University of Illinois Press

An Imprint of University of Illinois Press

39 Publications Found

Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
Fear of a Black Republic
Leslie M. Alexander
Dec 2022
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
Knowing Him by Heart
Fred Lee Hord
Dec 2022
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora
The Poetics of Difference
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Oct 2021
Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora
Autochthonomies
Myriam J. A. Chancy
Mar 2020
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.
E. James West
Feb 2020
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital
Black Sexual Economies
Adrienne D. Davis and BSE Collective
Aug 2019
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
Hannah Durkin
Aug 2019
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Beyond Respectability
Brittney Cooper
May 2017
Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Colored No More
Treva B. Lindsey
Mar 2017
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America
Connexions
Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan
Sep 2016
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy
Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (New Black Studies Series)
Word Warrior
Sonja D Williams
Aug 2015
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone
Caribbean Spaces
Carole Boyce-Davies
Oct 2013
Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle
Black Revolutionary
Gerald Horne
Sep 2013
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr.
Jun 2012
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
Rebels and Runaways
Larry Eugene Rivers
Jun 2012
African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861
African or American?
Leslie M. Alexander
Dec 2011
Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia
Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe
Daina Ramey Berry
Jun 2010
Divas On Screen: Black Women In American Film
Divas On Screen
Mia Mask
Jul 2009
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne
Carole C. Marks
Jun 2009
Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
Black Maverick
David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito
Apr 2009
Use Trouble
Use Trouble
Michael S. Harper
Mar 2009
Black Moods: Collected Poems
Black Moods
Frank Marshall Davis
Jun 2007
African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids
African Americans in the Furniture City
Randal Maurice Jelks
Mar 2006
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance
Controlling the Silver (Illinois Poetry Series)
Complete Poems
Complete Poems
Claude McKay
Jan 2004
The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930
The Splendid Drunken Twenties
Carl Van Vechten
Sep 2003
Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power
Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems
Songlines in Michaeltree
Michael S. Harper
Jun 2002
The Militant South, 1800-1861
The Militant South, 1800-1861
John Hope Franklin
Mar 2002
Turn Thanks: POEMS
Turn Thanks
Lorna Goodison
Apr 1999
Mandy Oxendine
Mandy Oxendine
Victor Séjour
Sep 1997
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston
Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom
Deborah G. Plant
Oct 1995
Honorable Amendments: Poems
Honorable Amendments
Michael S. Harper
Oct 1995
Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62
Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender
Langston Hughes
Jul 1995
To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: POEMS (Illinois Poetry)
To Us, All Flowers Are Roses
Lorna Goodison
Jun 1995