographical Commentary on Ancient Africa by Wosene Yefru (Polluck Printing) |
The ‘R’ Word by Kurt Barling (Biteback Publishing) |
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military edited by Geoffrey Jensen (Routledge) |
Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil by Elizabeth Farfan-Santos (University of Texas Press) |
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball by Onaje X.O. Woodbine (Columbia University Press) |
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics by Paul C. Taylor (Wiley-Blackwell) |
Mavericks, Money, and Men: The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football by Charles Ross (Temple University Press) |
The African Diaspora Population in Britain: Migrant Identities and Experiences by Peter J. Aspinall and Martha Judith Chinouya (Palgrave Macmillan) |
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young (Oxford University Press) |
Black Natural Law by Vincent W. Lloyd (Oxford University Press) |
Brother Bill: President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class by Daryl A. Carter (University of Arkansas Press) |
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Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas by Charlotte Hinger (University of Oklahoma Press) |
Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots by Laura Visser-Maessen (University of North Carolina Press) |
Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare: Place, “Race,” Politics by Shaul Bassi (Palgrave Macmillan) |
The Twenty-First Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life: Blackness as Strategy for Social Change by E. Lale Demirturk (Lexington Books) |
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (Bloomsbury USA) |
Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City by Michael Woodsworth (Harvard University Press) |
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren (Liveright) |
The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland edited by DaMaris B. Hill (Lexington Books) |
The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Jon N. Hale (Columbia University Press) |
The Ground on Which I Stand: Tamina, a Freedmen’s Town by Marti Corn (Texas A&M University Press) |
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer (William Morrow) |
83 Minutes: The Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson by Matt Richards (Thomas Dunne Books) |
After the Storm: Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America edited by Lori Matrice Martin et al. (Praeger) |
Pan-Africanism in Modern Times: Challenges, Concerns, and Constraints edited by Olayiwola Abegunrin and Sabella Ogbobode (Lexington Books) |
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The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century edited by Marc C. Conner and Lucas E. Morel (University Press of Mississippi) |
The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by William F. Pepper (Skyhorse Publishing) |
Conversations with Sterling Plumpp edited by John Zheng (University Press of Mississippi) |
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin (Random House) |
Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898-1940 by Shannon Rose Riley (Palgrave Macmillan) |
Richard Wright: Writing America at Home and From Abroad edited by Virginia Whatley Smith (University Press of Mississippi) |
Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services edited by Alma Carten et al. (Oxford University Press) |
Transformative and Engaging Leadership: Lessons from Indigenous African Women by Maggie Marimba (Palgrave Macmillan) |
Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil by Tianna S. Paschal (Princeton University Press) |
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning by Melody L. Hoffman (University of Nebraska Press) |
Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey With Depression and Faith by Monica A. Coleman (Fortress Press) |
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Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean (Fordham University Press) |
Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah Durkin (Liverpool University Press) |
African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class and Gender by Steeve O. Buckridge (Bloomsbury Academic) |
Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory by Karlos K. Hill (Cambridge University Press) |
Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom by Lynda J. Morgan (University Press of Florida) |
The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones (Simon & Schuster) |
The Risen Phoenix: Black Politics in the Post-Civil War South by Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego (University of Virginia Press) |
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A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching From the Great Migration to Civil Rights by Kenyetta R. Gilbert (Baylor University Press) |
African American Anti-Colonial Thought, 1917-1937 by Cathy Bergin (Edinburgh University Press) |
Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era by John Wriggle (University of Illinois Press) |
Making Roots: A Nation Captivated by Matthew F. Delmont (University of California Press) |
Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy by Douglas Hartmann (University of Chicago Press) |
Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema by Elizabeth Reich (Palgrave Macmillan) |
Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy’s Campaign of Suppression by Peter Grindal and Andrew Lambert (I.B. Taurus) |
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesym Ward (Scribner) |
Toni Morrison, Novelist by Saligrama K. Aithal (CreateSpace) |
Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia by Brian J. Daugherity (University of Virginia Press) |
The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade by Charles B. Dew (University of Virginia Press) |
When We Imagine Grace: Black Men and Subject Making by Simone C. Drake (University of Chicago Press) |
Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey From Nothing to Something in America by C. Nicole Mason (St. Martin’s Press) |
Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation edited by P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods (Lexington Books) |
Inequality in U.S. Social Policy: An Historical Analysis by Bryan Warde (Routledge) |
Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity by Patricia G. Davis (University of Alabama Press) |
The Boy Who Runs: The Odyssey of Julius Achon by John Brant (Ballantine Books) |
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War by Alfred L. Brophy (Oxford University Press) |
In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics and Racial Uplift Among New Negroes by Shantella Y. Sherman (Xlibris) |
Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities edited by Russell J. Skiba et al. (Palgrave Macmillan) |
Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society edited by Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor (Princeton University Press) |
The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader by Shawn Anthony Christian (University of Massachusetts Press) |
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) |
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Time Books) |