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New in Paperback!
246 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2017
paper 978-1-4399-1200-3
cloth 978-1-43991-199-0

266 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2017
paper 978-1-4399-1415-1
cloth 978-1-4399-1414-4

Black Power, White Blood
The Life and Times of Johnny Spain
Andrews, Lori

352 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1999
paper 978-1-56639-750-6

The Afrocentric Idea
Asante, Molefi Kete

Revised and Expanded Edition
256 pp • 5.5x8.2 • Fall 1997
paper 978-1-56639-595-3
cloth 978-1-56639-594-6

African Intellectual Heritage
A Book of Sources
edited by Asante, Molefi Kete and Abu S. Abarry

848 pp • 7x10 • Fall 1995
paper 978-1-56639-403-1
cloth 978-1-56639-402-4

264 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2013
paper 978-1-4399-0709-2
cloth 978-1-4399-0708-5

Looking Up at Down
The Emergence of Blues Culture
Barlow, William

464 pp • Spring 1989
paper 978-0-87722-722-9
cloth 978-0-87722-583-6

Voice Over
The Making of Black Radio
Barlow, William

334 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1998
paper 978-1-56639-667-7
cloth 978-1-56639-666-0

Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman
Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance
Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara

194 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2009
paper 978-1-59213-668-1
cloth 978-1-59213-667-4

400 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2014
cloth 978-1-4399-1127-3

New in Paperback!
552 pp • 6.125x9.25 • Fall 2017
paper 978-1-4399-1274-4
cloth 978-1-4399-1273-7

Promiseland
A Century of Life in a Negro Community
Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh

329 pp • Spring 1981
paper 978-0-87722-275-0
cloth 978-0-87722-211-8

Tasting Freedom
Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America
Biddle, Daniel R. and Murray Dubin

New in Paperback!
632 pp • Fall 2017
paper 978-1-4399-1349-9
cloth 978-1-59213-465-6

Still the Big News
Racial Oppression in America
Blauner, Bob

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2001
paper 978-1-56639-874-9
cloth 978-1-56639-873-2

Catalog of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection of the Temple University Libraries
Blockson, Charles L., introduction by Dorothy Porter Wesley

820 pp • Fall 1990
cloth 978-0-87722-749-6

Black Women Writing Autobiography
A Tradition Within a Tradition
Braxton, Joanne M.

240 pp • Fall 1989
paper 978-0-87722-803-5
cloth 978-0-87722-639-0

Between Race and Empire
African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution
edited by Brock, Lisa and Digna Casteñada Fuertes, foreword by Manning Marable

289 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1998
paper 978-1-56639-587-8
cloth 978-1-56639-586-1

258 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2014
paper 978-1-59213-838-8
cloth 978-1-59213-837-1

The End of White World Supremacy
Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line
Bush, Roderick

264 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2009
paper 978-1-59213-573-8
cloth 978-1-59213-572-1

Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought
Childs, John Brown

224 pp • Fall 1988
paper 978-1-56639-085-9
cloth 978-0-87722-581-2

232 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2008
paper 978-1-59213-903-3
cloth 978-1-59213-902-6

736 pp • 6.25x9.125 • Fall 2013
paper 978-1-4399-1105-1

From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
Collins, Patricia Hill

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-092-4
cloth 978-1-59213-091-7

278 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0961-4
cloth 978-1-4399-0960-7

Black Corporate Executives
The Making and Breaking of a Black Middle Class
Collins, Sharon M.

216 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1996
paper 978-1-56639-474-1
cloth 978-1-56639-473-4

Bridging the Americas
The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
Coser, Stelamaris

240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1994
paper 978-1-56639-267-9
cloth 978-1-56639-266-2

Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round
The Pursuit of Racial Justice in the Rural South
Couto, Richard A.

440 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1994
paper 978-1-56639-004-0
cloth 978-0-87722-806-6

Shades of Black
Diversity in African American Identity
Cross, William E.

296 pp • Spring 1991
paper 978-0-87722-949-0
cloth 978-0-87722-759-5

294 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2017
paper 978-1-4399-1486-1
cloth 978-1-4399-1485-4

More Than Black?
Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order
Daniel, G. Reginald

280 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2001
paper 978-1-56639-909-8
cloth 978-1-56639-908-1

Detroit
Race and Uneven Development
Darden, Joe T., Richard Child Hill, June Thomas and Richard Thomas

336 pp • Fall 1987
paper 978-0-87722-776-2
cloth 978-0-87722-485-3

Critical White Studies
Looking Behind the Mirror
edited by Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic

704 pp • 7x10 • Spring 1997
paper 978-1-56639-532-8
cloth 978-1-56639-531-1

Black Regions of the Imagination
African American Writers between the Nation and the World
Dunbar, Eve

232 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0943-0
cloth 978-1-4399-0942-3

248 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2008
paper 978-1-59213-662-9
cloth 978-1-59213-661-2

Proceedings of the Black State Conventions, 1865-1900
Volume I
edited by Foner, Philip S. and George E. Walker

Spring 1980
cloth 978-0-87722-145-6

Proceedings of the Black State Conventions, 1840-1865
Volume II
edited by Foner, Philip S. and George E. Walker

405 pp • Fall 1985
cloth 978-0-87722-149-4

American Communism and Black Americans
A Documentary History, 1930-1934, Volume 2
Foner, Philip S. and Herbert Shapiro

416 pp • Fall 1990
cloth 978-0-87722-761-8

Black Workers
A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present
edited by Foner, Philip S. and Ronald L. Lewis

400 pp • Fall 1988
paper 978-0-87722-554-6
cloth 978-0-87722-592-8

216 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2013
paper 978-1-4399-0811-2
cloth 978-1-4399-0810-5

TVA and Black Americans
Planning for the Status Quo
Grant, Nancy L.

240 pp • Fall 1989
cloth 978-0-87722-626-0

Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression
Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940
Gregg, Robert

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-664-6
cloth 978-1-56639-063-7

An Essay on African Philosophical Thought
The Akan Conceptual Scheme
Gyekye, Kwame

Revised Edition
296 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1995
paper 978-1-56639-380-5
cloth 978-1-56639-383-6

224 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2008
paper 978-1-59213-622-3
cloth 978-1-59213-621-6

The Philosophy of Alain Locke
Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
edited by Harris, Leonard

344 pp • Fall 1988
paper 978-0-87722-829-5
cloth 978-0-87722-584-3

From Mammies to Militants
Domestics in Black American Literature
Harris, Trudier

248 pp • Fall 1982
cloth 978-0-87722-279-8

Black Theatre
Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora
edited by Harrison, Paul Carter, Victor Leo Walker II and Gus Edwards

432 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2002
paper 978-1-56639-944-9
cloth 978-1-56639-943-2

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2008
paper 978-1-59213-977-4
cloth 978-1-59213-976-7

Jookin'
The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture
Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina

248 pp • Spring 1990
paper 978-0-87722-956-8
cloth 978-0-87722-613-0

African-American Reflections on Brazil's Racial Paradise
edited by Hellwig, David J.

276 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1992
cloth 978-0-87722-892-9

Bass Line
The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton
Hinton, Milt and David G. Berger

328 pp • 10.5x9.5 • Fall 1988
paper 978-0-87722-681-9
cloth 978-0-87722-518-8

320 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2007
paper 978-1-59213-625-4
cloth 978-1-59213-624-7

Cold War in a Hot Zone
The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies
Horne, Gerald

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2007
paper 1 978-1-59213-628-5
cloth 978-1-59213-627-8

274 pp • 6x9• Fall 2008
paper 978-1-59213-900-2
cloth 978-1-59213-899-9

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro
A Documentary History
edited by Howard, Walter T.

208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2007
cloth 978-1-59213-597-4

We Shall Be Free!
Black Communist Protests in Seven Voices
Howard, Walter T.

220 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2013
cloth 978-1-4399-0859-4

The African American Jeremiad
Appeals for Justice in America
Howard-Pitney, David

Revised and Expanded Edition
288 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-415-1
cloth 978-1-59213-328-4

The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons
Hull, Elizabeth A., foreword by Representative John Conyers, Jr.

232 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2005
paper 978-1-59213-185-3
cloth 978-1-59213-184-6

Sisterhood Denied
Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community
Janiewski, Dolores E.

272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1984
paper 978-1-56639-006-4
cloth 978-0-87722-361-0

Yo' Mama!
New Raps, Toasts, Dozens, Jokes and Children's Rhymes from Urban Black America
edited by Jemie, Onwuchekwa

344 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2003
paper 978-1-59213-029-0
cloth 978-1-59213-028-3

192 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-475-5
cloth 978-1-59213-474-8

248 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0857-0
cloth 978-1-4399-0856-3

Body Language
Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics
Lau, Kimberly J.

204 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0309-4
cloth 978-1-4399-0308-7

The Underclass Question
edited by Lawson, Bill E., foreword by William Julius Wilson

232 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1992
paper 978-1-56639-062-0
cloth 978-0-87722-922-3

Running for Freedom
Civil Rights and Black Politics in White America, 1941-1988
Lawson, Steven F.

320 pp • Fall 1990
cloth 978-0-87722-792-2

A Life in the Struggle
Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
Lipsitz, George

Revised Edition
320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-321-8

320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0256-1
cloth 978-1-4399-0255-4

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Lipsitz, George

Revised and Expanded Edition
312 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1998
paper 978-1-59123-494-6
cloth 978-1-59213-493-9

The Parker Sisters
A Border Kidnapping
Maddox, Lucy

256 pp • 6.125x9 • Spring 2016
cloth 978-1-4399-1318-5

Frankie Manning
Ambassador of Lindy Hop
Manning, Frankie and Cynthia R. Millman

312 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2007
paper 978-1-59213-564-6
cloth 978-1-59213-563-9

250 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011
paper 978-1-4399-0656-9
cloth 978-1-4399-0655-2

Black City Cinema
African American Urban Experiences in Film
Massood, Paula J.

280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2002
paper 978-1-59213-003-0
cloth 978-1-59213-002-3

Integrating the City of Medicine
Blacks in Philadelphia Health Care, 1910-1965
McBride, David

320 pp • Fall 1988
cloth 978-0-87722-546-1

Black Power Ideologies
An Essay in African American Political Thought
McCartney, John T.

264 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1992
paper 978-1-56639-145-0
cloth 978-0-87722-914-8

Black Baltimore
A New Theory of Community
McDougall, Harold A.

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1993
paper 978-1-56639-193-1
cloth 978-1-56639-037-8

256 pp • 5.5x8.5 • Fall 2014
paper 978-1-43991-146-4
cloth 978-1-43991-145-7

Re-Viewing James Baldwin
Things Not Seen
edited by Miller, D. Quentin, foreword by David Adams Leeming

312 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1999
paper 978-1-56639-737-7
cloth 978-1-56639-736-0

Swingin' at the Savoy
The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer
Miller, Norma with Evette Jensen

304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2001
paper 978-1-56639-849-7

Children of Strangers
The Stories of a Black Family
Morgan, Kathryn L., afterword by Otey M. Scruggs

122 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1980
paper 978-0-87722-240-8
cloth 978-0-87722-203-3

264 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2015
paper 978-1-4399-1110-5
cloth 978-1-4399-1109-9

Orixás
Os Deuses Vivos da África
Orishas
The Living Gods of Africa in Brazil
do Nascimento, Abdias, foreword by Molefi Kete Asante

170 pp • 10x11 • Fall 1997
cloth 978-85-85853-013

The Beat of My Drum
An Autobiography
Olatunji, Babatunde with Robert Atkinson and Akinsola Akiwowo, foreword by Joan Baez, introduction by Eric Charry

272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005
paper 978-1-59213-354-3
cloth 978-1-59213-353-6

258 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2014
paper 978-1-43990-872-3
cloth 978-1-43990-871-6

Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life
Patterson, Tiffany Ruby

248 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2005
paper 978-1-59213-290-4
cloth 978-1-59213-289-8

Droppin' Science
Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
edited by Perkins, William Eric

288 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1995
paper 978-1-56639-362-1
cloth 978-1-56639-361-4

African American Perspectives on Political Science
Rich, Wilber C., foreword by Charles V. Hamilton

456 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006
paper 978-1-59213-109-9
cloth 978-1-59213-108-2

290 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0492-3
cloth 978-1-4399-0491-6

A City within a City
The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Robinson, Todd E.

248 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0922-5
cloth 978-1-4399-0921-8

All is Never Said
The Story of Odette Harper Hines
Rollins, Judith

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995
paper 978-1-56639-308-9
cloth 978-1-56639-307-2

Love's Revolution
Interracial Marriage
Root, Maria P. P.

240 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2000
paper 978-1-56639-826-8
cloth 978-1-56639-825-1

Mavericks, Money, and Men
The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
Ross, Charles K.

212 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2016
paper 978-1-4399-1307-9
cloth 978-1-4399-1306-2

The Origins of Southern Sharecropping
Royce, Edward

288 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993
cloth 978-1-56639-069-9

Press Box Red
The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports
Silber, Irwin, foreword by Jules Tygiel

256 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2003
paper 978-1-56639-974-6
cloth 978-1-56639-973-9

The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten
Public Face, Private Thoughts
Smalls, James

240 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2006
cloth 978-1-59213-305-5

Neither Separate Nor Equal
Women, Race, and Class in the South
edited by Smith, Barbara Ellen

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1999
paper 978-1-56639-680-6
cloth 978-1-56639-679-0

Silent Gesture
Smith, Tommie with David Steele

288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008
paper 978-1-59213-640-7
cloth 978-1-59123-639-1

African American Writing
A Literary Approach
Sollors, Werner

296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2016
paper 978-1-4399-1337-6
cloth 978-1-4399-1336-9

Chicago
Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline
Squires, Gregory D., Larry Bennett, Kathleen McCourt and Philip Nyden

248 pp • Fall 1987
paper 978-0-87722-617-8
cloth 978-0-87722-487-7

Swing Era New York
The Jazz Photographs of Charles Peterson
Stokes, W. Royal, photographs by Don Peterson, foreword by Stanley Dance

232 pp • 10x8 • Fall 1994
paper 978-1-56639-464-2
cloth 978-1-56639-227-3

Vessels of Evil
American Slavery and the Holocaust
Thomas, Laurence Mordekhai

232 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-100-9
cloth 978-1-56639-093-4

Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory
edited by Valdes, Francisco, Jerome McCristal Culp and Angela P. Harris

440 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2001
paper 978-1-56639-930-2
cloth 978-1-56639-929-6

Fela
The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon
Veal, Michael E.

352 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-765-0
cloth 978-1-56639-764-3

How I Got Over
Clara Ward and the World-Famous Ward Singers
Ward-Royster, Willa, as told by Toni Rose, foreword by Horace Clarence Boyer

263 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2000
paper 978-1-56639-490-1
cloth 978-1-56639-489-5

"Other Sheep I Have"
The Autobiography of Father Paul M. Washington
Washington, Paul M. with David Mcl. Gracie, afterword by Barbara Harris

280 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1994
paper 978-1-56639-178-8
cloth 978-1-56639-177-1

Dark Continent of Our Bodies
Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability
White, E. Frances

208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2001
paper 978-1-56639-880-0
cloth 978-1-56639-879-4

The Black Female Body
A Photographic History
Willis, Deborah and Carla Williams

240 pp • 9x12 • Fall 2001
cloth 978-1-56639-928-9

Black Venus 2010
They Called Her "Hottentot"
edited by Willis, Deborah

288 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2010
paper 978-1-4399-0205-9
cloth 978-1-4399-0204-2

New in Paperback!
240 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2017
paper 978-1-4399-0986-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0985-0

Hope and Dignity
Older Black Women of the South
narrator Wilson, Emily Herring, photographs by Susan Mullally Clark, preface by Maya Angelou

224 pp • 7x9 • Spring 1983
paper 978-1-56639-017-0
cloth 978-0-87722-302-3

Philadelphia's Black Elite
Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848
Winch, Julie

256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1987
paper 978-1-56639-088-0
cloth 978-0-87722-515-7

212 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2012
paper 978-1-4399-0973-7
cloth 978-1-4399-0972-0

224 pp • 10x8 • Fall 2015
cloth 978-1-4399-1309-3

Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871
Yacovone, Donald

300 pp • Spring 1991
cloth 978-0-87722-760-1

The Coolie Speaks
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
Yun, Lisa

336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2007
paper 978-1-59213-582-0
cloth 978-1-59213-581-3

Race and Mixed Race
Zack, Naomi

232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-265-5
cloth 978-1-56639-064-4

Women of Color in U.S. Society
edited by Zinn, Maxine Baca and Bonnie Thornton Dill

360 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1993
paper 978-1-56639-106-1
cloth 978-1-56639-105-4

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