University of Chicago Press

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37 Publications Found

Curvy Girl Summer
Curvy Girl Summer
Danielle Allen
Jun 2024
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography (First Edition, Criti
Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
Freeman’s Challenge
Robin Bernstein
May 2024
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War
The Blue Period
Jesse McCarthy
Apr 2024
Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
Black Scare / Red Scare
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Nov 2023
Justice by Means of Democracy
Justice by Means of Democracy
Danielle Allen
Apr 2023
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
Being Somebody and Black Besides
George Nesbitt
Nov 2021
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
Black Paper
Teju Cole
Oct 2021
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice
Ida B. Wells
May 2020
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Eve L. Ewing
Oct 2018
Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
Evidence of Being
Darius Bost
Dec 2018
The Business of Being a Writer
The Business of Being a Writer
Jane Friedman
Mar 2018
Education and Equality
Education and Equality
Danielle Allen
Jun 2016
The Racial Order
The Racial Order
Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
Aug 2015
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
In a Shade of Blue
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
May 2014
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography Of Countee Cullen
And Bid Him Sing
Charles Molesworth
Oct 2012
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
The Truly Disadvantaged
William Julius Wilson
Jul 2012
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
The Declining Significance of Race
William Julius Wilson
Jun 2012
My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War
My Father’s Name
Lawrence P. Jackson
May 2012
Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
Troubling Vision
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Jan 2011
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
On the Fireline
Matthew Desmond
Aug 2009
Alain L. Locke: The Biography Of A Philosopher
Alain L. Locke
Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
Dec 2008
Richard Wright: The Life and Times
Richard Wright
Hazel Rowley
Feb 2008
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education
Talking to Strangers
Danielle Allen
Nov 2006
A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries)
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
Black, White, and in Color
Hortense J. Spillers
Apr 2003
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
Is It Nation Time?
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Apr 2002
The Bloodworth Orphans (Phoenix Fiction)
There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Phoenix Fiction)
Edison: Inventing the Century
Edison
Neil Baldwin
Apr 2001
Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
Black Picket Fences
Mary Pattillo-McCoy
Nov 2000
Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
Exodus!
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Mar 2000
The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience
The Power of Babel
Ali Mazrui
Aug 1998
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
Black Metropolis
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
Aug 1993
Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community
Streetwise
Elijah Anderson
Nov 1992
City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
City Trenches
Ira Katznelson
Nov 1982
Reconstruction after the Civil War
Reconstruction after the Civil War
John Hope Franklin
Jan 1961

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