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Columbia University Press

A Part of Columbia University

24 Books Published

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Publications List

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem
Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World
Hubert Harrison The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927
Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (Anniversary)
From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
May 2014
Hubert Harrison The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1931-1954
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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Robert G. O’Meally
Jun 2004
Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
A Covenant With Color: Race And Social Power In Brooklyn
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
Robert G. O’Meally
Dec 1998
Black Leadership
Black Leadership
Manning Marable
Mar 1998