27 Publications from University of Illinois Press an Imprint of University of Illinois Press

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Book Cover Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln by Fred Lee Hord

Knowing Him by Heart

Book Cover The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

The Poetics of Difference

Book Cover Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora by Myriam J. A. Chancy

Autochthonomies

Book Cover Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West

Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.

Book Cover Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper

Beyond Respectability

Book Cover Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (New Black Studies Series) by Sonja D Williams

Word Warrior

Book Cover Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire

Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian

Book Cover Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone by Carole Boyce-Davies

Caribbean Spaces

Book Cover Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle by Gerald Horne

Black Revolutionary

Book Cover The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series) by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr.

The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)

Book Cover Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida by Larry Eugene Rivers

Rebels and Runaways

Book Cover Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia by Daina Ramey Berry

Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe

Book Cover Divas On Screen: Black Women In American Film by Mia Mask

Divas On Screen

Book Cover Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne by Carole C. Marks

Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne

Book Cover Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power by David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito

Black Maverick

Book Cover African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids by Randal Maurice Jelks

African Americans in the Furniture City

Book Cover Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance by Joyce Moore Turner

Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance

Book Cover Controlling the Silver (Illinois Poetry Series) by Lorna Goodison

Controlling the Silver (Illinois Poetry Series)

Book Cover Complete Poems by Claude McKay

Complete Poems

Book Cover The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930 by Carl Van Vechten

The Splendid Drunken Twenties

Book Cover Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power by Leonard N. Moore

Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power

Book Cover The Militant South, 1800-1861 by John Hope Franklin

The Militant South, 1800-1861

Book Cover Turn Thanks: POEMS by Lorna Goodison

Turn Thanks

Book Cover Mandy Oxendine by Victor Séjour

Mandy Oxendine

Book Cover Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston by Deborah G. Plant

Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom

Book Cover Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62 by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender

Book Cover To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: POEMS (Illinois Poetry) by Lorna Goodison

To Us, All Flowers Are Roses