28 Publications from University of Chicago Press an Imprint of University of Chicago Press

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Book Cover Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George Nesbitt

Being Somebody and Black Besides

Book Cover Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole

Black Paper

Book Cover Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells

Crusade for Justice

Book Cover Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing

Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Book Cover The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman

The Business of Being a Writer

Book Cover The Racial Order by Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer

The Racial Order

Book Cover In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

In a Shade of Blue

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Book Cover And Bid Him Sing: A Biography Of Countee Cullen by Charles Molesworth

And Bid Him Sing

Book Cover The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson

The Truly Disadvantaged

Book Cover The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions by William Julius Wilson

The Declining Significance of Race

Book Cover My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War by Lawrence P. Jackson

My Father’s Name

Book Cover Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness by Nicole R. Fleetwood

Troubling Vision

Book Cover On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters by Matthew Desmond

On the Fireline

Book Cover Alain L. Locke: The Biography Of A Philosopher by Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth

Alain L. Locke

Book Cover Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley

Richard Wright

Book Cover A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries) by Elijah Anderson

A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries)

Book Cover Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture by Hortense J. Spillers

Black, White, and in Color

Book Cover Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Is It Nation Time?

Book Cover The Bloodworth Orphans (Phoenix Fiction) by Leon Forrest

The Bloodworth Orphans (Phoenix Fiction)

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Book Cover There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Phoenix Fiction) by Leon Forrest

There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Phoenix Fiction)

Book Cover Edison: Inventing the Century by Neil Baldwin

Edison

Book Cover Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class by Mary Pattillo-McCoy

Black Picket Fences

Book Cover Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Exodus!

Book Cover The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience by Ali Mazrui

The Power of Babel

Book Cover Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton

Black Metropolis

Book Cover Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community by Elijah Anderson

Streetwise

Book Cover City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States by Ira Katznelson

City Trenches

Book Cover Reconstruction after the Civil War by John Hope Franklin

Reconstruction after the Civil War