41 Books by University of Chicago Press

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Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
The Racial Order
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Phoenix Fiction)
Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War
Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
Edison: Inventing the Century
Miles Davis and American Culture
Reconstruction after the Civil War
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography Of Ida B. Wells
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
Alain L. Locke: The Biography Of A Philosopher
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Rights Volume 1
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography Of Countee Cullen
City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
The Business of Being a Writer
Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
The Bloodworth Orphans (Phoenix Fiction)
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography (First Edition, Criti
Curvy Girl Summer
The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience
A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries)
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
Richard Wright: The Life and Times
Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War
Justice by Means of Democracy
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
Education and Equality