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There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to disregard them. The true significance of this hidden history has gone unseen—until now. The surprising catalyst occurred in the nineteenth century when the Caucasian War—the fight for independence in the Caucasus that coincided with the end of the US Civil War—revealed the instability of the entire regime of racial domination. Images of the Caucasus region and peoples captivated the American public but also showed that the place from which we derive “Caucasian” for whiteness was not white at all. Read more at Harvard University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/propheticperil monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b805929e-f38c-4d16-a188-a8b056fc61a7/F8_cover.jpg library - Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives - Thomas M. Fuerst University Press of Mississippi Prophecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the biblical and African American traditions, this person receives a “call” to prophetic ministry that upends their reality and compels them to change the way things are. Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives invites readers into the imaginative, subversive, and ethically complicated stories of four nineteenth-century Black figures who received the call to challenge the what is and live into the what could be in the midst of a hard-hearted world. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/undivided monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0752cfe2-015d-493e-8cbe-7f295b50c0bc/H1_cover.jpg library - Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church - Hahrie Han Alfred A. Knopf In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters also passed a ballot initiative for universal preschool. The margin was so large that many who elected Trump must have—paradoxically—also voted for the initiative: how could the same citizens support such philosophically disparate aims? What had convinced residents of this Midwestern, Rust Belt community to raise their own taxes to provide early childhood education focused on the poorest—and mostly Black—communities? Read more at Alfred A. Knopf https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/physiciansforthepeople monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d138ebcb-97ab-4b7f-b461-8c258912ea89/E3_cover.jpg library - Physicians for the People: Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970 - Jack D. Ellis The University of Alabama Press Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by establishing hospitals and clinics and providing vital healthcare to underserved Black communities. Read more at The University of Alabama Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/rosesindecember monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b33520e3-3f69-4af8-a4a6-6b593544a709/A4_cover.jpg library - Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights - Jody Lynn Allen University of Virginia Press Beginning in the era of Reconstruction and ending with desegregation, Jody Lynn Allen chronicles the lives of newly freed people and their descendants in Hanover County, Virginia, providing an unprecedented look at rural Black Virginians’ resilience after disfranchisement. In the century between 1865 and 1965, Black residents of Hanover County embraced liberty as they organized for education, employment, and religious freedom, and built a community that flourished in the face of white retrenchment and day-to-day oppression. Read more at University of Virginia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/radicaladvocate monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/80001c69-10b2-40f7-85c4-222c0c06d7fc/T5_cover.jpg library - Radical Advocate: Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice - Mary E. Triece The University of Alabama Press Born into the brutal reality of slavery, Ida B. Wells rose to become an audacious journalist, teacher, and activist for racial and gender justice. In Radical Advocate, Mary E. Triece examines the rhetorical strategies employed by Wells to challenge deeply rooted systems of oppression, strategies that remain powerful and relevant today. By examining Wells’s work through the lens of philosophy, rhetoric, and Black feminism, Triece underscores the epistemic challenges faced by marginalized advocates and the importance of their perspectives in shaping social change. Read more at The University of Alabama Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/searchingforjimmiestrother monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2cc4dcfe-5475-4903-90bd-17a0d4875806/K4_cover.jpg library - Searching for Jimmie Strother: A Tale of Music, Murder, and Memory - Gregg D. Kimball University of Virginia Press/Rivanna In June 1936 James Lee Strother performed thirteen songs at the Virginia State Prison Farm for famed folklorist John Lomax and the Library of Congress. Rooted in the rich soil of the Piedmont region, Strother’s repertoire epitomized the Black songsters who defy easy classification. Blinded in a steel mill explosion, which only intensified his drive to connect to the world through song, Strother drew on old spirituals and country breakdowns as readily as he explored emerging genres like blues and ragtime. Biographer Gregg Kimball revives this elusive but singular talent and the creative and historical worlds in which his dramatic life unfolded. Musician, murderer, and beloved family member—Strother somehow played each of these roles, and more. Read more at University of Virginia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/wichitablues monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a86356dc-2058-4997-8ea4-5edec68b947a/O1_cover.jpg library - Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community - Patrick Joseph O'Connor University Press of Mississippi In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now, little attention has been paid to the Midwest, despite the presence and popularity of blues in these heartland communities. Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community seeks to address this gap in music history. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/oursouth monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/21d89686-77a7-40d6-a769-a8c5190a2506/S4_cover.jpg library - Our South: Black Food Through My Lens - Ashleigh Shanti Union Square & Co. In Our South, Ashleigh takes you through the five regions closest to her heart, beginning with a glimpse of mountain life in the Backcountry through recipes like Fish Camp Hush Puppies and quail spiked with black pepper. A swing over to the coastal Lowcountry fills your plate with smoky grilled oysters and benne seed–topped crab toasts. Seasonal produce shines in the Midlands, where bountiful stone fruits enrich dishes from shortcakes to salads. Lowlands nods to the diversity of food cultures that meet in the region, where Ashleigh grew up eating noodle dishes like Virginia yock alongside Southern classics like Brunswick stew. The book culminates in Homeland, with foods that share what it’s like to cook—and live—as a Black Southern chef now. Read more at Union Square & Co. https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/lovewhiskey monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/6940fbd8-1b3f-413e-b06c-9c18c94c4443/W6_cover.jpg library - Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest - Fawn Weaver Melcher Media Set against the backdrop of Lynchburg, Tennessee, this narrative weaves together a thrilling blend of personal discovery, historical investigation, and the revelation of a story long overshadowed by time. Through extensive research, personal interviews, and the uncovering of long-buried documents, Weaver brings to light not only the remarkable bond between Nearest Green and Jack Daniel but also Daniel’s concerted efforts during his lifetime to ensure Green’s legacy would not be forgotten. This deep respect for his teacher, mentor, and friend was mirrored in Jack’s dedication to ensuring that the stories and achievements of Nearest Green’s descendants, who continued the tradition of working side by side with Jack and his descendants, would also not be forgotten. Read more https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/throughjamaicanlenses monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/fcaf5b67-e2c8-49b5-bf1f-509cc73cb6ff/K3_cover.jpg library - Through Jamaican Lenses: A Memoir - Fern June Khan University Press of Mississippi Born and raised on the island of Jamaica, Fern June Khan has valued and embraced Jamaica in each stage of her life. Despite the island’s economic and educational challenges during her youth, Khan’s childhood was a colorful one, replete with the vibrant culture of the island, endlessly supportive role models, and a complex social tapestry. Her early experiences empowered Khan to develop an unwavering sense of self as she progressed into adulthood and moved to the United States. Through Jamaican Lenses: A Memoir celebrates Khan’s joyful upbringing, journey to a new environment, and her many educational and professional accomplishments. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/theinternalcolony monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ffe7b2ab-8367-4d2a-a92c-416b72dd4a22/K5_cover.jpg library - The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization - Sam Klug University of Chicago Press In The Internal Colony, Sam Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global decolonization to the divergence between mainstream liberalism and the Black freedom movement in postwar America. Klug reconsiders what has long been seen as a matter of primarily domestic policy in light of a series of debates concerning self-determination, postcolonial economic development, and the meanings of colonialism and decolonization. These debates deeply influenced the discord between Black activists and state policymakers and formed a crucial dividing line in national politics in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more at University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/noonegetstofallapart monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1746479008327-RMMNI2A58FYEROLYZA1L/L1_cover.jpg library - No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir - Sarah LaBrie HarperCollins On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness. Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/freedomsoldiers monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/e8cd2373-3814-480d-93d4-7f8d136ee544/L2_cover.jpg library - Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons - Jonathan Lande Oxford University Press Almost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet, even after enlisting, their journeys for liberation continued amid the bloody civil war. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal punishment meted out by white officers. They also agonized over families still enslaved and suffered virulent diseases. Many grew disillusioned, disgruntled, or homesick. They fought on bravely, yet thousands also ran. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/seasonsatlakesidedairy monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2a83ac60-43f6-4b45-a1ca-6c646259db2f/L3_cover.jpg library - Seasons at Lakeside Dairy: Family Stories from a Black-Owned Dairy, Louisiana to California and Beyond - Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins University Press of Mississippi Opened in 1907 in Shreveport, Louisiana, by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins’s grandfather, Black dairy farmer Angus Bates, Lakeside Dairy was a rarity in the post-Reconstruction South. The dairy thrived despite the time's challenging, racially oppressive, and hostile social and political climate. While Lakeside Dairy closed in 1943, Angus’s life and work legacy echoed through the Bates family for generations. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/reimaginingtherevolution monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/14119c22-070b-4a26-a0f0-d4bf0d7d817d/L4_cover.jpg library - Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement - Paula Lehman-Ewing North Atlantic Books A lot of books about racial justice ask us how we got here, but Reimagining the Revolution is different: award-winning journalist and activist Paula Lehman-Ewing presents an inside-access look at the activists redefining where we go from here. Lehman-Ewing frames each profile within two fundamental truths: The current system—built and sustained by oppression, extraction, and inequity by design—cannot be reformed. And, knowing this, we need abolition; we need creative solutions designed by the people most impacted by the systems they fight to change. Reimagining the Revolution is a call to action for each of us: if we can access the tools we have, we can dream bigger, think outside the box, and follow the paths laid out by change-making activists toward nothing short of revolution. Read more at North Atlantic Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thestainedglasswindow monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/87886b2c-13cc-4df3-b46f-13532b64d7eb/L5_cover.jpg library - The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 - David Levering Lewis Penguin Random House/Penguin Press Sitting beneath a stained glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, preeminent American historian David Levering Lewis was struck by the great lacunae in what he could know about his own ancestors. He vowed to excavate their past and tell their story. There is no singular American story. Yet the Lewis family contains many defining ones. David Levering Lewis’s lineage leads him to the Kings and Belvinses, two white slaveholding families in Georgia; to the Bells, a free persons of color slaveholding family in South Carolina; and to the Lewises, an up-from-slavery black family in Georgia. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/lateadmissions monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/91ef6826-35b5-46d1-8553-713128a80fc4/L6_cover.jpg library - Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative - Glenn Loury W. W. Norton & Company Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he’s often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what’s expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves—on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism—his public life has been characterized by fearlessness and a willingness to recalibrate strongly held and forcefully argued beliefs. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/theblackutopians monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f09df090-1afc-430a-b1ea-ea234cf56629/R2_cover.jpg library - The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America - Aaron Robertson Farrar, Straus and Giroux How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in other words, does utopia look like in black? These questions animate Aaron Robertson’s exploration of Black Americans' efforts to remake the conditions of their lives. Writing in the tradition of Saidiya Hartman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robertson makes his way from his ancestral hometown of Promise Land, Tennessee, to Detroit—the city where he was born, and where one of the country’s most remarkable Black utopian experiments got its start. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/resist monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/775d78f9-e2db-4ff5-8a27-0b9ade1405a7/O2_cover.jpg library - Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America - Rita Omokha Macmillan/St. Martin's Press Growing up as a Nigerian immigrant in the South Bronx, award-winning journalist Rita Omokha contended with her Blackness. In 2020, when George Floyd died at the hands of a white police officer, her exploration further developed as she traveled to thirty states attempting to mine contemporary race relations in the United States. In Resist, Omokha charts the last century of civil rights activism, from the early years of renowned activist Ella Baker and others she inspired, to the first glimpse of allyship in the Bates Seven and a renewed examination of the Black Panther Party, all the way to the current generation of young Black revolutionaries who walked American cities in the wake of the murders of countless Black people. Read more at MacMillan https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/povertyrebels monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/63d4995f-c9c6-4f86-b96d-08690d445501/N2_cover.jpg library - Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America - Casey D. Nichols University of North Carolina Press In 1960s Los Angeles, a powerful network within Black and Chicana/o organizations transformed the War on Poverty and Model Cities program. Black and Brown activists worked together and separately to use the US federal government's War on Poverty as an opportunity to establish programs that would counteract the neglect that led to underfunded schools, inadequate housing, and a lack of community institutions. Casey Nichols examines this diverse group of intentional and unintentional collaborators she calls "poverty rebels," which included politicians, activists, youth, professionals, community members, and local people. Poverty rebels leveraged federal antipoverty funding to work around the limited capacity of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to address the dual impact of race and class in African American and Mexican American communities. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/freedomsmirage monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ed26bef8-0f1e-4af4-93ac-ae9e1eaf80e8/N1_cover.jpeg.jpg library - Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile - Sydney Nathans University of North Carolina Press Freedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people alike. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thewhiteperil monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2fdfed24-f1e4-4b53-a97d-4900f20c80d9/M7_cover.jpg library - The White Peril: A Family Memoir - Omo Moses Beacon Press From the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: an unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family. In The White Peril, Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather’s sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/folkmusicandsong monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d1694a6c-e659-4a49-9a5d-e5124d4bf106/M6_cover.jpg library - Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives - John Minton University Press of Mississippi Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages of still unedited and inadequately indexed typescript. These accounts—the WPA ex-slave narratives—are the most substantial collection by far of folklore and oral history gathered directly from enslaved people in America. It is arguably the single greatest body of African American folklore extant, and a significant portion is devoted to folk music and song. This book considers this treasure trove in all its relevant social, cultural, and historical contexts. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/nightflyer monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/c2d7eb98-cc43-4891-9933-65807f3c9db5/M5_cover.jpg library - Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People - Tiya Miles Penguin Random House/Penguin Press Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite being barely five feet tall, unable to read, and suffering from a brain injury, she managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some seven hundred people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thesecondbattleforafrica monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/7767dbd4-7fe9-4393-a5a8-2849a9e5935d/M4_cover.jpg library - The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom - Erik S. McDuffie Duke University Press Erik S. McDuffie explores Garveyism and its changing facets from the 1920s onward, including the role of Black midwesterners during the emergence of fascism in the 1930s, the postwar US Black Freedom Movement and African decolonization, the rise of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X in the 1950s and 1960s, and the continuing legacy of Garvey in today’s Black Midwest. Throughout, McDuffie evaluates the possibilities, limitations, and gendered contours of Black nationalism, radicalism, and internationalism in the UNIA and Garvey-inspired movements. In so doing, he unveils new histories of Black liberation and Global Africa. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/insatiablecity monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b412e759-be9e-41c0-b60b-8f2c53ba9dcd/M3_cover.jpg library - Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans - Theresa McCulla University of Chicago Press In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city significantly defined by its foodways. Tracking the city’s economy from nineteenth-century chattel slavery to twentieth-century tourism, McCulla uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, postcards, photography, and other material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people. The consumption of food and people, she shows, was mutually reinforced and deeply intertwined. Read more at University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/theblueperiod monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/dac75396-f9fa-4854-9cdb-2b926f25acb0/M2_cover.jpg library - The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War - Jesse McCarthy University of Chicago Press In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States was a global one—an ideological battle that dominated almost every aspect of the cultural agenda. On the one hand was the Soviet Union, espousing revolutionary communism that promised egalitarianism while being hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand was the United States, a country steeped in racial prejudice and the policies of Jim Crow. Black writers of this time were equally alienated from the left and the right, McCarthy argues, and they channeled that alienation into remarkable experiments in literary form. Read more at University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thepreciousbirthright monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/40ce3193-17a1-491e-a11b-af1cb3b578d5/M1_cover.jpg library - The Precious Birthright: Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island - CJ Martin University of Massachusetts Press In 1842, Black Rhode Islanders secured a stunning victory, a success rarely seen in antebellum America: they won the right to vote. Amid heightened public discourse around shifting ideas of race, citizenship, and political rights, they methodically deconstructed the arguments against their enfranchisement, exposing the arbitrariness of the color line in delineating citizenship rights and choosing the perfect moments in which to act forcefully. By investigating their tactics, Martin deepens the story of how race played a crucial role in American citizenship, and by focusing on Black leadership, he relates this history through the people who lived it—who thought, debated, petitioned, and enacted their own liberation. Read more at University of Massachusetts Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/fromtheprojects monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/bf8dbd28-0254-4632-aa76-1c1648e693e6/L7_cover.jpg library - From the Projects to the Presidencies: My Journey to Higher Education Leadership - James E. Lyons Sr. University Press of Mississippi Raised in a public housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, James E. Lyons Sr. overcame the difficult circumstances of his childhood to flourish academically, eventually becoming president of six universities. From the Projects to the Presidencies: My Journey to Higher Education Leadership charts Lyons’s personal and educational journey, from saving money for college by shining shoes in front of Yale University at fifteen to returning to the same building thirty-seven years later as president of Jackson State. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/aforgottenmigration monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a5fd72f0-9efc-4aa7-bb82-ac2f9bdb8efb/S1_cover.jpeg.jpg library - A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs - Crystal R. Sanders University of North Carolina Press A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of "segregation scholarships" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre–Brown v. Board of Education era. Under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, decades earlier, southern states could provide graduate opportunities for African Americans by creating separate but equal graduate programs at tax-supported Black colleges or by admitting Black students to historically white institutions. Most did neither and instead paid to send Black students out of state for graduate education. Crystal R. Sanders examines Black graduate students who relocated to the North, Midwest, and West to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/jameshudson monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/fe0358b5-60db-4494-9f30-4e52122825b6/R1_cover.jpg library - James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights - Larry Omar Rivers University Press of Florida While intellectual histories of the civil rights movement often center Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings, author Larry Omar Rivers argues that this approach leaves out the scholar-activists who set the path for King. In this volume, Rivers tells the mostly unknown story of James Hudson (1903–1980), a Black philosopher, Florida A&M University professor, activist, and religious leader whose philosophical contributions laid a key piece of the groundwork for the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thewoundsarethewitness monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/69062e6f-eee9-4c34-8a0a-71583618a6eb/P8_cover.jpg library - The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory into Justice and Healing - Yolanda Pierce Augsburg Fortress Publisher/Broadleaf Books What do we do with wounds--our own, others', and a nation's? We can turn away, avert our gaze. We can make a spectacle of suffering. Or like the doubting disciple who longed to touch Jesus's side, we can acquaint ourselves with the wounds: both the story they tell and the healing they prefigure. In The Wounds Are the Witness, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of In My Grandmother's House, weaves together her own memories, vignettes from Black life, and scenes from scripture. To work for liberation in a broken world, we cannot look away from crucified flesh. Bones from the Middle Passage, GI Bill benefits denied to Black veterans, women inmates shackled while giving birth: we must take all such wounds seriously. They testify to both the pain and the faith of a people. Read more at Broadleaf Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dismantlingthemastersclock monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755879194106-7237NNEZ26D6JLHPB5TN/phillips_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time - Rasheedah Phillips AK Press Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations. Read more at AK Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blackpantherwoman monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0e8cfe6f-051f-476a-85a1-4d7dbddd26f7/P6_cover.jpg library - Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins - Mary Frances Phillips New York University Press In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as well as a mother, widow, educator, poet, and former political prisoner. In 1969, the police arrested Ericka Huggins along with Bobby Seale and fellow Black Panther Party members, who were accused of murdering Alex Rackley. This marked the beginning of her ordeal, as she became the subject of political persecution and a well-planned FBI COINTELPRO plot. Drawing on never-before-seen archival sources, including prison records, unpublished letters, photographs, FBI records, and oral histories, Phillips foregrounds the paramount role of self-care and community care in Huggins’s political journey, shedding light on Ericka’s use of spiritual wellness practices she developed during her incarceration. In showcasing this history, Phillips reveals the significance of spiritual wellness in the Black Panther Party and Black Power movement. Read more at New York University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blackinblues monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f0204e9b-83ff-4399-aacf-726dd6ceb540/P5_cover.jpg library - Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People - Imani Perry HarperCollins/Ecco Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for that which lies beyond the current conditions. But blue is also the color of deep melancholy and heartache, echoing Louis Armstrong’s question, “What did I do to be so Black and blue?” In this book, celebrated author Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color as a springboard for a riveting emotional, cultural, and spiritual journey—an examination of race and Blackness that transcends politics or ideology. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/somwheretowardfreedom monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ac104a56-6a56-47a6-96f6-5558a2dec906/P3_cover.jpg library - Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation - Bennett Parten Simon & Schuster In the fall of 1864, Gen. William T. Sherman led his army through Atlanta, Georgia, burning buildings of military significance—and ultimately most of the city—along the way. From Atlanta, they marched across the state to the most important city at the time: Savannah. In Somewhere Toward Freedom, historian Bennett Parten helps us understand how Sherman’s March impacted the war, and what it meant to the enslaved, but also reveals how it laid the foundation for the fledging efforts of Reconstruction. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/toadvancetherace monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/6967c638-9b31-43ac-9eed-0e4eca8808c6/P4_cover.jpg library - To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s - Linda M. Perkins University of Illinois Press Linda M. Perkins’s study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and the establishment of abolitionist colleges, Perkins follows the history of Black women's post–Civil War experiences at elite white schools and public universities in northern and midwestern states. Their presence in Black institutions like Howard University marked another advancement, as did Black women becoming professors and administrators. But such progress intersected with race and education in the postwar era. As gender questions sparked conflict between educated Black women and Black men, it forced the former to contend with traditional notions of women’s roles even as the 1960s opened educational opportunities for all African Americans. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/malcolmbeforex monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2d720526-da8d-4972-b72a-9eba9d5b651f/P2_cover.jpg library - Malcolm Before X - Patrick Parr University of Massachusetts Press Patrick Parr’s Malcolm Before X provides a comprehensive and groundbreaking examination of the first twenty-seven years of Malcolm X’s life (1925–1965). Parr traces Malcolm’s African lineage, explores his complicated childhood in the Midwest, and follows him as he moves east to live with his sister Ella in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Parr utilizes a trove of previously overlooked documents that include prison files and prison newspapers to immerse the reader into the unique cultures—at times brutal and at times instructional—of Charlestown State Prison, the Concord Reformatory, and the Norfolk Prison Colony. It was at these institutions that Malcolm devoured books, composed poetry, boxed, debated, and joined the Nation of Islam, changing the course of his life and setting the stage for a decade of antiracist activism that would fundamentally reshape American culture. Read more at University of Massachusetts Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thepoolisclosed monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2a0f22c8-022b-4045-89d4-951d695dd36e/P1_cover.jpg library - The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim - Hannah S. Palmer LSU Press In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about how her young sons would learn to swim. Would they grow up accustomed to the stubbornly segregated pools of Atlanta? Was it safe for them to wade in creeks laced with urban runoff or dive into the ever-warming, man-made swimming holes of the South? Should they just join the Y? But these weren’t just parenting questions. In the South, how we swim—and whether we have access to water at all—is tied up in race and class. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/themontiers monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4ec27ce5-6e53-4bca-a258-f782ede0950c/S2_cover.jpg library - The Montiers: From Enslavement to Paul Robeson and Beyond - Donald Scott Sr. Casemate Publishers/Brookline Books The African-American Montier family traces its roots to the British-born Caucasian son of Philadelphia’s first mayor, Richard Morrey, who had a relationship with Cremona, a young woman who had been enslaved by the Morrey family, resulting in five mixed-race children. Before his death, Richard would pass to Cremona 200 acres of land, giving her an almost unique position in 18th-century Philadelphia. On this land a small Black town known as Guineatown would grow up, with an associated cemetery. Cremona’s descendants and luminaries associated with the family include Cyrus Bustill, a black activist and baker who made bread for the Continental Army; David Bustill Bowser, a 19th-century activist who designed and created the colors for eleven African-American regiments at Camp William Penn; the great Paul Robeson, renowned scholar, lawyer, diplomat, athlete, singer, and actor; and William Pickens, Sr., a co-founder of the NAACP. Read more at Brookline Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/schoolingthenation monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/892ad896-7844-41ca-a58c-15f74b5f11a4/R8_cover.jpg library - Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women - Jennifer Rycenga University of Illinois Press Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandall, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal action to pursue their studies, but the school of higher learning flourished until a vigilante attack destroyed the Academy. Jennifer Rycenga recovers a pioneering example of antiracism and Black-white cooperation. At once an inspirational and cautionary tale, Canterbury Academy succeeded thanks to far-reaching networks, alliances, and activism that placed it within Black, women’s, and abolitionist history. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blackwomenlegacies monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9f419051-d534-4755-8ceb-57376e9e78b2/R7_cover.jpg library - Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen - Alexandria Russell University of Illinois Press From Black clubwomen to members of preservation organizations, African American women have made commemoration a central part of Black life and culture. Alexandria Russell illuminates the process of memorialization while placing African American women at the center of memorials they brought into being and others constructed in their honor. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/americandarkage monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/7957dd90-f21d-43f1-87e9-15fec3382cb3/R6_cover.jpg library - American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism - Keidrick Roy Princeton University Press Though the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World. What they saw was a racially stratified country that reflected not the ideals of a modern republic but rather the remnants of feudalism. American Dark Age reveals how defenders of racial hierarchy embraced America’s resemblance to medieval Europe and tells the stories of the abolitionists who exposed it as a glaring blemish on the national conscience. Read more at Princeton University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/apassionatemindinrelentlesspursuit monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/778b97c2-99d0-47eb-9d7e-dff36b388eb2/R5_cover.jpg library - A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune - Noliwe Rooks Penguin Random House/Penguin Press When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black American whose statue stands in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol, and yet for most, she remains a marble figure from the dim past. Now, seventy years later, Noliwe Rooks turns Bethune from stone to flesh, showing her to have been a visionary leader with lessons to still teach us as we continue on our journey toward a freer and more just nation. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/plantationgoods monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a60491d4-8af6-4e64-b4f1-00fcb64bc4e6/R4_cover.jpg library - Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery - Seth Rockman University of Chicago Press The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’s how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery’s long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South. Using plantation goods—the shirts, hats, hoes, shovels, shoes, axes, and whips made in the North for use in the South—historian Seth Rockman locates the biggest stories in American history in the everyday objects that stitched together the lives and livelihoods of Americans—white and Black, male and female, enslaved and free—across an expanding nation. Read more at University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/pressingforward monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/29852eef-d2f7-4d64-921f-fc428d879992/R3_cover.jpg library - Pressing Forward: My Life as a Baton Rouge Community Pioneer - Press L. Robinson, Sr. LSU Press In this down-to-earth memoir, longtime educator and community leader Press L. Robinson Sr. recounts his hardscrabble childhood in South Carolina, his education at Morehouse College and Howard University, his career as a professor and administrator in the Southern University system, and his activities as a community leader in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The first elected Black member of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, Robinson consistently fought to level the playing fields for Black Americans and to better the social and physical environment of his adopted city. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/makingsenseofslavery monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/bc6ada18-ce3f-4f9a-bb94-1ec11d5d1e83/S9_cover.jpg library - Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today - Scott Spillman Basic Books Group/ Hachette Book Group In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ought to be taught, researched, and narrated. But since the earliest days of the Republic, political leaders, abolitionists, judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens have all struggled to explain and understand the peculiar institution. In Making Sense of Slavery, historian Scott Spillman shows that the study of slavery was a vital catalyst for the broader development of American intellectual life and politics. In contexts ranging from the plantation fields to the university classroom, Americans interpreted slavery and its afterlives through many lenses, shaping the trajectory of disciplines from economics to sociology, from psychology to history. Spillman delves deeply into the archives, and into the pathbreaking work of scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Annette Gordon-Reed, to trace how generations of Americans have wrestled with the paradox of slavery in a country founded on principles of liberty and equality. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/youcantkillamanbecauseofthebooks monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2f65f111-e949-4e0d-9267-7307de63deae/S8_cover.jpg library - You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech - Brad Snyder W. W. Norton & Company Decades before the impeachment of an American president for a similar offense, Angelo Herndon was charged under Georgia law with “attempting to incite insurrection”—a crime punishable by death. In 1932, the eighteen-year-old Black Communist Party organizer was arrested and had his room illegally searched and his radical literature seized. Charged under an old slave insurrection statute, Herndon was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to eighteen to twenty years on a chain gang. You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads chronicles Herndon’s five-year quest for freedom during a time when Blacks, white liberals, and the radical left joined forces to define the nation’s commitment to civil rights and civil liberties. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/inwiththeincrowd monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/6550b4b3-ee77-4dce-970c-e0d8b9ce21af/S7_cover.jpg library - In with the In Crowd : Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America - Mike Smith University Press of Mississippi Most studies of 1960s jazz underscore the sounds of famous avant-garde musicians like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Albert Ayler. Conspicuously absent from these narratives are the more popular jazz artists of the decade that electrified dance clubs, permeated radio waves, and released top-selling records. Names like Eddie Harris, Nancy Wilson, Ramsey Lewis, and Jimmy Smith are largely neglected in most serious work today. Mike Smith rectifies this oversight and explores why critical writings have generally cast off best-selling 1960s jazz as unworthy of in-depth analysis and reverent documentation. In an era marked by turmoil and struggle, popular jazz offered a powerful outlet for joy, resilience, pride, and triumph. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/brooklynites monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/8fab0a09-5375-4b1d-9ba2-99cf7a3a0152/K2_cover.jpg library - Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough - Prithi Kanakamedala New York University Press Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation’s third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of life—businesswomen, church leaders, laborers, and writers—who sought to grow their city in a radical anti-slavery vision. The residents organized and agitated for social justice. They did so even as their own freedom was threatened by systemic and structural racism, risking their safety for the sake of their city. Brooklynites recovers the lives of these remarkable citizens and considers their lasting impact on New York City’s most populous borough. Read more at New York University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/theblacktax monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cbd8abb7-d4a8-4865-8f0d-1c34224ada79/K1_cover.jpg library - The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America - Andrew W. Kahrl University of Chicago Press American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the very people who critically need its support. Not only do taxpayers with fewer resources—less wealth, power, and land—pay more than the well-off, but they are forced to fight for their rights within an unjust system that undermines any attempts to improve their position or economic standing. In The Black Tax, Andrew W. Kahrl reveals the shocking history and ruinous consequences of inequitable and predatory tax laws in this country—above all, widespread and devastating racial dispossession. Read more at University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thetroubleofcolor monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b85dcd46-2279-4212-9257-6fe45c3f9b0d/J7_cover.jpg library - The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir - Martha S. Jones Basic Books Group, Hachette Book Group Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to speak. Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: “Who do you think you are?” Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/cervantineblackness monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/09d5be23-d10f-4f69-9a39-4cafa35248af/J6_cover.jpg library - Cervantine Blackness - Nicholas R. Jones Penn State University Press There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes’s cultural purview and literary corpus. Read more at Penn State University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/becomingspectacular monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/63f3dcb7-2414-4cd6-8cae-85bb21eb70e5/J5_cover.jpg library - Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette - Jennifer Jones HarperOne/Amistad The Radio City Rockettes are as American as baseball, hot dogs, and the Fourth of July. Their legendary synchronized leg kicks, precise lines, and megawatt smiles have charmed audiences for a century. But there is a hidden side to this illustrious national institution. When the Rockettes began in 1925, Black people were not allowed to dance on stage with white people. However, during the Civil Rights Movement, dance history changed significantly when Black and white dancers were permitted to perform together, marking a moment of progress and inclusivity in the world of dance and entertainment. Even so, as late as the early 1980s, Rockette director Violet Holmes said having “one or two Black girls in the line would definitely distract.” In 1987 the 63-year color barrier at Radio City was finally broken by one brave and tenacious woman. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/werefuse monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/fa00b4fa-7334-45a4-b731-68b7e98fd624/J2_cover.jpg library - We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance - Kellie Carter Jackson Basic Books Group, Hachette Book Group/Seal Press Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary.” In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thelifeandmusicofbookerbukkawhite monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b544ebae-c62d-4bca-afda-ed0faac78fee/J4_cover.jpg library - The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White: Recalling the Blues - David W. Johnson University Press of Mississippi Booker “Bukka” White (1905–1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Booker “Bukka” White: Recalling the Blues, David W. Johnson traces the trajectory of White’s life from his early years in Chickasaw and Grenada Counties, Mississippi, through his imprisonment in the notorious Mississippi State Penal Farm in the late 1930s, to making a new life for himself in Memphis, Tennessee. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/bigger monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b15798f4-2bea-4c1f-abd5-4de246753ecc/H2_cover.jpg library - Bigger: A Literary Life - Trudier Harris Yale University Press Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago, seemingly raping and killing without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life. In this book, distinguished scholar Trudier Harris examines the literary life of Bigger Thomas from his birth to the current day. Harris explores the debates between Black critics and Communist artists in the 1930s and 1940s over the “political novel,” the censorship of Native Son by white publishers, and the work’s initial reception—as well as interpretations from Black feminists and Black Power activists in the decades that followed, up to the novel’s resonance with the Black Lives Matter movement today. Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/mainlinemama monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4b1d9a60-df4b-4925-97ca-e5f8884d290d/H3_cover.jpg library - Mainline Mama: A Memoir - Keeonna Harris HarperCollins/Amistad Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was “grown.” Within a year she was pregnant and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a “mainline mama,” a parent facing the task of raising a child—while still growing up herself—with an incarcerated partner. In this triumphant memoir, Keeonna recalls her challenging journey as a mainline mama, from learning to overcome the exhausting difficulties of navigating the carceral system in the United States to transforming herself into an advocate for women like her—the predominantly Black and Brown women left behind to pick up the pieces of their families and fractured lives. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/chicagohousemusic monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/39617b18-59dd-464a-9d5c-24c80178a773/H4_cover.jpg library - Chicago House Music: Culture and Community - Marguerite L. Harrold Arcadia Publishing Chicago house music originated in the city’s Black, gay underground in the late seventies and became one of the most popular musical genres in the world by the end of the century. In Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite Harrold tells the story of the genre’s rise and the prolific creators who have sustained it for decades. It’s a story about much more than music—it’s about a community struggling for acceptance, love, liberation, and freedom, and about the creative pioneers whose resilience helped turn house music into a worldwide phenomenon. Read more at Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/iamnobodysslave monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4493e868-51f2-42f9-82ea-06ea5977f460/H5_cover.jpg library - I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free - Lee Hawkins HarperCollins Publishers/Arcadia To their suburban Minnesotan neighbors, the Hawkinses were an ideal American family, embodying strength and success. However, behind closed doors, they faced the legacy of enslavement and apartheid. Lee Hawkins, Sr. often exhibited rage, leaving his children anxious and curious about his protective view of the world. Thirty years later, his son uncovered the reasons for his father’s anxiety and occasional violence. Read more at HarperCollins Publishers/Arcadia https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/bigredsmercy monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a7ffff85-4348-4cce-bb31-b9db50f0b681/H6_cover.jpg library - Big Red's Mercy: The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and a Story of Race in America - Mark Hertsgaard Pegasus Books The moving story of a New Orleans woman who fought for justice and her community even amidst one of the city's darkest moments. Charismatic, complicated, and struck down in her prime, Big Red and her heroic life will captivate readers. Read more at Pegasus Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/refusingtobemadewhole monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cbc6dac7-0bb5-40c4-a6b6-4d2bf914b4ad/H7_cover.jpg library - Refusing to be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing - Anna LaQuawn Hinton University Press of Mississippi In Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing, author Anna LaQuawn Hinton examines how contemporary Black women writers present becoming disabled as a traumatic and violent experience of Black womanhood. Nevertheless, Black women embrace disabled Black womanhood by turning to Africanist spiritual understandings of wholeness, which view debilitating injury and illness as not only physical but also spiritual, not just an individual problem but a symptom of discord in the community. Black women use these belief systems to reimagine healing in ways that make space for a variety of bodymindspirits. Hinton maintains that this is not only a major theme in contemporary Black women’s writing but that it also shapes the formal elements characteristic of the Black women’s literary tradition. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/soulfolk monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2eef0067-857d-4c77-84e9-ac3efa8f5940/J1_cover.jpg library - Soul-Folk - Ashawnta Jackson Bloomsbury Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and use it to bring their own traditions to light- the jazz, the blues, the field hollers, the spirituals- creating something wholly new, wholly theirs, wholly ours. This book traces the growing imprints of soul-folk and how it made its way from folk tradition to subgenre. Along the way, it explores the musicians, albums, and histories that made the genre what it is. Read more at Bloomsbury https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/ifwearebrave monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/fe2d3933-22ef-40fe-8c31-be1a0c7d534e/J3_cover.jpg library - If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana - Theodore R. Johnson HarperOne/Armistad “The United States claims to be a nation founded on an idea,” writes Theodore R. Johnson, “but Americans—even though we nod our heads to that assertion—do not agree on what that idea is, what it should do, or who it is for.” If We Are Brave is a sobering examination of this rift and how race exposes and challenges traditional conceptions of national identity, national mythology, and American democracy. Johnson reveals the subtle ways that racialized conceptions of the American identity and the imperfect culture of democracy have hindered our ability to connect with one another, carefully piecing together first-person accounts ranging from a Rust Belt diner to the back of a police car to a jail cell. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/publishedbytheauthor monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/c154fe60-f1c8-48dc-bd40-9b6b247a187b/S6_cover.jpg library - Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature - Bryan Sinche University of North Carolina Press Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. Because nineteenth-century Black Americans knew that publication could empower them, and because they faced numerous challenges getting their writing into print or the literary market, many published their own books and pamphlets in order to garner social, political, or economic rewards. In doing so, these authors nurtured a tradition of creativity and critique that has remained largely hidden from view. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/morningside monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/76002069-6387-43b9-8de8-f0d081920fc4/S5_cover.jpg library - Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul - Aran Shetterly HarperOne/Amistad On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunshots rang out. A caravan of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis sped from the scene, leaving behind five dead. Known as the “Greensboro Massacre,” the event and its aftermath encapsulate the racial conflict, economic anxiety, clash of ideologies, and toxic mix of corruption and conspiracy that roiled American democracy then—and threaten it today. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/maemallory monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/3b3e981b-016b-452d-a29e-ce8d128db3e8/S3_cover.jpg library - Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists - Paula Marie Seniors University of Georgia Press Essential biographical and character narratives are combined with an analysis of the social and political movements of the era and their historical significance. Seniors examines the link between Mallory, Johnson, and Proctor Seniors’s radical activism and their connections to national and international leftist human rights movements and organizations. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blackprisonintellectuals monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ac795c10-06c1-47fc-9eb0-ee76f8149b19/S10_cover.jpg library - Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century - Andrea Stone University Press of Florida In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from early archives to call into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century. In fact, nearly two centuries before Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver, Black prisoners were serving as thought leaders and contributing to political movements. By illuminating their pathbreaking voices, Stone shows that prison writing from this era was a foundational part of Black American intellectualism. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/postracialfantasiesandzombies monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/44515500-e681-4045-93a9-46c04e1f8212/W4_cover.jpg library - Postracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World - Eric King Watts University of California Press Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, preparing the "scientific" and philosophical ground for interpreting zombie lore. The book treats the "Greater Caribbean" as a transformative space in which an antiblack infrastructure arose and interrogates the US's militarized domination of Haiti that was the context in which the zombie emerged. Watts traces variations of the form and function of the zombie to contemplate how it matters to our contemporary struggles with racism and pandemic policies. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/theendofrespectability monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/34754760-848a-41ff-acb2-e44a47140b0f/W3_cover.jpg library - The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation - Anthony Walton Godine Born into the Civil Rights Movement, author Anthony Walton observed firsthand the opening of opportunity for racial reconciliation. He also saw systemic racism and the vicious backlash against Black progress embodied in the Southern Strategy, Tea Party, and MAGA. Over time, Walton came to believe that moving forward requires a “Third Reconstruction” to accomplish what remains: better health outcomes, secure voting rights, and sustained economic and educational opportunity. Only this approach, he believes, will accomplish what remains unfinished for true African American equality. Read more at Godine https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/anotherwordforlove monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755879635549-NCID91RMVN19FWET5X54/wallace_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Another Word for Love: A Memoir - Carvell Wallace Farrar, Straus and Giroux Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America. Wallace is an award-winning journalist who has built his career on writing unforgettable profiles, bringing a provocative and engaged sensitivity to his subjects. Now he turns the focus on himself, examining his own life and the circumstances that frame it. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/aplacetoliveinpeace monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/39c04035-6e4b-4df3-b9ee-ac7da20b60c1/W10_cover.jpg library - A Place to Live in Peace : Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana - Evelyn L. Wilson University Press of Mississippi A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. In the last decade before the Civil War, tensions over slavery in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, led to the separation of free people of color from their white counterparts. But until the 1850s, free people of color had lived and thrived there. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/magicallyblack monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cccf4b55-87f4-44d4-b964-c2a04d542f32/W1_cover.jpg library - Magically Black and Other Essays - Jerald Walker HarperCollins/Amistad In Magically Black and Other Essays Jerald Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique to create a bracing and often humorous examination of Black American life. He thoughtfully addresses the inherent complexities of topics as eclectic as incarceration, home renovations, gentrification, the crip walk, pimping, and the rise of the MAGA movement, approaching them through various Black perspectives, including husband, father, teacher, and writer. The collection’s overarching theme is captured in the titular essay, which examines the culture of heroic action African Americans created in response to their enslavement and oppression, giving proof to Albert Murray’s observation that the “fire in the forging process . . . for all its violence, does not destroy the metal that becomes the sword.” Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/theswansofharlem monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/95d28254-414f-4254-af16-e448bf09c3fa/V1_cover.jpg library - The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History - Karen Valby Penguin Random House/Pantheon Books At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre of Harlem, a troupe of women and men who became each other’s chosen family. She was the first Black company ballerina on the cover of Dance magazine, an Essence cover star; she was cast in The Wiz and in a Bob Fosse production on Broadway. She performed in some of ballet’s most iconic works with other trailblazing ballerinas, including the young women who became her closest friends—founding Dance Theatre of Harlem members Gayle McKinney-Griffith and Sheila Rohan, as well as first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton and Marcia Sells. These Swans of Harlem performed for the Queen of England, Mick Jagger, and Stevie Wonder, on the same bill as Josephine Baker, at the White House, and beyond. But decades later there was almost no record of their groundbreaking history to be found. Out of a sisterhood that had grown even deeper with the years, these Swans joined forces again—to share their story with the world. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/buildingtheblackcity monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755879365717-7M2NJVHYEAP7VO15URQ3/trotter_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life - Joe William Trotter, Jr. University of California Press Building the Black City shows how African Americans built and rebuilt thriving cities for themselves, even as their unpaid and underpaid labor enriched the nation's economic, political, and cultural elites. Covering an incredible range of cities from the North to the South, the East to the West, Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/memorywork monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/c6ebce4c-678a-44ca-b0f3-dd4b896bb8de/T4_cover.jpg library - Memory Work: White Ignorance and Black Resistance in Popular Magazines 1900-1910 - Mary E. Triece University Press of Mississippi Mary E. Triece traces how white and Black magazines—often in dialogue with one another—differently engaged memory work to either reinforce or upend white supremacy during a period of both Black advancement and white backlash. The book suggests lines of connection between the construction of public memory in the past to those taking place today across an array of media platforms. Popular debates—whether appearing in early 1900s magazines or on twenty-first-century social media sites—shape a culture’s collective knowledge of what counts as true, important, and worthy of attention. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thehouseofbeing monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f6e00cc6-5e71-4446-bc2c-6e7b3b19fa5d/T3_cover.jpg library - The House of Being: Why I Write - Natasha Trethewey Yale University Press In a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the crossroads of Highway 49, the legendary highway of the Blues, and Jefferson Street, Natasha Trethewey learned to read and write. Before the land was a crossroads, however, it was a pasture: a farming settlement where, after the Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved women, men, and children made a new home. In this intimate and searching meditation, Trethewey revisits the geography of her childhood to trace the origins of her writing life, born of the need to create new metaphors to inhabit “so that my story would not be determined for me.” Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/amoreperfectparty monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d7d1bf17-8cf9-4a27-a647-2be089e3dd74/T2_cover.jpg library - A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics - Juanita Tolliver Grand Central Publishing/Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group In 1972, New York Representative Shirley Chisholm broke the ice in American politics when she became the first Black woman to run for president of the United States. Chisholm left behind a coalition-building model personified by a once-in-an-era Hollywood party hosted by legendary actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and attended by the likes of Huey P. Newton, Barbara Lee, Berry Gordy, David Frost, Flip Wilson, Goldie Hawn and others. In A More Perfect Party, MSNBC political analyst Juanita Tolliver presents a path to people-centered politics through the lens of this soiree, with surprising parallels to our current electoral reality. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/kingofthenorth monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755879290074-FA42I9IT8E05J60Q7FDL/theoharis_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South - Jeanne Theoharis The New Press The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago—outside Dixie—was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. Read more at The New Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/politicsincaptivity monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/42fcac6a-c923-4c75-af71-acd50b68803a/Z1_cover.jpg library - Politics in Captivity: Plantations, Prisons, and World-Building - Lena Zuckerwise Fordham University Press From the 1811 German Coast Slave Rebellion to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, from the truancy of enslaved women to the extreme self-discipline exercised by prisoners in solitary confinement, Black Americans have, through time, resisted racial regimes in extraordinary and everyday ways. Though these acts of large and small-scale resistance to slavery and incarceration are radical and transformative, they have often gone unnoticed. This book is about Black rebellion in captivity and the ways that many of the conventional well-worn constructs of academic political theory render its political dimensions obscure and indiscernible. Read more at Fordham University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/insilenceorindifference monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0f76da11-49f8-4418-ada5-655417b9ce5d/W9_cover.jpg library - In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries - Wayne A. Wiegand University Press of Mississippi Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community has often overlooked—even ignored—its own history of White supremacy and deliberate inaction on the part of White librarians and library leadership. Author Wayne A. Wiegand takes a crucial step to amend this historical record. In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries analyzes and critiques the world of professional librarianship between 1954 and 1974. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thedarkpast monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a4da1bba-57c4-4143-a5c4-71667f84e8df/W8_cover.jpg library - The Dark Past: The US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800—2015 - William M. Wiecek Oxford University Press The Dark Past offers a historical overview and interpretive guide to all the major cases decided by US Supreme Court that have affected the freedom and rights of Black Americans since 1800. It lends coherence to what could otherwise be a disjointed chronicle of cases and connects the events of the past to the current era of racial inequality-most recently exhibited in the Shelby County v. Holder (2015) decision, which hobbled the Voting Rights Act. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/belonging monthly 0.5 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755879715404-XQ1X486BANAQ02I9KVHJ/whiting_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England - Gloria McCahon Whiting University of Pennsylvania Press New England is often considered a cradle of liberty in American history, but it was also a cradle of slavery. From the earliest years of colonization, New Englanders bought and sold people, most of whom were of African descent. In Belonging, Gloria McCahon Whiting tells the region’s early history from the perspective of the people who belonged to others and who struggled to maintain a sense of belonging among their kin. Through a series of meticulously reconstructed family narratives, Whiting traces the contours of enslaved people’s intimate lives in early New England, where they often lived with those who bound them but apart from kin. Read more at University of Pennsylvania Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/inopencontempt monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/8f4b79c6-97b1-4642-9575-6519b303fad6/W5_cover.jpg library - In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space - Irvin Weathersby Jr. Penguin Random House/Viking Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot the country’s landscape, while schools and street signs continue to bear the names of segregationists. With poignant, lyrical prose, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby confronts the inescapable specter of white supremacy in our open spaces and contemplates what it means to bear witness to sites of lasting racial trauma. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/plundered monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b5ae1d2f-fd31-4600-b09a-3bb71bd86431/A9_cover.jpg library - Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America - Bernadette Atuahene Hachette Book Group When Professor Bernadette Atuahene moved to Detroit, she planned to study the city’s squatting phenomenon. What she accidentally found was too urgent to ignore. Her neighbors, many of whom had owned their homes for decades, were losing them to property tax foreclosure, leaving once bustling Black neighborhoods blighted with vacant homes. Through years of dogged investigation and research, Atuahene uncovered a system of predatory governance, where public officials raise public dollars through laws and processes that produce or sustain racial inequity—a nationwide practice in no way limited to Detroit. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/humansinshackles monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f286c60e-1ddb-4ce3-b883-484a05dafbdc/humans-shackles-finalist-sticker.png library - Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery - Ana Lucia Araujo University of Chicago Press During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas in cramped, inhumane conditions. Many of them died on the way, and those who survived had to endure further suffering in the violent conditions that met them onshore. Covering more than three hundred years, Humans in Shackles grapples with this history by foregrounding the lived experience of enslaved people in tracing the long, complex history of slavery in the Americas. Read more at University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/maryturner monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1746398203746-I0WT2P2J0BXHLBODQJWP/A3_cover.jpg library - Mary Turner and the Mob: The Brooks-Lowndes Race Riot of 1918 in History and Memory - Thomas Aiello University of South Carolina Press The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder. In Mary Turner and the Mob, Thomas Aiello asserts that the gruesome details of Turner's execution have distracted historians from investigating the larger context of these terrible events. Turner was murdered but not pregnant, the author contends, and Walter White, the NAACP investigator in the case, knew this but obscured the facts because of the story's effectiveness. Aiello approaches Turner's murder and broader violence in Brooks County not only as a series of lynchings in the rural South but also as events best understood as part of a sustained wave of racial violence during the long Red Summer, beginning in East St. Louis in 1917 and continuing until the Tulsa Massacre in 1921. Read more at University of South Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/boundlabor monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/eeda6d23-0cec-4a27-a914-531ed18b65ff/A2_cover.jpg library - Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia - Thomas Aiello University Press of Florida After the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked to pay off debts or legal fines. Through the story of a labor camp in Georgia, Aiello takes a close look at the Deep South’s dependence on debt peonage and convict leasing systems during the post-Reconstruction era and draws attention to a form of bound labor that has not been discussed by scholars of racialized incarceration. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/whenfreedomisthequestion monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1746397182355-NLHNGUY3KNNNMQYJJV2V/A10_cover.jpg library - When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation - Bill Ayers Beacon Press Blending history and political theory and weaving in examples from literature, social movements, and his personal life, this book is a useful resource and primer for those interested in fighting for social justice. Guided by questions like what is freedom?, how do we get free?, and what are the freedom dreams that encourage us and drive us forward?, activist Bill Ayers explores the concept of freedom in 8 essays. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thecontainment-brgp2-m6gsr-7zfm6-chbmh-4cabw-d6t6f-pmmy6-z49l7-lyp6w monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/e2681e4c-18ae-436a-b5e6-3608e5efa609/containment-winner-sticker.png library - The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North - Michelle Adams Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across the North, and to the civil rights movement’s struggle for a truly equal education for all. How did this come about, and why? In The Containment, legal scholar Michelle Adams tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate Detroit schools—and what happened when it collided with Nixon-appointed justices committed to a judicial counterrevolution. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/nomorepeace monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/eab27e5d-bc26-4655-8225-b505f854f681/B1_cover.jpg library - No More Peace: Abolition War and Counterrevolution - Oliver Baker University of California Press Racial capitalism is and was not inevitable. At every point in US history, the exploited and dispossessed rebelled for an alternative future. In No More Peace, Baker highlights how numerous insurrections, revolts, and armed campaigns of enslaved and colonized people advanced abolition war as the movement to win collective life over class society in North America. Through historical analysis, literary critique, and theory, Baker shows how Black and Indigenous rebels developed insights about counterrevolution precisely through their militant confrontation with it. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/soulofthecourt monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/545f80bb-271f-4cf6-9ada-ed47997ce50b/B10_cover.jpg library - Soul of the Court : The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. - Tonya Bolden University Press of Mississippi Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were “only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution” and its impact on American lives. One was Hugo Black, deceased Supreme Court justice. The other was William Benson Bryant Sr. (1911–2005), who in the early 1950s became the first Black assistant US attorney to try cases in Washington, DC’s federal court, and became that same court’s first Black chief judge in 1977. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/homefrontbattles monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/170c8629-5532-4ca4-8d77-d2c840726ee0/B11_cover.jpg library - Home Front Battles: World War II Mobilization and Race in the Deep South - Charles C. Bolton Oxford University Press Home Front Battles examines the many effects of World War II economic and military mobilization on the Deep South, including the federal government's attempts to solve some of the social problems that arose from a massive influx of migrants who were unfamiliar with a new world of work. It also underscores one of the primary home front battles, which began with the passage of the Selective Training and Service Act in 1940 and the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee in 1941, banning discriminatory military training and employment practices and making it clear that the federal government would be promoting the ideal of nondiscrimination as part of its wartime mobilization efforts. In the Deep South, where race relations were already tense, these directives and southern tradition clashed. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/aplausibleman-rbp97 monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cf2c10cd-ac47-4ef8-b8ba-9ff626c9269c/A8_cover.jpg library - A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Susanna Ashton The New Press In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one of the most influential books in American history and the novel that helped inspire the overthrow of slavery in the United States. A Plausible Man unfolds as a historical detective story, as Ashton combs obscure records for evidence of Jackson’s remarkable flight from slavery to freedom, his quest to liberate his enslaved family, and his emergence as an international advocate for abolition. Read more at The New Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/bluesmamas-xfsy5 monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/7f5dba45-318a-4f2d-a6bf-4c2114eb2139/A7_cover.jpg library - Blues Mamas & Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage - Masi Asare Duke University Press In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a vanguard of black women singers including Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Pearl Bailey, Juanita Hall, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Diahann Carroll, and Leslie Uggams created a lineage of highly trained and effective voice teachers whose sound and vocal techniques continue to be heard today. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/nephew-xwc2j monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d6a621d2-8e7c-44c0-b932-3125b88d7212/A6_cover.jpg library - Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony - MK Asante HarperCollins/Amistad Waiting in the emergency room at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia where his eighteen-year-old nephew, Nasir, lay unconscious after being shot nine times, MK Asante began pouring his heart and soul into a series of letters to a beautiful, dying Black boy so full of life. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/onrhetoric monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1b14c040-b683-48e9-bd46-9f42df044f86/B12_cover.jpg library - On Rhetoric and Black Music - Earl H. Brooks Wayne State University Press On Rhetoric and Black Music examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, or Black Arts Movement as we know these phenomena without Black music. Through rhetorical studies, archival research, and musical analysis, Brooks establishes the "sonic lexicon of Black music," defined by a distinct constellation of sonic and auditory features that bridge cultural, linguistic, and political spheres with music. Read more at Wayne State University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/unjustrestitution monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d5f20442-fb98-4c66-ad17-3b4a1b7e8b6a/B13_cover.jpg library - Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for Equality - Michael K. Brown University of California Press Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods when economic opportunity appeared to be a real possibility: Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Political leaders who believed slavery and Jim Crow degraded Black people enacted policies to rehabilitate formerly subjugated individuals. Black Americans, on the other hand, repudiated the idea that they were damaged people in need of repair. Repeatedly, Black people’s vision of economic justice was based on antiprivilege egalitarianism, the idea that a just restitution for their oppression required abolishing the political and legal privileges whites had acquired. Black opposition reveals what was at stake at each historical moment and what might constitute economic justice in the twenty-first century. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/talkingreenwichvillage monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b6db9b0e-7b20-4b7d-9384-86e9fe419f5d/B14_cover.jpg library - Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital - David Browne Hachette Book Group/Grand Central Publishing Although Greenwich Village encompasses less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise area nurtured so many innovative artists and genres. Over the course of decades, Billie Holiday, the Weavers, Sonny Rollins, Dave Van Ronk, Ornette Coleman, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Phil Ochs, and Suzanne Vega are just a few who migrated to the Village, recognizing it as a sanctuary for visionaries, non-conformists, and those looking to reinvent themselves. In eye-opening fashion, Browne details the often-overlooked people of color in the Sixties folk clubs, reveals how the FBI and city government consistently kept their eyes on the community, unearths the machinations behind the infamous “beatnik riot” in Washington Square Park, and tells the interconnected tales of Van Ronk, the seminal band the Blues Project, and the beloved sister trio, the Roches. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thecarceralcity monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9d8e8f8b-1f72-4e57-8f6b-cb6496b43c8c/B2_cover.jpg library - The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 - John K. Bardes University of North Carolina Press Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/brassrootsdemocracy monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/db6415e7-5655-4ef4-a9f7-9706430b2d2f/brassroots-sticker.png library - Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons - Benjamin Barson Wesleyan University Press Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Read more at Wesleyan University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blackprose monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/96a5cc95-d777-41a7-a3cb-1925056838b7/B4_cover.jpg library - Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature - Faith Barter University of North Carolina Press Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black writers persistently imagined alternative and liberatory legal futures. In reading these writers as architects of legal possibility, Faith Barter mobilizes the coincidental intimacy of prose and the legal term pro se, which refers to litigants who represent themselves in court. Barter juxtaposes nineteenth-century law and literature to show how Black writers counterintuitively used legal forms to reimagine their own relationships to time and place. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/redstained monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755878723357-WNLZQNRU7320MVWPS3I6/bell_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Red Stained: The Life of Hilda Simms - Jokeda "JoJo" Bell Minnesota Historical Society Press Hilda Simms emerged as an actress at a time when segregation was deeply entrenched in Hollywood and on Broadway. Black performers were mostly relegated to bit parts, stereotyped characters, or comic-relief roles—if they were hired at all. Red Stained: The Life of Hilda Simms, the first full biography of her life and career, weaves primary research with a narrative style to tell the true story of Hilda Simms in the context of a nation gripped in the Cold War and a burgeoning civil rights movement. It is an examination of Simms's rise to fame, her drive to be a respected dramatic actress, and her efforts to create equal opportunities for people of color on stage, on the screen, and behind the camera. Read more at Minnesota Historical Society Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/bringjudgementday monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/c33aab10-3b1d-410d-a1dc-584439e3f720/B6_cover.jpg library - Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies - Sheila Curran Bernard Cambridge University Press Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. Through a revelatory examination of arrest, trial, and prison records; sharecropping reports; oral histories; newspaper articles; and more, author Sheila Curran Bernard replaces myth with fact, offering a stunning indictment of systemic racism in the Jim Crow era of the United States and the power of narrative to erase and distort the past. Read more at Cambridge University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/freedmanschallenge monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/069d3349-f378-48f7-ab8b-356ff37acb1b/B7_cover.jpg library - Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit - Robin Bernstein University of Chicago Press In Freeman’s Challenge, Robin Bernstein tells the story of an Afro-Native teenager named William Freeman who was convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit and sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s prison. Incensed at being forced to work without pay, Freeman demanded wages. His challenge triggered violence: first against him, then by him. William Freeman’s unforgettable story reveals how the North invented prison for profit half a century before the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery “except as a punishment for crime”—and how Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and other African Americans invented strategies of resilience and resistance in a city dominated by a citadel of unfreedom. Read more at University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/slaveryafterslavery monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/64ad1727-1a33-4549-a3fc-a5fe8788cde6/B8_cover.jpg library - Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present - Mary Frances Berry Beacon Press While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black children and their families, leading to undue hardships for generations to come. In Slavery After Slavery, historian Mary Frances Berry traces the stories behind individual cases from southern supreme courts to demonstrate how formerly enslaved families and their descendants were systemically injured through white supremacist practices, perpetuated by the legal system. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/builtbythepeople monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4d42bcb7-8a6c-4943-8da0-f5bff03dd8f8/B9_cover.jpg library - Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights - Lindsey Bestebreurtje University of South Carolina Press In Built by the People Themselves, Lindsey Bestebreurtje traces the history of the Black community in Arlington, Virginia, from the first days of emancipation through the civil rights era in the twentieth century. A core insight of her account is how common people developed strategies to survive and thrive despite systems of oppression in the Jim Crow South. Moving beyond the standard story of suburbanization that focuses on elite white community developers, Bestebreurtje analyzes African American-led community development and its effects on Arlington County. Read more at University of South Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/amatterofcomplexion monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5a830b9c-7f29-480d-82f1-78c17641cf36/C1_cover.jpg library - A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt - Tess Chakkalakal Macmillan/St. Martin's Press In A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. Through his literary work, as a writer, critic, and speaker, Chesnutt transformed the publishing world by crossing racial barriers that divided black writers from white and seamlessly including both Black and white characters in his writing. Read more at MacMillan/St. Martin's Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/saxexpat monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/651ac2ee-f9bf-4462-b522-c6590771f10d/C2_cover.jpg library - Sax Expat: Don Byas - Con Chapman University Press of Mississippi Don Byas (1913–1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with—Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others—but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly due to his inability to work with bandleaders. Often drinking to excess, alcohol fueled his sometimes-erratic behavior on and off the bandstand. He went through at least thirteen different groups in fifteen years of professional play before leaving for Europe in 1946. In Sax Expat: Don Byas, author Con Chapman argues that Byas’s relative obscurity arises from his choice to live in Europe, where he missed out on recording opportunities and exposure in the US that would have made him renowned and wealthier. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blacksagainstbrown monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/12b7eba0-ed71-4659-b5e3-c6735725b469/C3_cover.jpg library - Blacks against Brown: The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas - Charise L. Cheney University of North Carolina Press Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) is regarded as one of the most significant civil rights moments in American history. Historical observers have widely viewed this landmark Supreme Court decision as a significant sign of racial progress for African Americans. However, there is another historical perspective that tells a much more complex tale of Black resistance to the NAACP's decision to pursue desegregating America's public schools. This multifaceted history documents the intra-racial conflict among Black Topekans over the city's segregated schools. Black resistance to school integration challenges conventional narratives about Brown by highlighting community concerns about economic and educational opportunities for Black educators and students and Black residents' pride in all-Black schools. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thecostofthevote monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/93f6a664-5733-49a8-ad6f-0be362e1281f/C4_cover.jpg library - The Cost of the Vote: George Elmore and the Battle for the Ballot - Carolyn Click University of South Carolina Press On August 13, 1946, George Elmore arrived at his regular polling place in Columbia, South Carolina. He requested a ballot to vote in the Democratic Party primary but was turned away. While the general election would not occur until November, everyone in South Carolina understood that the results of the election would really be decided on that late summer afternoon. South Carolina was a one-party state, and the segregationist Democratic Party had endured as the uncontested rulers of state politics since the end of political Reconstruction in the late 1870s. No Black man or woman had cast a meaningful ballot in South Carolina in nearly as long. For Elmore and others in the state, the day had come to reclaim this most precious American right. Read more at University of South Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/anunholytraffic monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a3003fd1-8be8-48de-9f20-f24447a8cc86/C5_cover.jpg library - An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South - Robert K.D. Colby Oxford University Press The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands of African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South. Offering an original perspective on the intersections of slavery, capitalism, the Civil War, and emancipation, Robert K.D. Colby illuminates the place of the peculiar institution within the Confederate mind, the ways in which it underpinned the CSA's war effort, and its impact on those attempting to seize their freedom. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/travelingwithoutmoving monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9cc4471f-da5b-47a9-b002-c96d62b134e2/C6_cover.jpg library - Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America - Taiyon J. Coleman University of Minnesota Press The Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, and more than fifty years later, yours seems to be the only Black family on your block in Minneapolis. You and your Black African husband, both college graduates, make less money than some White people with a felony record and no high school diploma. You’re the only Black student in your graduate program. You just aren’t working hard enough. You’re too sensitive. Sandra Bland? George Floyd? Don't take everything so personally. Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox—the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live—what do you do? If you’re Taiyon J. Coleman, you write. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/shechangedthenation monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/6e3683cc-c27d-414b-96c4-3aab2dde6e74/C7_cover.jpg library - She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics - Mary Ellen Curtin University of Pennsylvania Press During her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood before a rapt audience and reflected on where Americans stood in that bicentennial year. “Are we to be one people bound together by a common spirit, sharing in a common endeavor, or will we become a divided nation? For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.” Though her life in elected politics lasted only twelve years, in that short time, Jordan changed the nation by showing that Black women could lead their party and legislate on behalf of what she called “the common good.” Read more at University of Pennsylvania Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/hannibalsinvisibles monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/547d1f1c-bd95-43f3-a2da-5bfc3197ab69/D1_cover.jpg library - Hannibal's Invisibles - G. Faye Dant Arcadia Publishing When Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885, he turned Hannibal, Missouri, into one of the most famous towns in the American imagination. But like Twain’s novel, Hannibal’s idyllic façade often elided the darker racial violence that had marked its past, and it overlooked the history and humanity of the Black residents who have called Hannibal home for generations. Read more at Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/kindredcreations monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/405d585e-f7ac-47c2-8b62-8e3215b53928/D2_cover.jpg library - Kindred Creation : Parables and Paradigms for Freedom - Aida Mariam Davis North Atlantic Books Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways: a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignity—all (and always) on Black terms. Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—not least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community. Read more at North Atlantic Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/loverita monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755878886152-4CTCG37BEX1NZ8TBZJWX/davis_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy - Bridgett M. Davis HarperCollins In Love, Rita Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, who knew Bridgett before she knew herself. Rita’s life was cut short by lupus when she was forty-four. This led Bridgett to ask the simple, heartbreaking question: Why Rita? Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/samlacyandwendellsmith monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/84cae9dc-8428-4f32-aaa6-a4ae5242db9e/D4_cover.jpg library - Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith: The Dynamic Duo that Desegregated American Sports - Wayne Dawkins Taylor & Francis/Routledge This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players. Through its thoughtful analysis of Lacy and Smith’s groundbreaking impact on America’s pastime, this book will appeal to students and general readers interested in sports history and journalism and Afro-American history. Read more at Routledge https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/savingsandtrust monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/337346d7-8b8d-4a20-aefd-071a490dc210/E2_cover.jpg library - Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank - Justene Hill Edwards W. W. Norton & Company In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman’s Bank collapsed. Fully informed by new archival findings, historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors. She illuminates the hope with which the bank was first envisioned and demonstrates the significant setback that the sabotage of the bank caused in the fight for economic autonomy. Hill Edwards argues for a new interpretation of its tragic failure: the bank’s white financiers drove the bank into the ground, not Fredrick Douglass, its final president, or its Black depositors and cashiers. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/sexualviolence monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5e569ff5-62a3-4035-9622-79c881b6907f/E1_cover.jpg library - Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South - Shannon C. Eaves University of North Carolina Press It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free. Shannon C. Eaves unflinchingly investigates how both enslaved people and their enslavers experienced the systematic rape and sexual exploitation of bondswomen and came to understand what this culture of sexualized violence meant for themselves and others. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/undiplomatic monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f7cce1d9-63e6-433f-93c0-4c3f302dfa21/D8_cover.jpg library - Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble - Deesha Dyer Grand Central Publishing/Legacy Lit/Hachette Book Group From the most unlikely person to end up as a senior official to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama comes a candid, incredible, and inspiring story. Moved by the election of the country’s first Black president, Deesha Dyer applied for a White House internship in 2009 as a thirty-one-year-old part-time community college student, taking a leap that carried her into a permanent full-time position, followed by three promotions landing her at the epicenter of politics. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/lessonsingratitude monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1746410704498-2NV3KP30XQJ01QUS0TV2/D7_cover.jpg library - Lessons in Gratitude: A Memoir on Race, the Arts, and Mental Health - Aaron P. Dworkin University of Michigan Press Lessons in Gratitude tells the story of Aaron Dworkin, a MacArthur Fellow, social entrepreneur, and spoken word artist who has dedicated his life’s work to changing the face of classical arts in the world. Read more at University of Michigan Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/anefficientwomanhood monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755878994006-5ERYSVU406X4PLX2N9XT/duncan_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association - Natanya Duncan University of North Carolina Press From its Kingston, Jamaica, inception in 1914, women helped define and shape the Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist aims of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their efforts, made possible in part by UNIA cofounder Amy Ashwood Garvey, helped sustain the largest social justice organization of the twentieth century. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/monstrouswork monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1a15b1ad-b313-4fca-b133-7e6e3e9f76e8/D5_cover.jpg library - Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing under Segregation - Eve Dunbar University of Minnesota Press Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women’s writings in the 1930s–1950s, illustrating how these writers centered Black women’s satisfaction as radical resistance to the false and incomplete promise of liberal racial integration. Eve Dunbar examines the writings of Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks to show how these women explored self-fulfillment over normative and sanctioned models of national belonging. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/lastseen monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/64964f6d-76a8-4465-aae6-dfed1be2b041/G1_cover.jpg library - Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families - Judith Giesberg Simon & Schuster Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again. As soon as slavery ended in 1865, family members began to search for one another, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Pastors in churches across the country read these advertisements from the pulpit, expanding the search to those who had never learned to read or who did not have access to newspapers. These documents demonstrate that even as most white Americans—and even some younger Black Americans, too—wanted to put slavery in the past, many former slaves, members of the “Freedom Generation,” continued for years, and even decades, to search for one another. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thepromiseoflanguage monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d4e370c0-4d4c-4e7b-b169-3a437aaf30a1/G3_cover.jpg library - The Promise of Language: A Memoir - Keith Gilyard Wayne State University Press In this powerful coming-of-age memoir, author, scholar, and linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in the segregated New York City public schools of the 1950s and '60s through his ascent in academia, the rhythm of Black America's vernacular and music provides the backdrop to Gilyard's intellectual awakening. Read more at Wayne State University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/bloodytuesday monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ee862b62-1352-44a7-aefa-ffd02a29e4ea/G2_cover.jpg library - Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa - John M. Giggie Oxford University Press On Bloody Sunday, activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and faced attacks by oncoming state troopers. Footage of the violence shocked the nation, galvanized the fight against racial injustice, and made it an iconic event in the nation's history. Yet the previous year an even more brutal incident dubbed Bloody Tuesday took place in Tuscaloosa. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/carceralapartheid monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/47687056-f45d-47aa-9fd4-5c54984845af/F7_cover.jpg library - Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons - Brittany Friedman University of North Carolina Press It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms carceral apartheid. Prisons are a microcosm of how carceral apartheid operates as a larger governing strategy to decimate political targets and foster deceit, disinformation, and division in society. Friedman shows that, beginning in the 1950s, California prison officials declared war on imprisoned Black people and sought to identify Black militants as a key problem, creating a strategy for the management, segregation, and elimination of these individuals from the prison population that continues into the present day. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/ruintheircropsontheground monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1746435184399-13GMVNOSY7W1DKMHJTB8/F6_cover.jpg library - Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch - Andrea Freeman MacMillan/Metropolitan Books In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality. Read more at Macmillan/Metropolitan Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/captainpaulcuffe monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/35948ad2-7f94-4379-8fd2-ed54a3cd9e7f/F5_cover.jpg library - Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman: A Biography - Jeffrey A. Fortin University of Massachusetts Press Paul Cuffe is best understood as a member of the Black founding fathers—a group of pre-eminent African Americans who built institutions and movements during the first decades of the United States. While he is known amongst scholars, his astounding life story deserves a much wider audience. Drawing on pamphlets, letters, and other documents, and painstakingly reconstructing his genealogy, Fortin vividly describes Cuffe’s experiences and places them within the broader history of the Early Republic to help reveal the central role of African Americans in the founding of the United States. Read more at University of Massachusetts Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thepricetheypaid monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d50d34ae-df67-45cd-aac2-82796d0c57fc/F4_cover.jpg library - The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War - Jeff Forret The New Press In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the ship’s owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters deprived of their human property. Read more at The New Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/writingthemselvesintothemovement monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/08cefdaf-be47-4bb7-9809-96b58e2e7754/F3_cover.jpg library - Writing Themselves into the Movement: Child Authors of the Black Arts Era - Amy Fish University of Massachusetts Press Between 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year period, at least thirty anthologies of poetry and prose by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American children came out of adult-led workshops, classrooms, and sites of juvenile incarceration. Focusing on Black and Latinx youth authorship within New York City, and using deep archival research and elegant close readings, Amy Fish examines child-authored texts of this era within the context of their literary production and reception. These young writers were often supervised and edited by white adults, raising concerns about the authenticity and agency of their voices. Fish contends that young authors themselves shared these concerns and that they employed savvy rhetorical strategies of address, temporality, and trope to self-consciously interrogate the perils and possibilities of their adult-influenced work. Read more at University of Massachusetts Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/fromslaverytosegregation monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/addbab9a-86b1-49ee-a466-de217fc88c41/F2_cover.jpg library - From Slavery to Segregation: Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American South - Keith M. Finley LSU Press Keith M. Finley’s From Slavery to Segregation explores the key features shaping southern politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as explained in the South’s defense of its racial systems. It treats slavery and segregation as part of the same whole rather than as discrete institutions rooted in different periods. In the process, the book uncovers the deep historical origins of the region’s states’ rights philosophy and the unfortunate persistence of a culture dominated by calls for white supremacy. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dare monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/380471e9-cde4-4342-9db8-efa213c93761/F1_cover.jpg library - DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools - Max Felker-Kantor University of North Carolina Press With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blackfeministwriting monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5166f808-6687-4fc5-8bc6-23e560ec39a7/E4_cover.jpg library - Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books - Stephanie Y. Evans SUNY Press Writing scholarly books is stressful, and academic publishing can be intimidating-especially for women, queer folks, and scholars of color. Black Feminist Writing shows scholars how to prioritize their mental health while completing a book in race and gender studies. Drawing on Black women's writing traditions, as well as her own experience, Stephanie Y. Evans gives scholars tools to sustain the important work of academic writing, particularly in fields routinely under attack by anti-democratic forces. Read more at SUNY Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/tangledjourneys monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9b2004fc-0fb2-4be8-84d1-b161cfe8c0d5/G4_cover.jpg library - Tangled Journeys: One Family's Story and the Making of American History - Lori D. Ginzberg University of North Carolina Press In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her death in 1850, she bore nine of his children, five of whom reached adulthood. In 1857, Cogdell and his enslaved children moved to Philadelphia, where he bought them a house and where they became, virtually overnight, part of the African American middle class. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/wearetheleaders monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/25680565-cbd7-48eb-ae6a-a0178032901d/G5_cover.jpg library - We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For - Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Harvard University Press We are more than the circumstances of our lives, and what we do matters. In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how we have the power to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires. Read more at Harvard University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/johnlewisalife monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1755879101210-Z4HJJTZF1PMXPRP7DJIB/greenberg_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - John Lewis: A Life - David Greenberg Simon & Schuster Born into poverty in rural Alabama, John Lewis rose to prominence in the civil rights movement, becoming second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions. Greenberg’s work captures John Lewis’s influential career through documents from numerous archives, interviews with 275 people who knew him, and rare footage of Lewis speaking from his hospital bed after Selma. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/vengeancefeminism monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/97442e6b-3055-49f1-9998-699951524a07/G7_cover.jpg library - Vengeance Feminism : The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times - Kali Nicole Gross Seal Press/Basic Books Group/Hachette Book Group So often failed by the state, demeaned by racism and sexism, and denied respectable means of redress, Black women have nevertheless patiently resisted myriad injustices. Yet history shows an alternative path. It involved razors, pistols, hatchets, and blackjacks, and playacting for courts and reporters—whatever it took to beat the system. In a world where Black women are castigated and caricatured for being angry, Vengeance Feminism tells the story of those who leaned into their fury, crafting a different kind of ideology that scratched and stabbed and sometimes even succeeded. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/survivalisapromise monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9e46e098-c1e3-406a-a390-d73a3c5fb89c/G8_cover.jpg library - Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde - Alexis Pauline Gumbs Farrar, Straus and Giroux We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on “the creative power of difference” may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde’s quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems, has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound bite; they become a cosmic force, teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/flee-north monthly 0.5 2025-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d2fbf80b-24f1-4624-bb4e-f3ddc7b73dc9/S3_cover.jpg library - Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland - Scott Shane Macmillan/Celadon Books Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north. They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region’s leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantations of the deep south. Men, women, and children in imminent danger of being sold south turned to Smallwood, who risked his own freedom to battle what he called “the most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history.” And he documented the escapes in satirical newspaper columns, mocking the slaveholders, the slave traders and the police who worked for them. At a time when Americans are rediscovering a tragic and cruel history and struggling anew with the legacy of white supremacy, this Flee North—the first to tell the extraordinary story of Smallwood—offers complicated heroes, genuine villains, and a powerful narrative set in cities still plagued by shocking racial inequity today. Read more at MacMillan/Celadon Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-build-a-black-future monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1718215528099-AY7YDLCN02I026AKV702/H4_cover.jpg library - To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care - Christopher Paul Harris Princeton University Press When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture—responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care—emerging from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave. Drawing on his own experiences as an activist and organizer, Christopher Paul Harris takes readers inside the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) to chart the propulsive trajectory of Black politics and thought from the Middle Passage to the present historical moment. Carefully attending to the social forces that produce Black struggle and the contradictions that arise within it, Harris illustrates how M4BL gives voice to an abolitionist praxis that bridges the past, present, and future, outlining a political project at once directed inward to the Black community while issuing an outward challenge to the world. Read more at Princeton University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/john-lewis-in-search-of-the-beloved-community monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1717433244645-352MEFSH4SI96M8VQ898/A3_cover.jpg library - John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community - Raymond Arsenault Yale University Press For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into “good trouble.” In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress.” Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/power-elder monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1715007744059-P5PP1X3CGTJZKU1PELUC/E1_9781510770027.jpg library - Power: The Rise of Black Women in America - Charity C. Elder Skyhorse Publishing Before sea to shining sea. Before spacious skies were pierced by purple mountains. Before the uniting of one nation. Black women learned to rise. Award-winning journalist and digital media executive Charity C. Elder posits that there has never been a better time to be a Black woman in the United States, offering an incisive disquisition on Black womanhood weaving theoretical frameworks of history and sociology with poignant interviews, ethnographic observation, and anecdotes gleaned from history, social media, pop culture, and the author’s lived experiences. Read more at Skyhorse Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-souls-of-jewish-folk monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714775003972-DYYNPOLGGIO585P71RP6/T4_cover.jpg library - The Souls of Jewish Folk: W.E.B DuBois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line - James M. Thomas University of Georgia Press The Souls of Jewish Folk argues that late 19th-century Germany’s struggle with its “Jewish question”—what to do with Germany’s Jews—served as an important and to-date underexamined influence on W.E.B. Du Bois’s considerations of America’s anti-Black racism at the turn of the 20th century. Du Bois is well known for his characterization of the 20th century’s greatest challenge, “the problem of the color line.” This proposition gained prominence in the conception of Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), which engages the questions of race, racial domination, and racial exploitation. James M. Thomas contends that this conception of racism is haunted by the specter of the German Jew. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-sisterhood-thorsson monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714774652086-56R5JJNFK18DG180MUDP/T5_cover.jpg library - The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture - Courtney Thorsson Columbia University Press One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation. The Sisterhood tells the story of how this remarkable community transformed American writing and cultural institutions. Drawing on original interviews with Sisterhood members as well as correspondence, meeting minutes, and readings of their works, Courtney Thorsson explores the group’s everyday collaboration and profound legacy. Highlighting the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women’s writing, this book demonstrates that The Sisterhood offers an enduring model for Black feminist collaboration. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/campaigning-while-black monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714774383825-1HQUDPLBH3GFDMI83D9T/T6_cover.jpg library - Campaigning While Black: Black Candidates, White Majorities, and the Quest for Political Office - Matthew Tokeshi Columbia University Press Even today, Black politicians rarely hold the most powerful elected offices one step below the presidency: governor and U.S. senator. Matthew Tokeshi examines the campaigns of every Black challenger for those offices from 2000 through 2020 and points to the significant effects of racial appeals to white voters. He demonstrates that Black candidates consistently face more attacks on stereotypically anti-Black themes such as crime, sexual misbehavior, and economic redistribution than comparable white candidates. However, despite this formidable hurdle, Black candidates can in some circumstances mitigate the effects of negative racial messages. Presenting timely new evidence on the racial dynamics that shape electoral politics in the United States, Campaigning While Black exposes the unique obstacles facing Black candidates and highlights ways that these barriers can be overcome. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/beyond-the-shores monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714773934801-0HCVWENB9JJXSDBQ48P8/W1_cover.jpg library - Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad - Tamara J. Walker Crown Publishig Group Part historical exploration, part travel memoir, Beyond the Shores reveals poignant histories of a diverse group of African Americans who have left the United States over the course of the past century. Together, the interwoven stories highlight African Americans’ complicated relationship to the United States and the world at large. By sharing the accounts of those who escaped the racism of the United States to try their hands at life abroad, Beyond the Shores shines a light on the meaning of home and the search for a better life. Read more at Crown Publishing/Penguin RandomHouse https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-wounded-world monthly 0.5 2024-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1725889857743-FPXAVGQ6WKHBHSTNRWQB/wounded-world-sticker.png library - The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War - Chad L. Williams Farrar, Straus and Giroux When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book, however, remained unfinished. In The Wounded World, Chad Williams offers the dramatic account of Du Bois’s failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works. In uncovering what happened to Du Bois’s largely forgotten book, Williams offers a captivating reminder of the importance of World War I, why it mattered to Du Bois, and why it continues to matter today. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-risk-it-takes monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714773290210-UNQI4OL0RV8KGKHEM6GW/W3_cover.jpg library - The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation - Raquel Willis St. Martin's Press In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women’s March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. In The Risk It Takes to Bloom, Raquel Willis recounts with passion and candor her experiences straddling the Obama and Trump eras, the possibility of transformation after tragedy, and how complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks and bloom toward collective liberation. Read more at St. Martin's Press/Macmillan https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-famous-lady-lovers monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714773008035-ZDBYAK5XRQCZU1UCCGGE/W5_cover.jpg library - The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall - Cookie Woolner University of North Carolina Press Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black "lady lovers"—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black lady lovers grew, and queer flirtations flourished. Cookie Woolner uncovers the intimate lives of performers, writers, and educators such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Gladys Bentley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Lucy Diggs Slowe, along with the many everyday women she encountered in the archives. Examining blues songs, Black newspapers, vice reports, memoirs, sexology case studies, and more, Woolner illuminates the unconventional lives Black lady lovers formed to suit their desires. Negotiating shifting notions of sexuality and respectability, Black lady lovers strategically established queer networks, built careers, created families, and were vital cultural contributors to the US interwar era. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-black-ceiling monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714772629478-4IU71RBY5L7ZEIAXCP2K/W4_cover.jpg library - The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace - Kevin Woodson The University of Chicago Press Sociologist and law professor Kevin Woodson knows firsthand what life at a top law firm feels like as a Black man. Examining the experiences of more than one hundred Black professionals at prestigious firms, Woodson discovers that their biggest obstacle in the workplace isn’t explicit bias but racial discomfort, or the unease Black employees feel in workplaces that are steeped in Whiteness. Firms must do more than prevent discrimination, Woodson explains, outlining the steps that firms and Black professionals can take to ease racial discomfort. Offering a new perspective on a pressing social issue, The Black Ceiling is a vital resource for leaders at preeminent firms, Black professionals and students, managers within mostly White organizations, and anyone committed to cultivating diverse workplaces. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/brooding-over-bloody-revenge monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714762566765-PIWZOMM7K1E37O4QYBLF/T3_cover.jpg library - Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance - Nikki M. Taylor Cambridge University Press From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners. The stories presented, which span centuries and legal contexts, demonstrate that these acts of lethal force were carefully pre-meditated. Enslaved women planned how and when their enslavers would die, what weapons and accomplices were necessary, and how to evade capture in the aftermath. Original and compelling, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge presents a window into the lives and philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about justice and how to achieve it. Read more at Cambridge University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/amaza-lee-meredith monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714762298998-Z8Y4WIY068BLLB46EVQ2/T1_cover.jpg library - Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class - Jacqueline Taylor The MIT Press Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, while revealing the importance of architecture as a force in Black middle-class identity. Through her charismatic protagonist, Jacqueline Taylor derives new insights into the experiences of Black women at the forefront of culture in early 20th-century America, caught between expectation and ambition, responsibility and desire. Read more at The MIT Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/coach-prime monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714761913958-TZN4AXABAE2JNGIZ08CV/T2_cover.jpg library - Coach Prime: Deion Sanders and the Making of Men - Jean-Jacques Taylor Mariner Books Known for decades as one of the NFL’s most iconic and spectacular playmakers, Deion Sanders remains college football's most intriguing newsmaker. In just three years, he has become the most talked about coach by recruiting elite players to moribund programs and reviving the spirit and pride of forgotten fanbases by winning. With access no other reporter has been granted, veteran sports journalist Jean-Jacques Taylor takes readers inside one season with Deion Sanders to show the heart, mind, and culture of America's most innovative football coach and his team of would-be champions. Read more at Mariner Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/maverick-feminist monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714761508704-WRZAFQ13R9MIH7Y9FZY3/S17_cover.jpg library - Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability - Kemeshia Randle Swanson The University Press of Mississippi Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating qualities have been repeatedly disparaged by the masses in favor of an elitist politics of respectability. In Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability, scholar Kemeshia Randle Swanson examines the extent to which the politics of respectability diminish joy and increase sorrow throughout the lifespan of Black women. By rejecting this damaging standard in society, Black women can wholly and attentively assist in the obliteration of racist, sexist, classist, and ableist oppression. But first, they must work towards becoming self-identified, self-actualized, and self-sexualized. Maverick Feminist offers hope concerning the growing divide between scholars and the communities about which they theorize. The book celebrates centuries of agency and control that Black women have mustered and maintained in a world that seems to want nothing more than to see them prone and powerless. Ultimately, maverick feminism provides a freer means of living out, evaluating, understanding, and improving the lives of Black women. Read more at The University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/false-starts-stockstill monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714759712220-0LXUIB9O3HDAZ4R0D5TA/S16_cover.jpg library - False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers - Casey Stockstill NYU Press The benefits of preschool have been part of our national conversation since the 1960s, when Head Start, a publicly funded preschool program for low-income children, began. In the past two decades, forty-four states have expanded access to preschool, often citing preschool as an anti-poverty policy. Yet, as Casey Stockstill shows, two-thirds of American preschools are segregated—concentrating primarily poor children of color or affluent white children in separate schools. Stockstill shows that even in high-quality preschools that on paper have similar resources, de facto segregation creates different school experiences for children that ultimately reinforce racial and class inequality. False Starts suggests that as we continue to invest in preschool as an anti-poverty policy, we need a fuller understanding of how segregated classroom environments impact children's educational outcomes and their ability to thrive. Read more at NYU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/this-is-our-home monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714759375616-F4I7XYR6HV58NKFZHC60/S15_cover.jpg library - This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations - Whitney Nell Stewart University of North Carolina Press The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners. By exploring the material remnants of the past, Stewart demonstrates how homemaking was a crucial part of the battle over slavery and freedom, a fight that continues today in consequential confrontations over who has the right to call this nation home. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/what-sorrows-labour monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714759055515-M7GNYUBBKRS2JJQH4S8E/S14_cover.jpg library - What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family - Brenda E. Stevenson Rowman & Littlefield The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination in the form of plantation lore have continued to distort the African American social identity. In What Sorrows Labour in My Parents' Breast?, Brenda Stevenson provides a long overdue concise history to help the reader understand this vitally important African American institution as it evolved and survived under the extreme opposition that the institution of slavery imposed. The themes of this work center on the multifaceted reality of loss, recovery, resilience and resistance embedded in the desire of African/African descended people to experience family life despite their enslavement. Read more at Rowman & Littlefield https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/when-the-smoke-cleared monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714758762884-449EP40MV1MBSQZX7M6R/S13_cover.jpg library - When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital - Kyla Sommers The New Press In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprisings swept across America. None was more visible—or resulted in more property damage, arrests, or federal troop involvement—than in Washington, DC, where thousands took to the streets in protest against racial inequality, looting and burning businesses in the process. When the Smoke Cleared tells the story of the Washingtonians who seized the moment to rebuild a more just society, one that would protect and foster Black political and economic power. A vital chapter in the struggle for racial equality, When the Smoke Cleared is an account of open wounds, paths not taken, and their unforeseen consequences—revealed here in all of their contemporary significance. Read more at The New Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-free-the-captives monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714758471935-WFIZX34Y316QKQMBLA7Z/S12_cover.jpg library - To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul - Tracy K. Smith Knopf In 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the “din of human division and strife.” With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinking—personal, documentary, and spiritual—to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another. Read more at Knopf https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/race-and-respectability monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714758211014-CP94JB1HL6PEW6WN578A/S10_cover.jpg library - Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic - Cassander L. Smith LSU Press Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world. To study the origins of the complicated relationship between race and respectability, Cassander L. Smith shows that early American literatures reveal Black communities engaging with issues of respectability from the very beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. Concerns about character and comportment influenced the literary production of Black Atlantic communities, particularly in the long eighteenth century. Through these early Black texts, Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic considers respectability politics as a malleable strategy that has both energized and suppressed Black cultures for centuries. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/path-to-grace-smith monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714757559647-YXZWLJ4T78WFHO5UWCIO/S11_cover.jpg library - Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement - Ethel Morgan Smith The University Press of Mississippi The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Many forget that the movement was bigger than the figures on the frontline and that it grew from intellectual and historical efforts that continue today. In Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement, Ethel Morgan Smith shines light on unsung heroes of the civil rights movement, the ordinary citizens working behind the scenes to make an impact in their communities. Through historical contextualization and an analysis of contemporary sociopolitical events, Path to Grace celebrates the contributions of some of the nameless individuals, generation after generation, who worked to make the United States better for all its citizens. Read more at The University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/in-the-shadows-of-the-big-house monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714757228325-6XGLV5ZQIB8W01FHQ6NQ/S9_cover.jpg library - In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana - Stephen Small The University Press of Mississippi In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited states that benefit from this tourism, has more than sixty heritage sites housed in former slave plantations. These sites contain the remains, restorations, reconstructions, and replicas of antebellum slave cabins and slave quarters. Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana is the first book to tackle the role, treatment, and representation of slave cabins at plantation museum sites in contemporary heritage tourism. Read more at The University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-second-american-republic monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714756893612-MP3Y8UM1NSW4VHFFB98F/S8_cover.jpg library - The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic - Manisha Sinha W. W. Norton & Company We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality. In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction. Sinha narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces us to key individuals, famous and otherwise, who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom. A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/up-home-siimmons monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714756528027-G1RQRGCMB8U81RCAHAZA/S7_cover.jpg library - Up Home: One Girl's Journey - Ruth J. Simmons Random House Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this—or, in her words, because of it—Simmons would become the first Black president of an Ivy League university. Written in clear and timeless prose, Up Home is both an origin story set in the segregated South and the uplifting chronicle of a girl whose intellect, grace, and curiosity guide her as she creates a place for herself in the world. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/life-on-other-planets monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714756153366-653NH2XLJMPJ96LLOEBH/S6_cover.jpg library - Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe - Aomawa Shields Viking An astronomer and astrobiologist at the top of her field, Dr. Shields studies the universe outside our Solar System, researching and uncovering the planets circling distant stars with just the right conditions that could support life—while also using her theater education to communicate the wonder and magic of the universe with those of us here on Earth. Life on Other Planets is a journey of discovery on this world and on others, a story of creating a life that makes space for joy, love, and wonder while being driven by one of our biggest questions: Is anybody else out there? It is about the possibility of living between multiple worlds and not choosing—but instead charting a new path entirely. Read more at Viking Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-rebels-clinic-shatz monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714755842651-4AADHA20ELRUUZCENHBS/S5_cover.jpg library - The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon - Adam Shatz Farrar, Straus and Giroux In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon’s stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller. Shatz offers a dramatic reconstruction of Fanon’s extraordinary life—and a guide to the books that underlie today’s most vital efforts to challenge white supremacy and racial capitalism. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/ordinary-notes-sharpe monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714755584601-URKVOPS89BIALII990RB/S4_cover.jpg library - Ordinary Notes - Christina Sharpe Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-death-of-a-jaybird monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714755240708-F510QYI6DDZPB1J98870/S2_cover.jpg library - The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind - Jodi M. Savage Harper Perennial In this searing, candid collection of essays, Jodi M. Savage illuminates the roles that identity and memory play in preserving those we love. She explores the lives of modern Black women and communities through the prism of her personal experiences. With grace, creativity, and insight, she looks at femininity, family, race, mental illness, grief, healthcare, and faith — deftly portraying how trauma is inherited, and how the struggle to break a generational curse can last a lifetime. The Death of a Jaybird is a thoughtful examination of complicated family love, loss, and the liberating power of claiming our stories. Read more at Harper Perennial https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/merze-tate-savage monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1725889936730-XBT9DPLTZ4G87GURWXK1/merz-tate-sticker.png library - Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar - Barbara D. Savage Yale University Press A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler. This book revives and critiques Tate's prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Barbara Savage's lucid and skilled rendering of Tate's story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate's life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women's history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought. Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/revolutionary-poetics-rudewalker monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714754402894-HIAJWA6WD5CNY9WG8208/R5_cover.jpg library - Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement - Sara RudeWalker University of Georgia Press In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics—in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. Her investigation of the rhetorical impact of Black Arts poetry allows her to deal realistically with the movement’s problematic aspects, while still devoting thoughtful scholarly attention to the successful legacy of BAM writers and the ways their work can continue to shape contemporary rhetorical activism. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/washington-state-rising monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714753998858-UV8SMTHIOY0VLZ87AGQT/R4_cover.jpg library - Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest - Marc Arsell Robinson NYU Press Washington State Rising is the first book to document the origins, actions, and impacts of the Black Student Union in the state of Washington during the tumultuous late 1960s. Through accounts of Black student struggles at two different college campuses in Washington, one urban and one rural, Marc Arsell Robinson details how the BSU led highly consequential protest campaigns at both institutions and beyond, which led to reforms such as the establishment of Black Studies programs, increased hiring of Black faculty and staff, and new initiatives to recruit and retain students of color. Read more at NYU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/medgar-and-myrlie monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714742914913-7C9GB22X4WJ0ISTU8LOH/R3_cover.jpg library - Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America - Joy-Ann Reid Mariner Books In this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar and Myrlie Evers’ relationship as a lens through which to explore the on-the-ground work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today. Read more at Mariner Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dark-days-reeves monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714741692579-82YQ5QUBFQ2RRZOD24SQ/R2_cover.jpg library - Dark Days: Fugitive Essays - Roger Reeves Graywolf Press In his debut work of nonfiction, award-winning poet Roger Reeves finds new meaning in silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom, and ecstasy. Braiding memoir, theory, and criticism in a series of groundbreaking essays, Reeves builds a profound vision for how to see and experience the world in our present moment, and how to strive toward an alternative existence in intentional community underground. “The peace we fight and search for,” Reeves writes, “begins and ends with being still.” Read more at Graywolf Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/sito-ralph monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714740728825-F9ZCV801UZR0MREXJ8PO/R1_cover.jpg library - SITO: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him - Laurence Ralph Grand Central Publishing In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. For Laurence Ralph, the stepfather of Sito’s half-brother who had dedicated much of his academic career to studying gang-affiliated youth, Sito’s murder forced him to revisit a subject of scholarly inquiry in a profoundly different, deeply personal way. Written from Ralph's perspective as both a person enmeshed in Sito's family and as an Ivy League professor and expert on the entanglement of class and violence, SITO is an intimate story with an important message about the lived experience of urban danger, and about anger, fear, grief, vengeance, and ultimately grace. Read more at Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/fit-citizens-purkiss monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714740404961-PNPFGDJY64X8S8XEC4SU/P4_cover.jpg library - Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America - Ava Purkiss University of North Carolina Press In the first historical study of Black women's exercise, Ava Purkiss reveals that physical activity was not merely a path to self-improvement but also a means to expand notions of Black citizenship. Through this narrative of national belonging, Purkiss explores how exercise enabled Black women to reimagine Black bodies, health, beauty, and recreation in the twentieth century. Fit Citizens places Black women squarely within the history of American physical fitness and sheds light on how African Americans gave new meaning to the concept of exercising citizenship. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/mary-mcleod-bethune-preston monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269030864-106CPUACQASFLHON4I9Z/preston_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist - Ashley Robertson Preston University Press of Florida Broadening the familiar view of Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, Ashley Preston argues that Bethune consistently sought to unify African descendants around the world with her writings, through travel, and as an advisor. Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist provides a fuller, more accurate understanding of Bethune’s work, illustrating the perspective and activism behind Bethune’s much-quoted words: “For I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.” Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/of-greed-and-glory monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714703462785-Y8G7FECO2Z0W2R8XNQCI/P2_cover.jpg library - Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All - Deborah G. Plant Amistad Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American’s personal sovereignty. And yet, millions of Americans—including author Deborah Plant’s brother, whose life sentence at Angola Prison reveals a shocking current parallel to her academic work on the history of slavery in America—are deprived of these basic freedoms every day. In Of Greed and Glory, Deborah Plant reveals the many ways in which slavery continues in America today and charts our collective course toward personal sovereignty for all. Read more at Amistad/HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/before-the-movement-penningroth monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269625557-1QH9BSGBUG4TQJ6WWFCO/penningroth_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights - Dylan C. Penningroth Liveright Publishing The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn’t join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the 1940s, a few brave lawyers ventured south, bent on changing the law. Soon, ordinary African Americans, awakened by Supreme Court victories and galvanized by racial justice activists, launched the civil rights movement. In Before the Movement, historian Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation, Penningroth reveals that African Americans, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century, have thought about, talked about, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery. Read more at Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton & Co. https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/turn-the-world-upside-down monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714702853045-H88C2NK4BOPZLWH94RVG/O3_cover.jpg library - Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean - Imani D. Owens Columbia University Press In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers and performers sought to convey the terror and the beauty of Black life under oppressive conditions, they increasingly turned to the labor, movement, speech, sound, and ritual of everyday “folk.” Many critics have perceived these representations of folk culture as efforts to reclaim an authentic past. Imani D. Owens recasts Black creators’ relationship to folk culture, emphasizing their formal and stylistic innovations and experiments in self-invention that reach beyond the local to the world. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dancing-the-afrofuture monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714697105616-IOQ6XXG8DE5YP1B72RHS/O2_cover.jpg library - Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy - Halifu Osumare University Press of Florida Respected for her work as both professional dancer and trailblazing academic, Osumare shares experiences from her second career — having transitioned from performing Black dance to writing it into history as a Black studies scholar — that show the potential of scholarship in revealing and documenting underrecognized stories of Black dance and global pop culture. In this memoir, Osumare dances across several fields of study while ruminating on how the Black past reveals itself in the Afro-present that is transforming into the Afrofuture. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/americas-black-capital monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714696729396-3KPW8Q34QTEXH86OBE4H/O1_cover.jpg library - America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy - Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar Basic Books The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca. Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the Ku Klux Klan’s sacred “Imperial City.” America’s Black Capital chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement. Read more at Basic Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-demands-of-justice monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714696354842-UUIALT1V1H6YO5OXTXJG/N3_cover.jpg library - The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia - Tamika Y. Nunley University of North Carolina Press Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, infanticide, and arson. While free Black and white people accused of capital crimes received a hearing, trial, and, if convicted, an opportunity to appeal, none of these options were available to enslaved people. Conviction was final, and only the state or owners could spare their accused chattel of punishment by death. For enslaved women in Virginia, clemency was not uncommon, but Nunley shows why this act ultimately benefitted owners and punished the accused with sale outside of the state as the best possible outcome. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/our-hidden-conversation monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714695944637-HHYTSRTE74WXACWTG7FJ/N2_cover.jpg library - Our Hidden Conversation: What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity - Michele Norris Simon & Schuster The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. Our Hidden Conversations is a unique compilation of stories, richly reported essays, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest, if sometimes uncomfortable, conversation about race and identity, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts, private discussions, and long submerged memories. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-garretts-of-columbia monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714694744273-X7OOZ5OJYFPP6QTRCMBR/N1_cover.jpg library - The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration - David Nicholson University of South Carolina Press A multigenerational story of hope and resilience, The Garretts of Columbia is an American history of Black struggle, sacrifice, and achievement. At the heart of David Nicholson's beautifully written and carefully researched book are his great-grandparents, Casper George Garrett and his wife, Anna Maria. Papa, as Garrett was known to his family, was a professor at Allen University, a lawyer, and an editor of three newspapers. Dubbed Black South Carolina's "most respected disliked man," he was always ready to attack those he believed disloyal to his race. The Garretts embraced the hope of America and experienced the melancholy of a family separated by the search for opportunity and belonging. On the basis of decades of research and thousands of family letters—which include Mama's tart-tongued observations of friends and neighbors—The Garretts of Columbia is family history as American history, rich with pivotal events viewed through the lens of the Garretts's lives. Read more at University of South Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-vice-presidents-black-wife monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269725706-L35DP8O6P1OIJCXF4SDV/myers_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn - Amrita Chakrabarti Myers University of North Carolina Press Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys on the grounds of the estate. This meant that Chinn, although enslaved herself, oversaw Blue Spring's slave labor force and had substantial control over economic, social, financial, and personal affairs within the couple's world. Chinn's relationship with Johnson was unlikely to have been consensual since she was never manumitted. What makes Chinn's life exceptional is the power that Johnson invested in her, the opportunities the couple's relationship afforded her and her daughters, and their community's tacit acceptance of the family—up to a point. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-blaxploitation-horror-film monthly 0.5 2024-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714694222205-RHS35O048ZI01SGD2FNX/M10_cover.jpg library - The Blaxploitation Horror Film: Adaptation, Appropriation and the Gothic - Jamil Mustafa University of Wales Press A comparative analysis of how mainstream and Blaxploitation horror films interpret and adapt classic Gothic tales. This book is the first to put Blaxploitation horror films such as Blacula in conversation with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic stories. Jamil Mustafa argues that mainstream horror films adapt while Blaxploitation horror films appropriate the vampire, the Frankenstein monster, the evil spirit, the zombie, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the werewolf for their unique audiences and purposes. Ultimately, he reveals how Blaxploitation horror films reinvent the archetypes of Gothic fiction and film, not to exploit but to satisfy Black audiences. Read more at University of Wales Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blacksound-morrison monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269445286-53EBHSFN8S2YTGHRX4SJ/morrison_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States - Matthew D. Morrison University of California Press A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the 20th century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/central-citys-joy-and-pain monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714693467823-YI5BM2WNH27PK64EHLJ8/M8_cover.jpg library - Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project - Jerome E. Morris University of Georgia Press Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968–91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the author provides us with the often unexplored bottom-up perspective on Black public-housing residents’ experiences. As Morris’s experiential and authoritative narrative voice unfolds in the pages of Central City’s Joy and Pain, both the scholarly and lay reader are brought on a journey of what life is like for people who live and die at the intersection of race and poverty in a rapidly evolving southern urban center. Read more at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/vibe-miles monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714692812521-VF3TTM6T7AZ05OHS8UJM/M7_cover.jpg library - Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South - Corey J. Miles The University Press of Mississippi Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and monolithic notions of the region. In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South, Miles narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the "carceral South," to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness. Read more at The University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/invisible-generals monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714692323740-7CNDCBRCE5FXOWA62T4S/M6_cover.jpg library - Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals - Doug Melville Black Privilege Publishing/Simon & Schuster Doug Melville expected to see his great-uncle Benjamin O. Davis Jr. immortalized on-screen for his selfless contributions to America in George Lucas’ Red Tails. However, Ben Jr.’s name had been replaced by the fictional Colonel A. J. Bullard. And Ben’s father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., America’s first Black general who helped integrate the military, was left out completely. Dejected, Doug looked inward and realized that unless he worked to bring their inspirational story to light, it would remain hidden from the world just as it had been concealed from him. Read more at Black Privilege Publishing/Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-quilted-life monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714611323108-QIVFWTOO7KAJTO9XSPW9/M5_cover.jpg library - A Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter - Catherine Meeks Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Today, Catherine Meeks is a national leader of racial healing and an esteemed retired professor of African American studies. But being a Black woman in America can be difficult. Join Meeks as she describes the adventures and adversity she encountered on her path to becoming an empowered voice for change. Read more at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-black-coptic-church monthly 0.5 2024-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714611096131-3DS36E44TUVY1F23RDZI/M4_cover.jpg library - The Black Coptic Church: Race and Imagination in a New Religion - Leonard Cornell McKinnis II NYU Press Drawing on ten years of archival research and interviews with current members of the church, The Black Coptic Church offers a look at a group that insisted on its own understanding of its divine Blackness. In the process, it provides a more complex look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, particularly within non-mainstream Christian churches. Read more at NYU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/contested-valor monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714610807828-B6DGDUC0ZSYU2AHES3FW/M3_cover.jpg library - Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism - Cameron D. McCoy University Press of Kansas Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black Marines in United States military service during the Cold War era. Cameron McCoy describes the factors and pressures leading to the racial turbulence that surfaced in the Marine Corps from the end of World War II through Vietnam, and the measures taken by civilian and Marine officials to maintain and restore organizational integrity based on a foundation of white supremacy. Contested Valor weaves the experiences of black Americans in the armed forces into the larger tapestry of the American racialist past and aptly captures the dilemmas, triumphs, and pitfalls that the first African American Marines encountered during the contentious eras of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Read more at University Press of Kansas https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-real-hoosiers monthly 0.5 2024-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714610375408-B482Y935FLZFT1UIMGPT/M2_cover.jpg library - The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops - Jack McCallum Hachette Books For far too long the mythology of Indiana basketball has been dominated by Hoosiers. Framed as the ultimate underdog, feel-good story, there has also long been a cultural debate surrounding the film. The Real Hoosiers sets out to illuminate the narrative that the film omits, the story of the unheralded Crispus Attucks Tigers, playing the game at the highest level in the 1950s in a racially divided Indiana. After a crushing loss to Milan High School in the 1954 semifinal, which was the game that the final scenes in Hoosiers are based on, Attucks went on to win back-to-back Indiana state championships. The Real Hoosiers replaces a lacuna in the history of Indiana while dissecting the myths and lore of Hoosier hoops; placing the game in the context of migration, segregation, and integration; and enhancing our understanding of this country’s struggle for civil rights. Read more at Hachette Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/we-pursue-our-magic monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714610043728-JHP6SA8IRRXQ7L2M7INO/M1_cover.jpg library - We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism - Marina Magloire University of North Carolina Press Drawing on the collected archives of distinguished 20th-century Black woman writers such as Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, Marina Magloire traces a new history of Black feminist thought in relation to Afro-diasporic religion. Magloire reveals the tension, discomfort, and doubt at the heart of each woman’s efforts to connect with ancestral spiritual practices. These revered writers are often regarded as unchanging monuments to Black womanhood, but Magloire argues that their feminism is rooted less in self-empowerment than in a fluid pursuit of community despite the inevitable conflicts wrought by racial capitalism. Read more at University of Pennsylvania Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/built-from-the-fire monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1725890037264-4ZH14BM35IQZ3HO80KSB/built-from-the-fire-sticker.png library - Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street - Victor Luckerson Penguin Random House When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his family joined a community soon to become the center of black life in the West. But just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people in one of the worst acts of racist violence in U.S. history. Victor Luckerson tells the true story behind a potent national symbol of success and solidarity and weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/american-whitelash monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714609326568-BF3RNJFOC7GN3I39L0TJ/L2_cover.jpg library - American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress - Wesley Lowery Mariner Books In 2008, Barack Obama’s historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be—just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election of the nation’s first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy, igniting a new and frightening phase in a historical American cycle of racial progress and white backlash. In American Whitelash, Wesley Lowery charts the return of this blood-stained trend, showing how the forces of white power retaliated against Obama’s victory—and both profited from, and helped to propel, the rise of Donald Trump. Read more at Mariner Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/punished-for-dreaming monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714608995474-6B16SBGX90RCSX6M2DGK/L1_cover.jpg library - Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal - Bettina L. Love St. Martin's Press/Macmillan Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. Serving up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it, Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. With input from leading U.S. economists, Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core. Read more at St. Martin's Press/Macmillan https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/fashion-killas monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714608500059-5BLXQGV9ATPQ3GGSLX7Q/K7_cover.jpg library - Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion - Sowmya Krishnamurthy Gallery Books Fashion Killa is a classic tale of a modern renaissance; of an exclusionary industry gate-crashed by innovators hoisting hip-hop from the streets to the stratosphere; of supernovas allying with kingmakers; of traditionalist fashion houses transformed into temples of rap gods. Journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy explores the connections between the DIY hip-hop scene and the exclusive upper-echelons of high fashion, commemorating the contributions of hip-hop to music, fashion, and our society at large. Read more at Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/an-end-to-inequality-kozol monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714608105409-455IOXSZHL4FHJGTKI6T/K6_cover.jpg library - An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America - Jonathan Kozol The New Press When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar’s first year of teaching in Boston’s Black community, the book described the abuse and neglect of children for no reason but the color of their skin. Now, in the culminating work of his career, Kozol goes back into the urban schools, where racial isolation is at the highest level since he became a teacher and is now compounded by a new regime of punitive instruction and coercive uniformity that is deemed to be appropriate for children who are said to be incapable of learning in more democratic ways, like children in more privileged communities. Sure to resonate with current-day arguments for reparations in a broad array of areas, this is a book that points us to a future in which children learn together, across the lines of class and race, in schools where every child is accorded a full and equal share of the riches in this wealthiest of nations. Read more at The New Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-elders-knight monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714601620448-Y3Q9C01GV5FNDVATSXHK/K5_cover.jpg library - Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom - Frederick C. Knight University of Pennsylvania Press Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her renowned autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, if her grandmother, a free black woman named Molly Horniblow, had not enabled Jacobs’ escape from slavery? In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal role of elders in the history of African American community formation through Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide array of printed and archival sources, including slave narratives, plantation records, letters, diaries, meeting minutes, and state and federal archives, Knight also examines how blacks and whites, men and women, the young and the old developed competing ideas about age and aging, differences that shaped social relations in coastal West and West Central Africa, the Atlantic and domestic slave trades, colonial and antebellum Southern slave societies, and emancipation in the North and South. Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans, the day-to-day struggles they waged around their experiences of aging, and how they drew upon these resources to define the meaning of family, community, and freedom. Read more at University of Pennsylvania Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/struggle-for-the-street monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714601449657-YWVL2X47JIV27BY11QM0/K4_cover.jpg library - Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh - Jessica D. Klanderud University of North Carolina Press Cities are nothing without the streets—the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/you-have-to-be-prepare-to-die monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714601095495-1K694AAGMKCO2FJ0OKRC/K3_cover.jpg library - You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America - Paul Kix Celadon Books It’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd–he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign it stemmed from? In You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live, Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s pivotal 10 week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign—Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. With page-turning prose that read like a thriller, Kix’s book is the first to zero in on the ten weeks of Project C, as it was known—its specific history and its echoes sounding throughout our culture now. It’s about Where It All Began, for sure, but it’s also the key to understanding Where We Are Now and Where We Will Be. As the fight for equality continues on many fronts, Project C is crucial to our understanding of our own time and the impact that strategic activism can have. Read more at Celadon Books/MacMillan https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-politics-of-safety monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714600911807-V6SWWY57YW65G6Y6EN6R/K2_cover.jpg library - The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in LaGuardia's New York - Shannon King University of North Carolina Press For much of the 20th and 21th centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black "thugs" throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. As the Depression and wartime conditions spurred youth crime, white New Yorkers' anxieties—about crime, the movement of Black people into white neighborhoods, and headlines featuring Black "hoodlums" emblazoned all over the white media—drove their support for the expansion of police patrols in the city, especially in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Though Blacks also called for police protection and for La Guardia to provide equitable municipal resources, they primarily received more punishment. This set the stage for the Harlem uprising of 1943. Shannon King uncovers how Black activism for safety was a struggle against police brutality and crime, highlighting how the police withholding protection operated as a form of police violence and an abridgement of their civil rights. By decentering familiar narratives of riots, King places Black activism against harm at the center of the Black freedom struggle, revealing how Black neighborhoods became occupied territories in La Guardia's New York Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-folk-kelley monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714600617911-TMHJOKCQ72HRGSFME53R/K1_cover.jpg library - Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class - Blair LM Kelley Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton & Co. There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. Spanning two hundred years—from one of Kelley’s earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic—Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read more at Liveright Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/memoires-of-a-tuskegee-airmen-nurse monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714600351834-DPYO65R513PX5PUCVDPF/J4_cover.jpg library - Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters - Pia Marie Winters Jordan University of Georgia Press Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and her Military Sisters focuses on a four-year period from 1942 to 1946 during World War II when up to 28 women from the Army Nurse Corps staffed the station hospital on the base where the future Tuskegee Airmen were undergoing basic and advanced pilot training. These women were African-Americans, graduates of nursing schools throughout the country, registered nurses and lieutenants in the Army Nurse Corps. They were military officers and the pilot cadets saluted them. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/ambivalent-affinities monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714600114418-G2R77857OWJZ4SRP8VBF/J3_cover.jpg library - Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II - Jennifer Dominique Jones University of North Carolina Press In the early 21th century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity—most often categorized as homosexuality—appeared in the campaigns of civil rights organizations, Black liberal elected officials, segregationists, and far right radicals. Deployed in complex and at times contradictory ways, political ideas about homosexuality (and later, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects) became tethered to conceptualizations of Blackness and racial equality. In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash. Foregrounding an intersectional framing of postwar political histories, Jones demonstrates how the shared non-normative status of Blackness and homosexuality facilitated comparisons between subjects and political visions associated with both. Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/white-gloves-black-nation monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714599705842-XWXSGB3CMN98ZPODM8LG/J2_cover.jpg library - White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti - Grace Sanders Johnson University of North Carolina Press This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian women's political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–34). The two decades following the occupation were some of the most politically dynamic and promising times in Haiti's modern history, but the history of women's political organizing in this period has received scant attention. Tracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside of Kenscoff, Haiti, to Philadelphia, the Belgian Congo, and back to Port-au-Prince, this book tells the story of Haitian women's essential role as co-curators of modern Haitian citizenship. Set in a period when national belonging was articulated in philosophies of African authenticity, revolutionary nostalgia, and working-class politics, Grace Sanders Johnson considers how an emerging educated and professional class of women who understood themselves as descendants of the Haitian Revolution established alternative claims to citizenship that included, but were not limited to, suffrage and radicalism. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-wreck-jackson monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714599409631-98GDOZIQ15WEAB5V0U8K/J1_cover.jpg library - The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother - Cassandra Jackson Viking Press There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. Through awkward encounters with family, she comes to realize that she is named after her father’s niece, and looks eerily like the child’s mother, both of whom were killed in a car wreck along with her father’s beloved mother, and—as she soon discovers—his first wife. Cassandra learns to keep silent about the wreck, but soon learns there is no way to outpace the claw-like grip of her family’s past trauma. In this luminous memoir, Jackson attempts to unearth her lost family, while also creating a new one–only to discover little progress separates the past from the present. Read more at Viking Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/madness-hylton monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714599212615-VL6TLD9VAUA3IWZ4SV6Z/H14_cover.jpg library - Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum - Antonia Hylton Legacy Lit/Grand Central Publishing On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state’s Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Read more at Legacy Lit/Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/radical-reparations-hunter monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714598724794-IKJUCFPFHAGWM401NTXO/H13_cover.jpg library - Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation - Marcus Anthony Hunter Amistad For over a century, the idea of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black Americans has divided the United States. Current petitions to redress the lasting and collateral consequences of slavery have not moved past economic solutions, even though we know that monetary redress alone is not enough. Not only would many wounds be left unhealed, but relying solely on economics would continue a legacy of neglect for African Americans. In this thoughtful and sure-to-be controversial book, Marcus Anthony Hunter argues that a radical shift in our outlook is necessary; we need more comprehensive solutions such as those currently sought by today's educators, historians, activists, organizers, Afrofuturists, and socially conscious citizens. In Radical Reparations, Hunter offers a unifying and unconventional framework for achieving holistic and comprehensive healing of African American communities and provides a compellingly and provocatively reframing of reparations' past, present, and future, offering a unifying way forward for us all. Read more at Amistad/Harper Collins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/from-death-row-to-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714598347518-T6TG49BGB9RP7XJ8JI35/H12_cover.jpg library - From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case - Phillip A. Hubbart University Press of Florida An insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice. Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged “eyewitness” through prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well known to the Port St. Joe police. From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/south-end-shout monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714598097591-HUC4WMAUAJ8806TABQZR/H11_cover.jpg library - South End Shout: Boston’s Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age - Roger House Michigan Publishing/Lever Press South End Shout: Boston’s Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age details the power of music in the city’s African American community, spotlighting the era of ragtime culture in the early 1900s to the rise of big band orchestras in the 1930s. This story is deeply embedded in the larger social condition of Black Bostonians and the account is brought to life by the addition of 20 illustrations of musicians, theaters, dance halls, phonographs, and radios used to enjoy the music. South End Shout is part of an emerging field of studies that examines jazz culture outside of the major centers of music production. Read more at Lever Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-grief-white-grievance monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714597807586-E5BGXPDXZ354DNN2PSMZ/H10_cover.jpg library - Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss - Juliet Hooker Princeton University Press In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can’t always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering enables progress toward racial justice. In this book, Juliet Hooker, a leading thinker on democracy and race, argues that the two most important forces driving racial politics in the United States today are Black grief and white grievance. Black grief is exemplified by current protests against police violence—the latest in a tradition of violent death and subsequent public mourning spurring Black political mobilization. The potent politics of white grievance, meanwhile, which is also not new, imagines the United States as a white country under siege. Drawing on African American political thought, Hooker examines key moments in US racial politics that illuminate the problem of loss in democracy. She connects today’s Black Lives Matter protests to the use of lynching photographs to arouse public outrage over post–Reconstruction era racial terror, and she discusses Emmett Till’s funeral as a catalyst for the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. She also traces the political weaponization of white victimhood during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Calling for an expansion of Black and white political imaginations, Hooker argues that both must learn to sit with loss, for different reasons and to different ends. Read more at Princeton University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/safe-in-a-midwifes-hands monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714597587437-994FXSPWUK365ZM2FAHP/H9_cover.jpg library - Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South - Linda Janet Holmes The Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books After a less-than-positive experience giving birth as a Black woman in the 1970s, Linda Janet Holmes launched a lifetime of work as an activist dedicated to learning about and honoring alternative birth traditions and the Black women behind them. Safe in a Midwife’s Hands brings together what Holmes has gleaned from the countless midwives who have shared with her their experiences, at a time when their knowledge and holistic approaches are essential counterbalances to a medical system that routinely fails Black mothers and babies. Building on workshe began in the 1980s, when she interviewed traditional Black midwives in Alabama and Virginia, Holmes traveled to Ghana, Ethiopia, and Kenya to visit midwives there. In detailing their work, from massage to the uses of medicinal plants to naming ceremonies, she links their voices to those of midwives and doulas in the US, thus illuminating parallels between birthing traditions that have survived hundreds of years of colonialism, enslavement, Jim Crow, and ongoing medical racism to persist as vital cultural practices that promote healthy outcomes for mothers and babies during pregnancy, birth, and beyond. Read more at Mad Creek Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/an-amerikan-family monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714597333503-GX7NHDFRIR3M9TOW8NX2/H8_cover.jpg library - An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation they Created - Santi Elijah Holley Mariner Books For over fifty years, the Shakurs have inspired generations of activists, scholars, and music fans. Many people are only familiar with Assata Shakur, the popular author and thinker, living for three decades in Cuban exile; or the late rapper Tupac. But the branches of the Shakur family tree extend widely, and the roots reach into the most furtive and hidden depths of the underground and the true and complete story of the Shakur family—one of the most famous names in contemporary Black American history—has never been told. An Amerikan Family is a history of the fight for Black liberation in the United States, as experienced and shaped by the Shakurs. It is a story of hope and betrayal, addiction and murder, persecution and revolution. Drawing from hundreds of hours of personal interviews, historical archives, court records, transcripts, and other rare documents, An Amerikan Family tells the complete and often devastating story of Black America’s long struggle for racial justice and the nation’s covert and repressive tactics to defeat that struggle. It is the story of a small but determined community, taking extreme, unconventional, and often perilous measures in the quest for freedom. In short, the story of the Shakurs is the story of America. Read more at Mariner Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/get-off-my-neck monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714597053420-WGVHHD0K8G7UBHFI76JG/H7_cover.jpg library - Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform - Debbie Hines The MIT Press Debbie Hines draws on her unique perspective as a trial lawyer, former Baltimore prosecutor, and assistant attorney general for the State of Maryland to argue that US prosecutors, as the most powerful players in the criminal justice system, systematically target and criminalize Black people. Hines describes her disillusionment as a young Black woman who initially entered the profession with the goal of helping victims of crimes, only to discover herself aiding and abetting a system that prizes plea bargaining, speedy conviction, and excessive punishment above all else. In this book, she offers concrete, specific, and hopeful solutions for just how we can come together in a common purpose for criminal justice and racial justice reform. Told intimately through personal, family, and client narratives, Get Off My Neck is not only a deeply sobering account of our criminal justice system and its devastating impact on Black children, youth, and adults but also a practical and inspiring roadmap for how we can start doing better right now. Read more at Little, Brown & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/watch-your-language monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714596681720-P6U9AYAOU28PC57F9FE0/H6_cover.jpg library - Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry - Terrance Hayes Penguin Books Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance Hayes’ brilliant contemplations of personal, canonical, and allegorical literary development. Proceeding from Toni Morrison’s aim to expand the landscape of literary imagination in Playing in the Dark, Watch Your Language charts a lyrical geography of reading and influence in poetry. Illustrated micro-essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches make reading an imaginative and critical act of watching your language. Hayes has made a kind of poetic guidebook with more questions than answers. Read more at Penguin Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-women-ivory-tower monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714596441931-835C1AZF1HBRGLRQQVV8/H5_cover.jpg library - Black Women Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education - Jasmine L. Harris Broadleaf Books A first-of-its-kind compelling exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in higher education. Black women are heading to college in record numbers, and more and more Black women are teaching in higher education. But increasing numbers in college don't guarantee our safety there. Willpower and grit may improve achievement for Black people in school, but they don't secure our belonging. In fact, the very structure of higher education ensures that we're treated as guests, outsiders to the institutional family--outnumbered and unwelcome. Dr. Jasmine Harris shares her own experiences attempting to be a Vassar girl and reckoning with a lack of legacy and agency. Moving beyond the "data points", Dr. Harris examines the day-to-day impacts on Black women as individuals, the longer-term consequences to our professional lives, and the generational costs to our entire families. Trial and error has been required of Black students to navigate systems of discrimination and disadvantage. But this book now offers useful support, illuminating the community of Black women dealing with similar issues. The author's story is not unusual, nor are her interactions anomalies. Black Women, Ivory Tower explores why. Read more at Broadleaf Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-af-history monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714596172759-PWGXJNP5RY3NE5QMJ5OT/H3_cover.jpg library - Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America - Michael Harriot HarperCollins Publishers America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington’s cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history. Combining unapologetically provocative storytelling with meticulous research based on primary sources as well as the work of pioneering Black historians, scholars, and journalists, Harriot removes the white sugarcoating from the American story, placing Black people squarely at the center. With incisive wit, Harriot speaks hilarious truth to oppressive power, subverting conventional historical narratives with little-known stories about the experiences of Black Americans. From the African Americans who arrived before 1619 to the unenslavable bandit who inspired America’s first police force, this long overdue corrective provides a revealing look into our past that is as urgent as it is necessary. For too long, we have refused to acknowledge that American history is white history. Not this one. This history is Black AF. Read more at HarperCollins Publishers https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/jazz-in-the-hill monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714595935122-2C58G6AQ0LB0K6T619S9/H2_cover.jpg library - Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood - Colter Harper The University Press of Mississippi From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighborhood and created a way of life. Beyond backdrops for remarkable careers, jazz clubs sparked the development of a self-determined African American community. In delving into the history of entrepreneurialism, placemaking, labor organizing, and critical listening in the Hill District, Harper forges connections to larger political contexts, processes of urban development, and civil rights struggles. Read more at The University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/in-the-pines monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269327676-48N1DW2RZT19Q4R1U64N/hale_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning - Grace Elizabeth Hale Little, Brown & Company Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman—only for the suspect to die the next day during an escape attempt. Years later, as a rising scholar of white supremacy, Hale revisited the story about her grandfather and Versie Johnson, the man who died in his custody. The more she learned about what had happened that day, the less sense she could make of her family's version of events. With the support of a Carnegie fellowship, she immersed herself in the investigation. What she discovered would upend everything she thought she knew about her family, the tragedy, and this haunted strip of the South—because Johnson's death, she found, was actually a lynching. But guilt did not lie with a faceless mob. A story of obsession, injustice, and the ties that bind, In the Pines casts an unsparing eye over this intimate terrain, driven by a deep desire to set straight the historical record and to understand and subvert white racism, along with its structures, costs, and consequences—and the lies that sustain it. Read more at Little, Brown & Company/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/let-us-go-free monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714595352665-TSQ189JYPBMFX7R9I7QN/G3_cover.jpg library - "Let Us Go Free:" Slavery and Jesuit Universities in America - C. Walker Gollar Georgetown University Press The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the order’s impact on higher education. Less well known, however, is the relationship between Jesuit higher education and slavery. For more than two hundred years, Jesuit colleges and seminaries in the United States supported themselves on the labor of the enslaved. “Let Us Go Free” tells the complex stories of the free and enslaved people associated with these Catholic institutions. Walker Gollar shows that, in spite of their Catholic faith, Jesuits were in most respects very typical slaveholders. At times, they may have been concerned with the spiritual and physical well-being of the enslaved, but mostly they were concerned with the finances of their plantations and farms. Gollar traces the legacies of the Jesuits’ participation in the slaveholding economy, portrays the experiences of those enslaved by the Jesuits, and shares the Jesuits’ attempts to come to terms with their history. Deeply based on original research in Jesuit archives, “Let Us Go Free” provides a vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding for the general reader interested in the historical relationship between slavery and universities in the United States. Read more at Georgetown University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/when-detorit-played-the-numbers monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714595140984-OYTY5GTRFU73TV527P98/G2_cover.jpg library - When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City - Felicia B. George Wayne State University Press A testament to the tenacious spirit embodied in Detroit culture and history, this account reveals how numbers gambling, initially an illegal enterprise, became a community resource and institution of solidarity for Black communities through times of racial disenfranchisement and labor instability. Author Felicia B. George sheds light on the lives of Detroit's numbers operators—many self-made entrepreneurs who overcame poverty and navigated the pitfalls of racism and capitalism by both legal and illegal means. Illegal lottery operators and their families and employees were often exposed to precarity and other adverse conditions, and they profited from their neighbors' hope to make it through another day. Despite scandal and exploitation, these operators and their families also became important members of the community, providing steady employment and financial support for local businesses. George explores issues of community, race, politics, and the scandals that sprang up along the way, discovering how "playing the numbers" grew from a state-proclaimed crime to an encouraged legal activity. Read more at Wayne State University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/ago-back-and-get-it monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714594795058-8DZ0463KSC4V5AJN6XS4/F2_cover.jpg library - Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing - Dionne Ford Bold Type Books Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is author Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift. What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. Read more at Bold Type Books/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/our-secret-society monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714594570385-93RZ8RXKEH31H76UA3CU/F3_cover.jpg library - Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement - Tanisha C. Ford HarperCollins Our Secret Society illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/going-back-go-t-town monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714594255736-0M54PDGXAUKB295LVGV3/F1_cover.jpg library - Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band - Carmen Fields University of Oklahoma Press Carmen Fields tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s in this account of how a talented musician and businessman navigated the hurdles of racial segregation during the Jim Crow era. As much as possible, Carmen Fields tells her father’s story in his own voice: how he weathered the ups and downs of the music industry and maintained his optimism even while he faced entrenched racial prejudice and threats of violence. Read more at University of Oklahoma Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-theology-and-black-faith monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714593661556-7AVOS50RMFW56V163W4H/E2_cover.jpg library - Black Theology and Black Faith - Noel Leo Erskine Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Contemporary Black theology is complex and far-reaching. In this concise yet thorough volume, Noel Leo Erskine examines Black theology from every angle, seeking to answer the question, Why would Africa’s children turn to the God of their oppressors for liberation? Beginning with the Middle Passage, which brought millions of Africans into the Caribbean and the United States, Erskine unpacks the background and distinctive ideas of Black theology. Erskine covers major thinkers and illumines various areas of inquiry: suffering and theodicy, sin and reconciliation, baptism and the sacraments, womanism and Christology, and others. What unites these strands is the goal of liberation—of a faith that delivers not theoretical orthodoxies but real change in the lives of those buckling under racist oppression. Read more at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/king-a-life-eig monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724268905102-3PZ3Y1D2KWSL7J5YILWW/eig_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - King: A Life - Jonathan Eig Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father—as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr. Read more at Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/stay-black-and-die monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714592854414-VILK99KZLNWGJMJVBFZ9/D4_cover.jpg library - Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius - I. Augustus Durham Duke University Press I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the 19th century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He analyzes the works of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Marvin Gaye, Octavia E. Butler, and Kendrick Lamar to show how black cultural practices and aesthetics abstract and reveal the lost mother through performance. Whether attributing Douglass’s intellect to his matrilineage, reading Gaye’s falsetto singing voice as a move to interpolate black female vocality, or examining the women in Ellison’s life who encouraged his aesthetic interests, Durham demonstrates that melancholy becomes the catalyst for genius and genius in turn is a signifier of the maternal. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/lies-about-black-people monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714592445628-DE684SN11KUG4NEG8QQY/D3_cover.jpg library - Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters - Omekongo Dibinga Prometheus Books From the Black Lives Matter movement to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have been forced to reckon with our country’s fraught history – and present – of racial bias and inequality. Now that we have scratched the surface on courageous conversations about race, many are wondering: what is the next step towards healing and justice? Lies About Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why it Matters is designed for anyone who wants to examine their own biases and behaviors with a deeper critical lens in order to take action, make change, and engage positively in the fight for racial equality. In this honest and welcoming book, diversity and inclusion expert, professor, and award-winning speaker Dr. Omekongo Dibinga argues that we must embark on a massive undertaking to re-educate ourselves on the stereotypes that have proven harmful, and too often deadly, to the Black community. Through personal anecdotes, nuanced historical inquiry, and engaging analysis of modern-day events and their historical context and implications, this invaluable guide will break down some of the most powerful lies told about Black people. Beyond combatting harmful lies, Dr. Dibinga also provides readers with powerful insights on our racial vocabulary, reflective hands-on exercises that will allow readers to confront and change their own biases, and an honest discussion about how to move beyond misplaced shame and use privilege to serve others. Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson. Read more at Prometheus Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/abolition-politics-practices-promises monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714591978196-ZZPM5W2QMXNQNLW64N1Q/D2_cover.jpg library - Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 - Angela Y. Davis Haymarket Books For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, and speeches over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation. In pieces that address the history of abolitionist practice and thought in the United States and globally, the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and stories and lessons of organizing inside and beyond the prison walls, Davis is always curious, always incisive, and always learning. Read more at Haymarket Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/awakening-the-ashes monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269232655-JJG0AYW9SJBAZE00MG7P/daut_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution - Marlene L. Daut University of North Carolina Press In Awakening the Ashes, Marlene L. Daut situates famous and lesser-known 18th- and 19th-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took center stage in the Age of Revolutions. While modern understandings of freedom and equality are often linked to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the US Declaration of Independence, Daut argues that the more immediate reference should be to what she calls the 1804 Principle that no human being should ever again be colonized or enslaved, an idea promulgated by the Haitians who, against all odds, upended French empire. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-black-joy-project-cruz monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714591530397-V07KBP8NS5G18FMR0TZZ/C7_cover.jpg library - The Black Joy Project: A Literary and Visual Love Letter to How We Thrive - Kleaver Cruz HarperCollins/Mariner Books Black Joy is always held in tension with broader systemic wounds. It is a powerful, historically important salve that allows us to keep going and reimagine new ways of being. The Black Joy Project captures these dual realities to incredible, unforgettable effect as an extension of a real-world initiative of the same name. It has become a source of healing and regeneration for Black people of all backgrounds and identities. In words and art, it puts joy on the same track as protest and resistance … because that is how life is actually lived. Uprisings in the street, with music as accompaniment. Heartbreaking funerals followed by second line parades. Microaggressions in the office, then coming home to a warm hug and a garden of lilacs. The list goes on. Read more at HarperCollins/Mariner Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dancing-in-my-dreams monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714591170805-L455B4H81QEFWNBRT2VR/C6_cover.jpg library - Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner - Ralph H. Craig III Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. When Tina Turner reclaimed her throne as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll in the 1980s, she attributed her comeback to one thing: the wisdom and power she found in Buddhism. Her spiritual transformation is often overshadowed by the rags-to-riches arc of her life story. But in this groundbreaking biography, Ralph H. Craig III traces Tina’s journey from the Black Baptist church to Buddhism and situates her at the vanguard of large-scale movements in religion and pop culture. Paying special attention to the diverse metaphysical beliefs that shaped her spiritual life, Craig untangles Tina’s Soka Gakkai Buddhist foundation; her incorporation of New Age ideas popularized in ’60s counterculture; and her upbringing in a Black Baptist congregation, alongside the influences of her grandmothers’ disciplinary and mystical sensibilities. Through critical engagement with Tina’s personal life and public brand, Craig sheds light on how popular culture has been used as a vehicle for authentic religious teaching. Read more at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-history-in-the-philadelphia-landscape monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714590962567-XC8MI6OU3UZMYSKYPT1K/C5_cover.jpg library - Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy - Amy Jane Cohen Temple University Press Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history is marked in the contemporary city. She charts Charles Blockson’s efforts to commemorate the Pennsylvania slave trade with a historical marker and highlights Richard Allen, who founded Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church. Cohen also describes the path to erecting a statue of civil rights activist Octavius Catto at Philadelphia’s City Hall and profiles international celebrities Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson who are honored in the city. At the end of each chapter, she includes suggestions to continue readers’ exploration of this important cultural heritage. Read more at Temple University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/symbols-of-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714590756337-DFIBK6NTFV5W8VARU950/C4_cover.jpg library - Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance before the Civil War - Matthew J. Clavin NYU Press In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. The Declaration of Independence’s assertion “that all men are created equal,” Patrick Henry’s cry of “Give me liberty, or give me death!,” and Francis Scott Key’s “star-spangled banner” waving over “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” were anthemic celebrations of a newly free people. Resonating across the country, they encouraged the creation of a republic where the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was universal, natural, and inalienable. For enslaved people and their allies, the language and symbols that served as national touchstones made a mockery of freedom. Deriding the ideas that infused the republic’s founding, they encouraged an empty American culture that accepted the abstract notion of equality rather than the concrete idea. Yet, as author Matthew J. Clavin reveals, it was these powerful expressions of American nationalism that inspired forceful and even violent resistance to slavery. Symbols of Freedom is the surprising story of how enslaved people and their allies drew inspiration from the language and symbols of American freedom. Interpreting patriotic words, phrases, and iconography literally, they embraced a revolutionary nationalism that not only justified but generated open opposition. Mindful and proud that theirs was a nation born in blood, these disparate patriots fought to fulfill the republic’s promise by waging war against slavery. Read more at NYU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/anarchy-of-black-religion monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714590477613-E93WT2QPKFIYXMM1IVLB/C3_cover.jpg library - The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song - J. Kameron Carter Duke University Press In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to advance a new approach to understanding religion. Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, Carter explores the modern invention of religion as central to settler colonial racial technologies wherein antiblackness is a founding and guiding religious principle of the modern world. He therefore sets black religion apart from modern religion, even as it tries to include and enclose it. Carter calls this approach the black study of religion. Black religion emerges not as doctrinal, confessional, or denominational but as a set of poetic and artistic strategies for improvisatory living and gathering. By enacting a black study of religion, Carter elucidates the violence of religion as the violence of modern life while also opening an alternate praxis of the sacred. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/montgall-avenue monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714590212676-993A05P3QB8XO3OYI1CP/C2_cover.jpg library - Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home - Margie Carr University Press of Kansas Margie Carr’s extraordinary, century-old history of one city block whose residents shaped the changing status of Black people in Kansas City and built the social and economic institutions that supported the city’s Black community during the first half of the 20th century. While introducing the reader to the remarkable individuals who lived on Montgall Avenue, Carr also uses this neighborhood as a microcosm of the changing nature of discrimination in 20th-century America. Today, the 2400 block of Montgall Avenue is situated in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Kansas City. The attitudes and policies that contributed to the neighborhood’s changing environment paint a more complete—and disturbing—picture of the role that race continues to play in America’s story. Read more at University Press of Kansas https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-grift-cane monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269109321-8DZDADLVBKGHTU7DM4JG/cane_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump - Clay Cane Sourcebooks Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism. After the Civil War, the pillars of Black Republicanism were a balanced critique of both political parties, civil rights for all Americans, reinventing an economy based on exploitation, and, most importantly, building thriving Black communities. How did Black Republicanism devolve from revolutionaries like Frederick Douglass to the puppets in the Trump era? Read more at Sourcebooks https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/tip-of-the-spear monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269494879-ZHZMVY1QTFJY01X0FIFD/burton_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt - Orisanmi Burton University of California Press A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what Burton calls prison pacification: the coordinated tactics of violence, isolation, sexual terror, propaganda, reform, and white supremacist science and technology that state actors use to eliminate Black resistance within and beyond prison walls. Packed with little-known insights from the prison movement, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Liberation Army, Tip of the Spear promises to transform our understanding of prisons—not only as sites of race war and class war, of counterinsurgency and genocide, but also as sources of defiant Black life, revolutionary consciousness, and abolitionist possibility. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-scare-red-scare monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714589331366-XOXW9VSTBRLB465OCMWG/B14_cover.jpg library - Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States - Charisse Burden-Stelly The University of Chicago Press In the early 20th century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what social, economic, and political equality of Black people might entail. The Red Scare, sparked by communist uprisings abroad and subversion at home, established anticapitalism as a force capable of infiltrating and disrupting the American order. In Black Scare / Red Scare, Charisse Burden-Stelly meticulously outlines the conjoined nature of these state-sanctioned panics, revealing how they unfolded together as the United States pursued capitalist domination. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/reluctant-race-men monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269372813-K2KL82VI51HI4PPSU19N/bryant_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America - Joan L. Bryant Oxford University Press Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives, moral reform projects, abolitionist struggles, independent church development, and confrontations with scientific thought on human origins. Denunciations persisted even as later generations of reformers felt compelled by theories of progress and American custom to promote race as a basis of a Black collective consciousness. Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges Black American reformers lodged against race across the long 19th century. It factors their opposition into the nation's history of race and reconstructs a reform tradition largely ignored in accounts of Black activism. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/see-justice-done monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714588834300-UHL8XHXTRFNH326MAR5T/B12_cover.jpg library - See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition - Christopher Michael Brown The University Press of Mississippi Author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the 18th century to the present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms—including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions—is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown begins by examining petitions submitted by free and enslaved Blacks to colonial and early republic legislatures. A virtually unexplored archive, these petitions aimed to demonstrate the autonomy and competence of their authors. Early Black writings reflect how a Black Atlantic world, organized by slavery, refused to acknowledge Black competence. Later chapters examine the works of more contemporary writers, such as Sutton E. Griggs, George Schuyler, Toni Morrison, and Edward P. Jones, and explore varied topics from American exceptionalism to the legal trope of "colorblindness." In chronicling these interactions with jurisprudential logics, See Justice Done reveals the tensions between US law and Black experiences of both its possibilities and its perils. Read more at The University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/injustice-in-focus monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714588468475-2YUTBPZD6H3LXI4TQLCI/B11_cover.jpg library - Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams - Claudia Smith Brinson University of South Carolina Press Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging 20th-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to violence perpetrated by White law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era. Author and award-winning journalist Claudia Smith Brinson and photographer Williams combine forces in Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams. Together they document civil rights activism in the 1940s through the 1960s in South Carolina with author Brinson's rich research, interviews, and prose, and eighty stunning photographs from Williams's collection. Read more at University of South Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/anteaesthetics-bradley monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714588173090-6S2TWKG5NL4TG5IMLGCJ/B10_cover.jpg library - Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form - Rizvana Bradley Stanford University Press Moving across multiple histories and geographies, artistic mediums and forms, from 19th-century painting and early cinema, to the contemporary text-based works, video installations, and digital art of Glenn Ligon, Mickalene Thomas, and Sondra Perry, Bradley inaugurates a new method for interpretation—an ante-formalism which demonstrates how black art engages in the recursive deconstruction of the aesthetic forms that remain foundational to modernity. Foregrounding the negativity of black art, Bradley shows how each of these artists disclose the racialized contours of the body, form, and medium, even interrogating the form that is the world itself. Drawing from black critical theory, Continental philosophy, film and media studies, art history, and black feminist thought, Bradley explores artistic practices that inhabit the negative underside of form. Ultimately, Anteaesthetics asks us to think philosophically with black art, and with the philosophical invention black art necessarily undertakes. Read more at Stanford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/why-does-everything-have-to-be-about-race monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714587914892-8FGGN8ORUI1WJT0NA0D2/B9_cover.jpg library - Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away - Keith Boykin Bold Type Books Keith Boykin debunks 25 of the most common claims used to refute America’s racist past and present. With a mixture of personal experience, reportage, and extensive research, Keith Boykin takes a wrecking ball to twenty-five of the most widespread deceptions about race, such as: - The Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery - Affirmative action is reverse discrimination - Critical Race Theory is indoctrinating children to hate one another and shows us how to refute lies, myths, and misinformation with history, knowledge, and truth. Read more at Bold Type Books/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/steady-and-measured monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714587055741-27AWNF67VQZR4RC6SU97/B8_cover.jpg library - Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the Jim Crow South - Travis D. Boyce University of South Carolina Press Travis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benner C. Turner's life and career in the context of the contrary pressures of white and Black authority. Boyce casts Turner, long-serving president of South Carolina State University, as a steady and measured leader who preserved the limited resources his historically Black institution possessed in the face of often hostile social, political, and economic power structures. Previous accounts of Turner and his SC State presidency portray him as unwilling to criticize the state's white power structure and unable to contend with their open resistance to civil rights. Boyce argues that the modern view of Turner flattens a complex terrain, often relying selectively on hostile sources, underplaying the political constraints on presidents of publicly funded HBCUs in the South. Considering Turner in a richer context, with a deep awareness of Turner's early life formative influences, Boyce provides a more complete critical examination of his leadership in trying times. Read more at University of South Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/race-for-america monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714586739335-OU5WP5AQOCK2UDPBZKKL/B7_cover.jpg library - The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny - R. J. Boutelle University of North Carolina Press As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle explores how Black intellectuals like Daniel Peterson, James McCune Smith, Mary Ann Shadd, Henry Bibb, and Martin Delany engaged this cultural mythology to theorize and practice Black internationalism. Employing Black internationalist, hemispheric, and diasporic frameworks to examine the emigrationist and solidarity projects that African Americans proposed as alternatives to Manifest Destiny, Boutelle attends to sites integral to US aspirations of hemispheric dominion: Liberia, Nicaragua, Canada, and Cuba. In doing so, Boutelle offers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-nimble-arc monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1724269175404-RA7K84O80STXIMH5ZTQX/boone_cover-shortlist-sticker.png library - A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography - Emilie Boone Duke University Press While James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing ordinary people and events in the Harlem community to the inclusion of his photographs in the landmark Harlem on My Mind exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, Van Der Zee was a foundational Black photographer whose work illustrates the shifting ways photography serves as a constitutive force within Black life. In A Nimble Arc, Emilie Boone considers Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the 20th century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and in the larger African diaspora. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/legacy-blackstock monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d2ebe457-7cbb-4e0a-85bf-41785d8bcef2/B4_cover.jpg library - Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine - Uché Blackstock Viking Press Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Read more at Viking Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/night-train-to-nashville monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714584809397-2WVMQKFHGW3GGQ3SJFE3/B3_cover.jpg library - Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City - Paula Blackman HarperCollins In another time and place, E. Gab Blackman and William Sousa "Sou" Bridgeforth might have been as close as brothers, but in 1950s Nashville they remained separated by the color of their skin. Gab, a visionary yet opportunistic radio executive, saw something no one else did: a vast and untapped market with the R&B scene exploding in Black clubs across the city. Sou, the popular kingpin of Black Nashville and a grandson of slaves, led this movement into the second half of the twentieth century as his New Era Club on the Black side of town exploded in the aftermath of new radio airplay. Night Train to Nashville explores how one city, divided into two completely different and unequal communities, demonstrated the power of music to change the world. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/room-swept-home monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/897c7f45-f862-4665-9b57-954f88834911/B2_cover.jpg library - Room Swept Home - Remica Bingham-Risher Wesleyan University Press In a strange twist of kismet, two of Bingham-Risher's ancestors intersect in Petersburg, Virginia, forty years before she herself is born: her paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives in Petersburg in 1937, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight, is sent to Petersburg in 1941, diagnosed with "water on the brain"—postpartum depression being an ongoing mystery—nine days after birthing her first child. Marrying meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, women's rights, and the violent reckoning that inhabits the discrepancy between lived versus textbook history, asking: What do we inherit when trauma is at the core of our fractured living? Read more at Wesleyan University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/they-killed-freddie monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1714580005866-HPR88S3XWP6UJNRJUEHW/B1_cover.jpg library - They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-Up - Justine Barron Skyhorse Publishing They Killed Freddie Gray exposes a conspiracy among Baltimore leaders to cover up what actually happened to Freddie Gray, who was fatally injured in police custody in April 2015 —solving the mystery of Gray’s death by uncovering new evidence of how he was killed by police and how his cause of death was covered up. In coordination with a documentary film now being produced, this book revisits a pivotal moment in US criminal justice history, providing new insight into what happened, the historical structures of power that allowed it to happen, and the personalities and dynamics involved—a story never told by the mainstream media. It includes a detailed map with annotations by the author, photographs, and a foreword by Rabia Chaudry. Read more at Skyhorse Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/klan-war-bordewich monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/3e49c5ce-eac3-4f3e-916f-d7b90e1309b8/B6_cover.jpg library - Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction - Fergus Bordewich Alfred A. Knopf In this book, Bordewich transports us to the front lines of the battle of President Ulysses S. Grant against both armed Southern enemies of Reconstruction and Northern politicians seduced by visions of postwar conciliation whose mission was to obliterate the muscular democratic power of newly emancipated Black Americans and their white allies, often by the most horrifying means imaginable. Bordewich revives an unsung generation of grassroots Black leaders and key figures such as crusading Missouri senator Carl Schurz, who sacrificed the rights of Black Americans in the name of political “reform,” and the ruthless former slave trader and Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. Klan War is a bold and bracing record of America’s past that reveals the bloody, Reconstruction-era roots of present-day battles to protect the ballot box and stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies. Read more at Alfred A. Knopf https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/reckoning-with-race monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/99fcf048-d03c-4a7c-8ab1-7524a4306fc2/A2_cover.jpg library - Reckoning With Race: An Unfinished Journey - Frederick Allen HarperCollins In Reckoning with Race, award-winning journalist and former CNN commentator Rick Allen explores his ongoing efforts to understand the struggle of black and white Americans to navigate a shared history at once wicked and intimate, full of love and hate, as they seek to level an uneven playing field. Allen examines issues from the era of Reconstruction through Jim Crow and into today’s contentious debates over redlining, reparations, and critical race theory. He explores the symbolism of Confederate flags, the controversy over Uncle Remus, the election of Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, and the tragic case of the Atlanta Child Murders. Throughout Reckoning with Race, Allen is candid about his own shortcomings as a white native Northerner learning gradually about the complexities of race in his adoptive South. The essays highlight his continuing journey toward understanding the forces that both hinder and promote equality and harmony between the races. Foreward by Andrew Young. Read more at Simon and Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/american-negra monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f408d769-c433-4434-865b-53b90c5dcbe8/A1_cover.jpg library - American Negra: A Memoir - Natasha S. Alford HarperCollins Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY. in a coming-of-age story about what it's like to live at the intersections of race, culture, gender, and class, all while staying true to yourself. American Negra is a captivating look at one woman’s experience being Negra in the United States. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/who-hears-here monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/6ecb9ae7-8c8a-404c-b7d4-23acde2010d2/R1_9780520281844.jpg library - Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present - Guthrie Ramsey University of California Press Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoretical and critical interventions have bridged Black cultural studies and musicology. Representing 25 years of commentary and scholarship, these essays document Ramsey’s search to understand America's Black musical past and present and to find his own voice as an African American writer in the field of musicology. This far-reaching collection embraces historiography, ethnography, cultural criticism, musical analysis, and autobiography, traversing the landscape of Black musical expression from sacred music to art music, and jazz to hip-hop. Taken together, these essays and the provocative introduction that precedes them are testament to the legacy work that has come to define a field, as well as a rousing call to readers to continue to ask the hard questions and write the hard truths. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-antietam monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682982432860-Y6LRRTXHQOHZJMBYWNP7/A3_9781467150729.jpg library - Black Antietam: African Americans and the Civil War in Sharpsburg - Emilie Amt The History Press/Arcadia Publishing The story of the Battle of Antietam has never been told through African American perspectives. The community witnessed John Brown’s raid, wartime skirmishes, the Battle of South Mountain and the aftermath of the bloodiest day in American history. In Black Antietam, African American experiences during four years of Civil War come to life in vivid detail, often in their own words. Award-winning historian Emilie Amt recounts the personal stories of those, both enslaved and free, who lived on the battlefield and who worked in the armies that clashed there. Read more at The History Press/Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-education-of-betsey-stockton monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683075184754-FANLC9PYPUJ1YNN2FJ99/N1_9780226697727frontcover_2022_04_11t16_14_19.jpg library - The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom - Gregory Nobles The University of Chicago Press The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798–1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman’s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jersey to the Hawai‘ian Islands, and from her own self-education to a lifetime of teaching others—all told against the backdrop of the early United States’ pervasive racism. It’s a compelling chronicle of a critical time in American history and a testament to the courage and commitment of a woman whose persistence grew into a potent form of resistance. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-families-civil-war monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683075423170-PK33DP8MMWK0OU2U0HWM/P1_9780820361956.jpg library - The Families’ Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice - Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. University of Georgia Press The stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discrimination. Taking a long view, from 1850 to the 1920s, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. shows how Civil War military service worsened already difficult circumstances due to its negative effects on family finances, living situations, minds, and bodies. At least 79,000 African Americans served in northern USCT regiments. Many, including most of the USCT veterans examined here, remained in the North and constituted a sizable population of racial minorities living outside the former Confederacy. In The Families’ Civil War, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. provides a compelling account of the lives of USCT soldiers and their entire families but also argues that the Civil War was but one engagement in a longer war for racial justice. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/bertha-maxwell-roddey monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683075971522-6NKOTY16QNAQO8BS9NLD/R2_bertha_maxwellroddey_rgb.jpg library - Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership - Sonya Ramsey University Press of Florida This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey modernizes the 19th-century term “race woman” to describe how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into tangible accomplishments in North Carolina and nationwide from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-be-nsalas-daughter monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683076176630-AONFE6LIYZ2746UPLYHJ/R3_9781478019091.jpg library - To Be Nsala's Daughter: Decomposing the Colonial Gaze - Chérie N. Rivers Duke University Press Chérie N. Rivers shows how colonial systems of normalized violence condition the way we see and, through collaboration with contemporary Congolese artists, imagines ways we might learn to see differently. Rivers focuses on a photograph of a Congolese man, Nsala, looking at the disembodied hand and foot of his daughter, which were removed as punishment for his failure to deliver the requisite amount of rubber in King Léopold’s Congo. In addition to exposing the visible violence of colonialism, Rivers argues, this photograph also exposes the invisible—and continued—violence of the colonial gaze. With a poetic, personal collage of stories and images, To Be Nsala’s Daughter traces the past and present of the colonial gaze both in Congo and in the author’s lived experience as a mixed-race Black woman in the United States. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/torn-apart monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683076453025-K5O0DXQK8INFNL4HGHB6/R4_roberts_tornapart_300dpi.jpg library - Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World - Dorothy Roberts Basic Books Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing, Torn Apart argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities. Read more at Basic Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/choosing-family monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683076759193-PY5SMP2NKMGFGOR0UNKP/R5_choosingfamily_cvr_for_sc.jpg library - Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance - Francesca Royster Abrams Books This lyrical and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the author; her wife Annie, who's white; and Cecilia, the Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their 40s and 50s. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist perspective. Read more at Abrams Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-country-music monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683077264708-2RVNHZJC0002XYU60A9Z/R6_Royster_7736_F22_C.jpg library - Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions - Francesca Royster University of Texas Press After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to Black people. Francesca Royster uncovers the Black performers and fans, including herself, who are exploring the pleasures and possibilities of the genre. Informed by queer theory and Black feminist scholarship, Royster’s book elucidates the roots of the current moment found in records like Tina Turner’s first solo album, Tina Turns the Country On! She reckons with Black “bros” Charley Pride and Darius Rucker, then chases ghosts into the future with Valerie June. A Black person claiming country music may still feel a bit like a queer person coming out, but, collectively, Black artists and fans are changing what country music looks and sounds like—and who gets to love it. Read more at University of Texas Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-ball monthly 0.5 2023-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710371418-HAYJJWR3DCHTIGGQTGY8/black_ball.jpg library - Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA - Theresa Runstedtler Hachette Book Group Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. Enter Black Ball, a gripping history and corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball’s “Dark Ages.” Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Runstedtler argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA. Black players introduced an improvisational style derived from the playground courts of their neighborhoods. They also challenged the team owners’ autocratic power, garnering higher salaries and increased agency. Their skills, style, and savvy laid the foundation for the global popularity and profitability of the league we know today. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/moving-the-chains monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683077748084-JXX7BCHMIELLMTD8RN18/S1_sappmoving_covfronthr.jpg library - Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans - Erin Grayson Sapp LSU Press In January 1965, 58 Black and white teammates walked out of the AFL All-Star game to protest the New Orleans Saints’ lingering segregation practices and public abuse of Black players. In response, love of the gridiron prompted and excused something out of sync with the city’s branding: change. Less than 2 years later, the Big Easy made enough progress to pass a blitz inspection by Black and white NFL officials and receive the long-desired expansion team. The story of those athletes whose bravery led to change quickly fell by the wayside. Moving the Chains is the first book to reveal the ramifications of the All-Stars’ civil resistance and to detail the Saints’ true first win. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-idea-of-prison-abolition monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683078106674-12PV7ALDS3IFLBIKBK6S/S2_9780691229751.jpg library - The Idea of Prison Abolition - Tommie Shelby Princeton University Press Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are extremely harsh. Mass incarceration and its devastating impact on black communities have been widely condemned as neoslavery or “the new Jim Crow.” Can the practice of imprisonment be reformed, or does justice require it to be ended altogether? In The Idea of Prison Abolition, Tommie Shelby examines the abolitionist case against prisons and its formidable challenge to would-be prison reformers. Read more at Princeton University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/behind-the-screen monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683078582528-E2KQTHRYD5DBWZH9PVCG/S3_9780197553107_est_cvrmech.jpg library - Behind the Screen: Tap Dance, Race, and Invisibility During Hollywood's Golden Age - Brynn Shiovitz Oxford University Press Introducing a new theory of covert minstrelsy, this book illumines Hollywood’s practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic at the expense of Black lived experience. The book looks at how and why outdated racial content, and specifically blackface minstrelsy, was not only permitted but in fact thrived during the 1930s and 1940s, despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws enforced during this time. The book also recuperates the stories of several of the Black artists whose labor was abused during the choreographic and filming process. Behind the Screen recovers the visibility of Black artists whose names Hollywood omitted from the credits and whose identities America has written out of the national narrative. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/at-the-table-of-power monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683078906659-2C9H4ZD58FUTC086LSGB/S4_spivey_comp_1.jpg library - At the Table of Power: Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality - Diane M. Spivey University of Pittsburgh Press At the Table of Power is both a cookbook and a culinary history that intertwines social issues, personal stories, and political commentary. Culinary historian Diane M. Spivey offers a unique insight into the historical experience and cultural values of African America and America in general by way of the kitchen. From the rural country kitchen and steamboat floating palaces to marketplace street vendors and restaurants in urban hubs of business and finance, Africans in America cooked their way to positions of distinct superiority, and thereby indispensability. These narratives, together with the recipes from the 19th and 20th centuries, expose the politics of the day and offer insight on the politics of today. African American culinary artists, Spivey concludes, have more than earned a rightful place at the table of culinary contribution and power. Read more at University of Pittsburgh Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/it-was-always-a-choice monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683079206077-H456JX37OCRGKP3EYTBG/S6_it_was_always_a_choice_sm.jpg library - It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism - David Steele Temple University Press When Colin Kaepernick took a knee, he renewed a long tradition of athlete activists speaking out against racism, injustice, and oppression. Like Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos—among many others, of all races, male and female, pro and amateur—all made the choice to take a side to command public awareness and attention rather than “shut up and play,” as O. J. Simpson, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods did in the years between Kaepernick and his predecessors. Using their celebrity to demand change, these activists inspired fans but faced great personal and professional risks in doing so. It Was Always a Choice shows how the new era of activism Kaepernick inaugurated builds on these decisive moments toward a bold and effective new frontier of possibilities. Read more at Temple University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/africatown monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683079416882-88Z6SZG7RKP76NTZMJJ2/T1_africatown_cover.jpg library - Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created - Nick Tabor St. Martin's Press/Macmillan An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. Read more at St. Martin's Press/Macmillan https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-love-you-save monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683079620616-GNEVB7DROBVHLW44J1GB/T2_the_love_you_save__cover.jpg library - The Love You Save: A Memoir - Goldie Taylor Hanover Square Press Raped at age 11, Goldie Taylor is sent to live with her aunt. Despite the harsh conditions, she discovers a kinship among writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrisson, finds hope in the form of a nurturing teacher who helps her find her own voice, and books that can save her life. Goldie Taylor's debut memoir shines a light on the strictures of race, class and gender in a post–Jim Crow America while offering a nuanced, empathetic portrait of a family in a pitched battle for its very soul. Read more at Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/riding-jane-crow monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710649605-O5PER8Q4DE1OYY4J61O2/riding_jane_crow.jpg library - Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad - Miriam Thaggert University of Illinois Press As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines 4 instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class "ladies’ cars"; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or "progress," through her travel experiences. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/sink-a-memoir monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683080010983-IRGLW23M1PYAHL05YON5/T4_earlthomas_sink_9781538706176_hc.jpg library - Sink: A Memoir - Joseph Earl Thomas Grand Central Publishing Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. Read more at Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/it-was-all-a-dream-biggie-and-the-world-that-made-him monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683080239397-8IV453RAL6SLDPHJ0DAU/T5_biggie_cover_final.jpg library - It Was All A Dream: Biggie and the World that Made Him - Justin Tinsley Abrams Books Journalist Justin Tinsley’s It Was All a Dream is a fresh, insightful telling of the life beyond the legend. It is based on extensive interviews with those who knew and loved Biggie, including neighbors, friends, DJs, party promoters, and journalists. And it places Biggie’s life in context, both within the history of rap but also the wider cultural and political forces that shaped him, including Caribbean immigration, the Reagan era disinvestment in public education, street life, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and the booming, creative, and influential 1990s music industry. This is the story of where Biggie came from, the forces that shaped him, and the legacy he has left behind. Read more at Abrams Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/under-the-skin monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710890128-LJDB5ZU99KR2VB5JHZ1B/under_the_skin.jpg library - Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation - Linda Villarosa Doubleday/Penguin Random House A landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation. The United States has the most advance medical technology in the world and spends more on health care than any other country, yet the health outcomes of Black Americans are by several measures on par with thoseof people living in far poorer nations. In Under the Skin, award-winning journalist Linda Villarosa explains how racism -- not race -- drives these numbers, drawing on gripping human stories and meticulous research to create a portrait of Black American lives shaped by inequality. Read more at Doubleday/Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/i-saw-death-coming monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710611761-2ZQLJSNMZ48XGSA4GXSX/i_saw_death_coming.jpg library - I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction - Kidada E. Williams Bloomsbury Publishing The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage to freedom after 1865. They were besieged by a campaign of white supremacist violence that persisted through the 1880s and beyond. For too long, their lived experiences have been sidelined, impoverishing our understanding of the obstacles post-Civil War Black families faced, their inspiring determination to survive, and the physical and emotional scars they bore because of it. In I Saw Death Coming, Kidada E. Williams offers a breakthrough account of the much-debated Reconstruction period, transporting readers into the daily existence of formerly enslaved people building hope-filled new lives. Read more at Bloomsbury Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/subversive-habits monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683080897930-PJJWMGK7J45EV9AABSMV/W2_9781478018209.jpg library - Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle - Shannen Dee Williams Duke University Press In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women’s religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery and segregation. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/eating-while-black monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683081234268-3ZL507OPHWKWB8TXR6OY/W3_williamsforson_eating_hb_9781469668451_fc.jpg library - Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America - Psyche A. Williams-Forson University of North Carolina Press In Eating While Black, Psyche A. Williams-Forson illuminates how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating, showing how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-matter-of-black-living monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683081583526-A5HJGFQPUJNVA1ZXUHBL/W4_9780226806914highres.jpg library - The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 - Autumn Womack The University of Chicago Press As the 19th century came to a close and questions concerning the future of African American life reached a fever pitch, many social scientists and reformers approached post-emancipation Black life as an empirical problem that could be systematically solved with the help of new technologies like the social survey, photography, and film. What ensued was nothing other than a “racial data revolution,” one which rendered African American life an inanimate object of inquiry in the name of social order and racial regulation. At the very same time, African American cultural producers and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Kelly Miller, Sutton Griggs, and Zora Neale Hurston staged their own kind of revolution, un-disciplining racial data in ways that captured the dynamism of Black social life. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/master-slave-husband-wife monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683081786843-FD4Y5KNTGRQ6A453SADX/W5_master_slave_husband_wife_9781501191053.jpg library - Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom - Ilyon Woo Simon & Schuster In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as slave hunters came up from Georgia, forcing the Crafts to flee once again. Master Slave Husband Wife is an American love story—one that would challenge the nation’s core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all—one that challenges us even now. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/anne-spencer-between-worlds monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683065636804-J1VIUJUTSN4FFJ0FBV5D/M12_9780820362953.jpg library - Anne Spencer Between Worlds - Noelle Morrissette University of Georgia Press Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975. Through its attentiveness to Spencer’s published and unpublished work, her work as a librarian and an activist, and the political dimensions of her writing, Anne Spencer between Worlds transforms our understanding of Spencer. It offers a sustained examination of poetry and ecology, and the relationships among race, gender, and archives, through its analysis of the manuscripts that Spencer produced and revised throughout her life. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dismal-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683065384453-QLJJGNUK5KY9GJQA7U7V/M11_morris_dismal_pb_9781469668253_fc_2.jpg library - Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp - J. Brent Morris University of North Carolina Press The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early 17th century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers—established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/happy-dreams-of-liberth monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683065173797-WU7JKHFYM0A95Q1D4W90/M10_morales_happy_dreams_of_liberty_cover.jpg library - Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom - R. Isabela Morales Oxford University Press When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the 52-year old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters and two nieces: all of them slaves. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/emmas-postcard-albun monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683064987290-T7STOQ4W2R2KFTISG1U4/M9_9781496843159.jpeg.jpg library - Emma's Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century - Faith Mitchell University Press of Mississippi In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the "cradle of liberty." Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than many realize. A community of Black activists had fought segregated education since the origins of public schooling and racial inequality since the end of northern slavery. Before Busing tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. It reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/before-busing monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683064611073-UUU2FM4KNEKK6IH53YJ8/M8_miletsky_before_pb_9781469662770_fc.jpg library - Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle - Zebulon Vance Miletsky University of North Carolina Press In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the "cradle of liberty." Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than many realize. A community of Black activists had fought segregated education since the origins of public schooling and racial inequality since the end of northern slavery. Before Busing tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. It reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/alain-locke-and-the-visual-arts monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683064390382-L4O2SWCGTAUXW1GO43P3/M7_mercer__alain_locke_and_the_visual_arts_cvr.jpg library - Alain Locke and the Visual Arts - Kobena Mercer Yale University Press Alain Locke (1885–1954), leading theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, maintained a lifelong commitment to the visual arts. Offering an in-depth study of Locke’s writings and art world interventions, Kobena Mercer focuses on the importance of cross-cultural entanglement. This distinctive approach reveals Locke’s vision of modern art as a dynamic space where images and ideas generate new forms under the fluid conditions of diaspora, and eventually examines how Locke's investment in art was shaped by gay male aestheticism. Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/thinking-while-black monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683064119583-YDBOGM2CBF1WZV03JSF1/M6_mcneil_cover_final.jpg library - Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation - Daniel McNeil Rutgers University Press Thinking While Black brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as young Black teenagers in the late 1960s. Drawing on hidden and little known archives of resistance and resilience, it sheds new light on the politics and poetics of young people who came together, often outside of conventional politics, to rock against racism in the 1970s and early ‘80s. It re-examines debates in the 1980s and ‘90s about artists who “spread out” to mount aggressive challenges to a straight, white, middle-class world, and entertainers who “sold out” to build their global brands with performances that attacked the Black poor, rejected public displays of introspection, and expressed unambiguous misogyny and homophobia. Read more at Rutgers University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-tell-a-story-of-black-miami monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683063836083-UNAZL28TVCC5NC3PXYOU/M5_to_tell_a_black_story_of_miami_rgb.jpg library - To Tell a Black Story of Miami - Tatiana McInnis University Press of Florida Analyzing novels, short stories, and memoirs by Edwidge Danticat, M.J. Fievre, Carlos Moore, Carlos Eire, Patricia Stephens Due, and Tananarive Due, as well as films such as Dawg Fight and Moonlight, McInnis demonstrates how these creations push back against erasure by representing the experiences of Black Americans and immigrants from Caribbean nations. McInnis considers portrayals of state-sanctioned oppression, residential segregation, violent detention of emigres, and increasing wealth gaps and concludes that celebrations of Miami’s diversity disguise the pervasive, adaptive nature of white supremacy and anti-Blackness. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-unteachable monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683063611390-LZ3COPX9N49EHZEQLBAO/M4_mayes.jpg library - The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education - Keith A. Mayes University of Minnesota Press The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the 20th century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, it explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline effect. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/aint-i-an-anthropologist monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710338367-5R8EBO4XQPJYK0ZVCYI4/aint_i_an_anthropologist.jpg library - Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon - Jennifer Freeman Marshall University of Illinois Press Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston’s literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what sociocultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to two of Hurston’s areas of achievement by examining the critical response to her work across both fields. Drawing on a wide range of readings, Freeman Marshall explores Hurston’s popular appeal as iconography, her elevation into the literary canon, her concurrent marginalization in anthropology despite her significant contributions, and her place within constructions of Black feminist literary traditions. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-multiracial-promise monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683062979621-JDGLOW16YUNSLQIN0GUZ/M2_mantler_themultiracial_pb_9781469673868_fc.jpg library - The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America - Gordon K. Mantler University of North Carolina Press In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago. Washington's victory was unlikely not just because America's second city was one of the nation's most racially balkanized but also because it came at a time when Ronald Reagan and other political conservatives seemed resurgent. Drawing on a rich array of archives and oral history interviews, Gordon K. Mantler offers a bold reexamination of the Harold Washington movement and moment. Taking readers into Chicago's street-level politics and the often tense relationships among communities and their organizers, Mantler shows how white supremacy, deindustrialization, dysfunction, and voters' own contradictory expectations stubbornly impeded many of Washington's proposed reforms. Ultimately, Washington's historic victory and the thwarted ambitions of his administration provide a cautionary tale about the peril of placing too much weight on electoral politics above other forms of civic action—a lesson today's activists would do well to heed. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/william-levi-dawson monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683062749087-APF16VJFWV3W0FOWGVAV/M1_9781496844798.jpeg.jpg library - William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator - Mark Hugh Malone University Press of Mississippi William Levi Dawson (1899–1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and professor of music. In William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator, Mark Hugh Malone tells the fascinating tale of Dawson’s early life, quest for education, rise to success at the Tuskegee Institute, achievement of national notoriety as a composer, and retirement years spent conducting choirs throughout the US and world. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-dignity monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683062478536-LVJLGNVS2YMN17VEMW5H/L3_lloyd__black_dignity_cvr.jpg library - Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination - Vincent Lloyd Yale University Press This radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Black writing and action. Previously in the West, dignity has been seen in two ways: as something inherent in one’s station in life, whether acquired or conferred by birth; or more recently as an essential condition and right common to all of humanity. In what might be called a work of observational philosophy—an effort to describe the philosophy underlying the Black Lives Matter movement—Vincent W. Lloyd defines dignity as something performative, not an essential quality but an action: struggle against domination. Without struggle, there is no dignity. Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/america-goddam monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683062235521-P3LPPJ7XO6LEF76YKTYJ/L2_9780520384491.jpg library - America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice - Treva B. Lindsey University of California Press Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir, America, Goddam renders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. Lindsey also shows that the sanctity of life and liberty of Black women is rarely the focus of Black freedom movements. Defying this omission, Black women have led movements demanding justice for countless Black women and girls across generations and centuries. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/white-burgers-black-cash monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710926480-12MU0KH6E01A77MS37IJ/white_burgers.jpg library - White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation - Naa Oyo A. Kwate University of Minnesota Press Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Americans through targeted advertising. But throughout much of the 20th ceentury, fast food was developed specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully avoiding Black spaces. White Burgers, Black Cash traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities. Deeply researched, compellingly told, and brimming with surprising details, this book reveals the inequalities embedded in America’s popular national food tradition. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/cherie-quarters monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683062004891-YEN332MBVDJ7ZSBTHE1Y/L1_laneycherie_covfronthr.jpg library - Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines - Ruth Laney LSU Press Before he became an award-winning writer, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ernest J. Gaines was the son of sharecroppers in Cherie Quarters, a small Black community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Drawing on decades of interviews and archival research, Ruth Laney explores the lives and histories of the families, both kin and not, who lived in a place where “everybody was everybody’s child.” Built as slave cabins for the nearby River Lake Plantation in the 1840s, the houses of Cherie Quarters were cold in winter, hot in summer, filled with mosquitoes, and overflowing with people. Even so, the residents made these houses into homes. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/administering-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683061417659-T24YMNWBZZPTE0KT7Z2C/K4_kretz_administering_pb__9781469671024_fc.jpg library - Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau - Dale Kretz University of North Carolina Press The definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens. As claimants, Black southerners engaged an array of federal agencies. Their encounters with the more familiar Freedmen's Bureau and Pension Bureau are presented here in a striking new light, while their struggles with the long-forgotten Freedmen's Branch appear in this study for the very first time. Based on extensive archival research in rarely used collections, Dale Kretz uncovers surprising stories of political mobilization among tens of thousands of Black claimants for military bounties, back payments, and pensions, finding victories in an unlikely place: the federal bureaucracy. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/afrodiasporic-forms monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683061048402-DGCSSMZSQIMD4KP7L9BB/K3_kennonafro_covfronthr.jpg library - Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora - Raquel Kennon LSU Press Examining the transatlantic slave trade and modern racial slavery, Raquel Kennon challenges the US-centric focus of slavery studies and draws on a transnational, eclectic archive of materials from Lusophone, Hispanophone, and Anglophone sources in the Americas to inspect evolving, multitudinous, and disparate forms of Afrodiasporic cultural expression. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-live-peacably-together monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683060716504-4DKP57978HP18WQXSG6Y/K1_9780226817811frontcover_2021_11_07t02_01_00.jpg library - To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing - Tracy E. K'Meyer The University of Chicago Press The bitterly tangled webs of race and housing in the postwar United States hardly suffer from a lack of scholarly attention. But Tracy K’Meyer’s To Live Peaceably Together delivers something new to the field: a lively examination of a predominantly white faith-based group—the Quaker-aligned American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)—that took a unique and ultimately influential approach to cultivating wider acceptance of residential integration. K’Meyer details the spiritual and humanist motivations behind the AFSC, its members’ shifting strategies as they came to better understand structural inequality, and how those strategies were eventually adopted by a variety of other groups. Her fine-grained investigation of the cultural ramifications of housing struggles provides a fresh look at the last seventy years of racial activism. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-third-reconstruction monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683060500093-JGS8NKRDVN4NPDW4QOGA/J9_joseph_the_third_reconstruction_300dpi.jpg library - The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century - Peniel Joseph Basic Books America's Reconstruction era set off enduring battles between supporters of multiracial democracy and advocates of white supremacy. A century later, during the civil rights era, America's Second Reconstruction produced a fragile consensus that the quest for Black citizenship and dignity was a political and moral good. But the struggle over the true meaning of American democracy has burst back into the open, with the racial and political reckoning of 2020 marking the climax of America's third era of reconstruction. Joseph offers an essential new interpretation of the history shaping today's struggles. Drawing connections across centuries and insights from his own journey as a scholar-activist, he illuminates the election of Barack Obama, the white backlash of Donald Trump, and the transformative leadership of Black Lives Matter. We have before us now, he insists, a precious opportunity to choose love over fear -- to seize the chance to achieve Black dignity and citizenship at last. Read more at Basic Books/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-tuskegee-student-uprising monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683060082763-S1K3ZBWVGC69YY4N4A5Q/J7_9781479809424_fc.jpg library - The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History - Brian Jones NYU Press Drawing upon years of archival research and interviews with former students, professors, and administrators, Brian Jones provides an in-depth account of one of the most dynamic student movements in United States history. The book takes the reader through Tuskegee students’ process of transformation and intellectual awakening as they stepped off campus to make unique contributions to southern movements for democracy and civil rights in the 1960s. A compelling work of scholarship, The Tuskegee Student Uprising is a must-read for anyone interested in student activism and the Black freedom movement. Read more at NYU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/no-right-to-an-honest-living monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683060289389-S0PC9QKF0RUMTD7O1AAW/J8_jones_no_right_300dpi.jpg library - No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era - Jacqueline Jones Basic Books Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Read more at Basic Books/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-nature-of-slavery monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683059811056-ZIKJ1HUX5S69ZUMPLZMB/J6_johnston_nature_of_slavery.jpg library - The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World - Katherine Johnston Oxford University Press In response to abolitionist efforts to end the transatlantic slave trade in the late 18th century, plantation owners in the Caribbean, Britain, and the American South insisted that only Africans and their descendants could labor in warm climates. Black bodies, they argued, were especially suited for cultivating crops in the heat, while white bodies were incapable of such work. By examining personal correspondence regarding bodily health and the environment in the context of plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world, this book argues that defenders of slavery made these claims about people’s ability to labor despite their experiences, not because of them. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-black-fives monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/fda1579a-ae00-425f-97f4-64d65a8454b7/J5_black-fives-sticker.png library - The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era - Claude Johnson Abrams Books African Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From the invention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues in the 1950s, dozens of teams -- then often called "fives" -- of African American players were founded and flourished. This was a time of visionary players, managers, and impresarios who blazed a trail, battled discrimination and marginalization, and created rich, meaningful events that strengthened their communities in the face of Jim Crow oppression. But this era, known as the Black Fives Era, has been forgotten, overlooked, unacknowledged, and squashed. Claude Johnson has made it his mission to change that. Read more at Abrams Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/after-black-lives-matter monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683059283791-Y5WZ3JVAFQTQ83VAJHRY/J4_9781804291672.main.jgba46dbd223f0604203effe3a78dd195f.jpg library - After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle - Cedric Johnson Verso Books The murder of George Floyd prompted a historic uprising that transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did that movement fall short of the most militant demands to defund and dismantle police departments? After Black Lives Matter argues that the failure to make institutional changes was not a simple result of the mercurial and reactive character of the protests. Rather, the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that underpins the crisis of policing: socioeconomic inequality. Read more at Verso Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/claude-mckay monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710455105-9KKRT4GXNXMCH9ZIPMYG/claude_mckay.jpg library - Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik - Winston James Columbia University Press One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. McKay’s life and writing were defined by his class consciousness and anticolonialism, shaped by his experiences growing up in colonial Jamaica as well as his early career as a writer in Harlem and then London. Dedicated to confronting both racism and capitalist exploitation, he was a critical observer of the Black condition throughout the African diaspora and became a committed Bolshevik. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, James offers a rich and detailed chronicle of McKay’s life, political evolution, and the historical, political, and intellectual contexts that shaped him. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dancing-down-the-barricades monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683058803371-C9RPKOL2HR2H4CAB3ZBL/J2_9780520391802.jpg library - Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era, A Cultural History - Matthew Jacobson University of California Press Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/shelter monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683058473347-AVOKT4FAAOM66AHT3JTC/J1_9781644450833.jpg library - Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore - Lawrence Jackson Graywolf Press In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides fodder for this captivating memoir in essays. Read more at Graywolf Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dreaming-the-present monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710575359-0LB89F8EJHYPM71PHZQ7/dreaming_the_present.jpg library - Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement - Irvin J. Hunt University of North Carolina Press In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces “cooperatives,” local challenges to global capital, where people pooled all they had to meet their needs. By reading their activism as an artistic practice, Irvin Hunt argues that their primary need was to free their movement from the logic of progress. From a remarkably diverse archive, Hunt extrapolates three new ways to describe the time of a movement: a continual beginning, a deliberate falling apart, and a simultaneity, a kind of all-at-once-ness. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-bodies-in-the-river monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683057739197-YGLGCZFEIP5NUUV7FERY/H4_9781496840790.jpeg.jpg library - Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer - Davis W. Houck University Press of Mississippi Nearly 60 years after Freedom Summer, its events—especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner—stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the Mississippi Summer Project. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, movement veterans challenged this central narrative with the shocking claim that during the search for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, the FBI and other law enforcement personnel discovered many unidentified Black bodies in Mississippi’s swamps, rivers, and bayous. This claim has evolved in subsequent years as activists, journalists, filmmakers, and scholars have continued to repeat it, and the number of supposed Black bodies—never identified—has grown from five to more than two dozen. In Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer, author Davis W. Houck sets out to answer two questions: Were Black bodies discovered that summer? And why has the shocking claim only grown in the past several decades—despite evidence to the contrary? In other words, what rhetorical work does the Black bodies claim do, and with what audiences? Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/rest-is-resistance monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683057453581-RK5QFYSQU2MIB1QIENF7/H3_hersey_restisresistance_hc_nyt9780316365215_medium.jpeg.jpg library - Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto - Tricia Hersey Little, Brown Spark Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us. Rest Is Resistance is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. It is a call to action, a battle cry, a field guide, and a manifesto for all of us who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture. Read more at Little, Brown Spark/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-life-of-madie-hall-xuma monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683057182792-EG94Y61GGYMO1UGXTE3B/H2_hendrickss22.jpg library - The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid - Wanda A. Hendricks University of Illinois Press Revered in South Africa as an African American "Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Hendricks' biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women’s League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma’s life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women’s activism, and of South Africa and the United States. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blunt-instruments monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683056328116-FHR08UQFJ65Y5ET7QKQJ/H1_blunt_instruments.jpg library - Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices - Kristin Hass Beacon Press Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tirelessly to tell us vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/in-search-of-a-beautiful-freedome monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683042886863-R6IH1EMEBC33RSBA36AL/G4_cover_insearchof.jpg library - In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays - Farah Jasmine Griffin W.W. Norton & Company In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of soprano popular singers in the 1970s to the forging of a Black women’s literary renaissance and the politics of Malcolm X through the lens of Black feminism. She reflects on pivotal moments in recent American history—including the banning of Toni Morrison’s Beloved—and celebrates the intellectuals, artists, and personal relationships that have shaped her identity and her work. Read more at W.W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-grimkes monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/c374eb46-0e9f-4491-a87a-3b0180f781c1/G3_grimkes-sticker.png library - The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family - Kerri K. Greenidge Liveright/W.W. Norton & Co. The Grimke sisters are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents a parallel narrative, indeed a long-overdue corrective, shifting the focus from the white abolitionist sisters to the Black Grimkes and deepening our understanding of the long struggle for racial and gender equality. In a grand saga that spans the 18th century to the 20th and stretches from Charleston to Philadelphia, Boston, and beyond, Greenidge reclaims the Black Grimkes as complex, often conflicted individuals shadowed by their origins. Most strikingly, she indicts the white Grimke sisters for their racial paternalism. They could envision the end of slavery, but they could not imagine Black equality. A landmark biography of the most important multiracial American family of the nineteenth century, The Grimkes suggests that just as the Hemingses and Jeffersons personified the racial myths of the founding generation, the Grimkes embodied the legacy—both traumatic and generative—of those myths, which reverberate to this day. Read more at Liveright/W.W. Norton & Co. https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-life-matter monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683042205117-8XMGR8QYJI6KYV17Z3SV/G2_9781478014843.jpg library - Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject - Biko Mandela Gray Duke University Press Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. Gray employs a theoretical method he calls “sitting-with”—a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living. These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal violence enacted against them; they speak to a mode of life that cannot be fully captured by the brutal logics of antiblackness. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/school-clothes monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683041851522-R1L2LNK5S7LREZ209T72/G1_school_clothes.jpg library - School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness - Jarvis R. Givens Beacon Press Black students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for centuries, through the time of slavery, Emancipation, and the Jim Crow era. And for just as long—even through to today—Black students have been seen as a problem and a seemingly troubled population in America’s public imagination. Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the 19th and 20th centuries, Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines. He details the educational lives of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison; political leaders like Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis; and Black students whose names are largely unknown but who left their marks nonetheless. School Clothes elevates a legacy in which Black students are more than the sum of their suffering. By peeling back the layers of history, Givens unveils in high relief a distinct student body: Black learners shaped not only by their shared vulnerability but also their triumphs, fortitude, and collective strivings. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-patience monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683041486887-1R1MCFJVQQ4TXYV6VBG2/F1_9781479806829_fc.jpg library - Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation - Julius B. Fleming Jr. NYU Press In Black Patience, Julius B. Fleming Jr. argues that, during the Civil Rights Movement, Black artists and activists used theater to energize the radical refusal to wait. Participating in a vibrant culture of embodied political performance that ranged from marches and sit-ins to jail-ins and speeches, artists turned to theater to unsettle a violent racial project that Fleming refers to as “Black patience.” Inviting the likes of James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Douglas Turner Ward, Duke Ellington, and Oscar Brown Jr. to the stage, Black Patience illuminates how Black artists and activists of the Civil Rights era used theater to expose, critique, and repurpose structures of white supremacy. In this bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement, Fleming contends that Black theatrical performance was a vital technology of civil rights activism, and a crucial site of Black artistic and cultural production. Read more at NYU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/pursuing-john-brown monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683040915523-HWF391M5Z0GGP4DZ8Y4I/D3_dyerc_pjb_2.jpg library - Pursuing John Brown: On the Trail of a Radical Abolitionist - Joyce Dyer University of Akron Press The idea for Pursuing John Brown began in Hudson, Ohio, where John Brown grew up and where Joyce Dyer has lived for 40 years. In 2007, a chance occurrence started her off on the pursuit of her controversial neighbor, a quest that simultaneously pulled Dyer into his century, and John Brown into hers. In this work of hybrid creative nonfiction, Dyer retraces John Brown’s steps across the country, occasionally taking roads that lead to tangential sites. Along the way, intimate questions form about John Brown’s personal life -- his role as son, husband, father, friend. Her pursuit forces her to confront hard questions about slavery, race, violence, and American democracy and brings her closer to understanding John Brown, herself, and us. Read more at University of Akron Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/almost-dead monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683040637139-QRTG67DDR51Y53FPR2KO/D2_9780820362250.jpg library - Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 - Michael Lawrence Dickinson University of Georgia Press Beginning in the late 17th century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead reveals how the thousands of captives who lived, bled, and resisted in the Black Urban Atlantic survived to form dynamic communities. Dickinson uses cities with close commercial ties to shed light on similarities, variations, and linkages between urban Atlantic slave communities in mainland America and the Caribbean. The study adopts the perspectives of those enslaved to reveal that, in the eyes of the enslaved, the distinctions were often of degree rather than kind as cities throughout the Black Urban Atlantic remained spaces for Black oppression and resilience. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-emancipation-circuit monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/bce423ae-930b-432f-a8e5-b3f2ef24f714/D1_emancipation-circuit3-sticker.png library - The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom - Thulani Davis Duke University Press Thulani Davis provides a rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South. Drawing on the practices of community they developed while enslaved, freedpeople built new settlements and created a network of circuits through which they imagined, enacted, and defended freedom. These circuits linked rural and urban organizations, labor struggles, and political culture with news, strategies, education, and mutual aid. Mapping the emancipation circuits, Davis shows the geography of ideas of freedom---circulating on shipping routes, via army maneuvers, and with itinerant activists---that became the basis for the first mass Black political movement for equal citizenship in the United States. In this work, she reconfigures understandings of the evolution of southern Black political agendas while outlining the origins of the enduring Black freedom struggle from the Jim Crow era to the present. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/shirley-chisholm monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683040040028-AEJ0GSV5592QTL0T7QK5/C4_curwood_shirley_hb_9781469671178_fc.jpg library - Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics - Anastasia C. Curwood University of North Carolina Press Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to create a definitive account of a consequential life. In so doing, Curwood suggests new truths for understanding the social movements of Chisholm's time and the opportunities she forged for herself through multicultural, multigenerational, and cross-gender coalition building. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/howardena-pindell monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683039846003-551W8UFERN39MFX330Q3/C3_cowan_howardena_pindell.jpg library - Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction - Sarah Louise Cowan Yale University Press A fascinating examination of the multifaceted career of artist, activist, curator, and writer Howardena Pindell (b. 1943) offering a fresh perspective on her abstract practice from the late 1960s through the early 1980s—a period in which debates about Black Power, feminism, and modernist abstraction intersected in uniquely contentious yet generative ways. Sarah Louise Cowan not only asserts Pindell’s rightful place within the canon but also recenters dominant historical narratives to reveal the profound and overlooked roles that Black women artists have played in shaping modernist abstraction. Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-activist-collector monthly 0.5 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683039609823-EVGL89UQT3PWFE04U8SX/C2_clarke_the_activist_collector_frtcvr.jpg library - The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner's 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa - Christa Clarke Rutgers University Press In 1938 Lida Clanton Broner, an African American hairstylist and housekeeper from Newark, New Jersey, traveled to pre-apartheid South Africa, fulfilling a lifelong goal of visiting the continent of her ancestors. As she traveled through South African giving speeches on race pride to social clubs, schools, and especially to women's groups, Broner amassed a collection of handicraft given by the many people she met "to show in America". Art historian and curator Christa Clarke has pursued the threads of Broner's collection, artfully weaving together people and ideas across the Atlantic connected by a shared vision of black liberation. By reconstructing the journey of this intrepid collector and her activist exhibitions, the book brings to life the story of an "ordinary" woman from Newark who was, in fact, quite extraordinary. Read more at Rutgers University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/historic-black-neighborhoods-of-raleigh monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683039283117-8QWVLCITXINXC9TM6RHY/C1_9781467150880.jpg library - Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh - Carmen Wimberley Cauthen The History Press/Arcadia The story of Raleigh’s African American communities begins before the Civil War with towns like Oberlin Village, built by free people of color. The creation of 13 freedmen’s villages defined the racial boundaries of Raleigh during Reconstruction and demonstrate the determination and resilience of these formerly enslaved North Carolinians. After World War II, new suburbs sprang up, telling tales of the growth and struggles of the Black community under Jim Crow. Many of these communities endure today. Dozens of never-before-published pictures and maps illustrate this hidden history. Read more at The History Press/Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/by-hands-now-known monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710421619-WS4FVAZ5GZCZSIZTVDUE/by_hands_now_known.jpg library - By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners - Margaret Burnham W.W. Norton & Company If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law? Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-20th-century South, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period and through to today. Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a decade and exceeding 1,000 cases of racial violence, she reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of those whose stories have not yet been heard. Read more at W.W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/borderland-blacks monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683038584701-FDYCNTQ6BNG8W7BGGVAQ/B13_broyldborderland_jktfronthr.jpg library - Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region during the Final Decades of Slavery - dann Broyld LSU Press In the early 19th century, Rochester, New York and St. Catharines, Canada West were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and temperance. Moreover, these urban centers were home to sizable free Black communities as well as an array of individuals engaged in the abolitionist movement, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Anthony Burns, and Hiram Wilson. dann j. Broyld explores the status and struggles of transient Blacks within this dynamic zone, where the cultures and interests of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the African Diaspora overlapped. Too often, historians have focused on the one-way flow of fugitives on the Underground Railroad from America to Canada when in fact the situation on the ground was far more fluid, involving two-way movement and social collaborations. Borderland Blacks reveals that physical separation via formalized national barriers did not sever concepts of psychological memory or restrict social ties. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/serving-herself monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683038280372-RWA72OIRDU98MMKPQ0AR/B12_brown_serving_herself_cover.jpg library - Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson - Ashley Brown Oxford University Press Brown narrates the public career and private struggles of Althea Gibson, setting the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-20th century's life and choices against the backdroup of the Great Migration, Jim Crow racism, the integration of American sports, the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and second wave feminism. Throughout her life Gibson continuously negotiated the expectations of her supporters and adversaries. An incredibly talented, ultra-competitve, and not always likeable athlete, Gibson wanted to be treated as an individual first and foremost, not as a member of a specific race or gender. A compelling life and time portrait, Serving Herself offers a revealing look at the rise and fall of a fiercely independent trailblazer who satisfied her own needs and simultaneously set a pathbreaking course for Black athletes. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-persistence-of-school-segregation-in-new-york-city monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1683037617226-L1W1YYHCTS4UUXX17N4D/B11_bonastia_cover.jpg library - The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City - Christopher Bonastia Stanford University Press Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems. Tracing the quest for integration in education from the mid-1950s to the present, The Battle Nearer to Home follows the tireless efforts by educational activists to dismantle the deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities that segregation reinforces. Read more at Stanford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/fear-of-a-black-republic monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682982066404-1208NSRIYQIE6R7IP5EC/A2_alexanderf22.jpg library - Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States - Leslie M. Alexander University of Illinois Press The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander’s study reveals the untold story of how free and enslaved Black people in the United States defended the young Caribbean nation from forces intent on maintaining slavery and white supremacy. Concentrating on Haiti’s place in the history of Black internationalism, Alexander illuminates the ways Haitian independence influenced Black thought and action in the United States. As she shows, Haiti embodied what whites feared most: Black revolution and Black victory. Thus inspired, Black activists in the United States embraced a common identity with Haiti’s people, forging the idea of a united struggle that merged the destinies of Haiti with their own striving for freedom. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-slow-calculated-lynching monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682982762111-GEYOZDZMJXSUXTVZLFNK/A4_9781496844040.jpeg.jpg library - A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard - Devery S. Anderson University Press of Mississippi In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kennard (1927–1963), a Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, attempted repeatedly to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College—now the University of Southern Mississippi—in the late 1950s. Devery S. Anderson tells the story of a man who paid the ultimate price for trying to attend a white college during Jim Crow. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/mississippi-zion monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cda8078d-96fc-43f4-8f09-1c152caad451/A5_9781496839725.jpeg.jpg library - Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865–1915 - Evan Howard Ashford University Press of Mississippi From lesser-known state figures to the ancestors of Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, and James Meredith, Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865–1915 brings the voices and experiences of everyday people to the forefront and reveals a history dictated by people rather than eras. Author Evan Howard Ashford, a native of the county, examines how African Americans in Attala County, after the Civil War, shaped economic and social politics as a nonmajority racial group. At the same time, Ashford provides a broader view of Black life occurring throughout the state during the same period. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/writing-the-black-diasporic-city monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5ee10ffd-1f81-487c-b356-3ffd608f5589/B1_bailey_cvr_final.jpg library - Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization - Carol Bailey Rutgers University Press Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of 20th- and 21st-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Read more at Rutgers University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/do-you-remember monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682983832879-JU5YOPEVVN37Q6HH4P8S/B2_9781496843098.jpeg.jpg library - Do You Remember? Celebrating Fifty Years of Earth, Wind & Fire - Trenton Bailey University Press of Mississippi Trenton Bailey traces the humble beginning of Maurice White, his development as a musician, and his formation of Earth, Wind & Fire, a band that became a global phenomenon during the 1970s. During the 21st century, the band received numerous accolades and lifetime achievement and hall of fame awards, and has remained relevant today, collaborating with younger artists while maintaining their classic sound. Earth, Wind & Fire stood apart from other soul bands with their philosophical lyrics and extravagant visual art, much of which is studied in the book, including album covers, concerts, and music videos. The lyrics of hit songs are examined alongside an analysis of the band’s chart success. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/sculpture-at-the-ends-of-slavery monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682984252782-FUH6R2XMER1M8NA6R2IR/B3_9780520343269.jpg library - Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery - Caitlin Meehye Beach University of California Press From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery sheds light on the complex—and at times contradictory—place of such works as they moved through a world contoured both by the devastating economy of enslavement and by international abolitionist campaigns. By examining matters of making, circulation, display, and reception, Caitlin Meehye Beach argues that sculpture stood as a highly visible but deeply unstable site from which to interrogate the politics of slavery. With focus on works by Josiah Wedgwood, Hiram Powers, Edmonia Lewis, John Bell, and Francesco Pezzicar, Beach uncovers both the radical possibilities and the conflicting limitations of art in the pursuit of justice in racial capitalism's wake. Read more at University of California Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-homesteaders-of-the-south monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682984650729-CF91I1VPAN10PUBZA719/B4_9871467152303.jpg library - Black Homesteaders of the South - Bernice Alexander Bennett The History Press/Arcadia Publishing The Homestead Act of 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation and subsequent Reconstruction amendments didn’t just abolish slavery—they gave African Americans a chance to earn a living and own land. Even though their names were never mentioned alongside the other rugged heroes of frontier lore, a startling number of homesteaders were Black men and women in the South, toiling on familiar land but now in unfamiliar fashion—as owners. For many of these Black pioneers, this meant risking their lives to achieve this American promise of freedom. Author Bernice Alexander Bennett sets to change the narrative about the largely unknown Black homesteaders in the South. Read more at The History Press/Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/spoken-word-a-cultural-history monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710693723-HIZ8EGQGXZ6UU10KOSXP/spoken_word.jpg library - Spoken Word: A Cultural History - Joshua Bennett Alfred A. Knopf A celebration of voices outside the dominant cultural narrative, who boldly embraced an array of styles and forms and redefined what—and whom—the mainstream would include, Bennett’s book illuminates the profound influence spoken word has had everywhere melodious words are heard, from Broadway to academia, from the podiums of political protest to cafés, schools, and rooms full of strangers all across the world. Read more at Alfred A. Knopf https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/stayed-on-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1689710726930-IW4MY8SB9DM0455AW3SK/stayed_on_freedom.jpg library - Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey - Dan Berger Basic Books The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South. Their commitment to each other and to social change took them on a decades-long journey that traversed first the country and then the world. In centering their lives, historian Dan Berger shows how Black Power united the local and the global across organizations and generations. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, Stayed On Freedom is a moving and intimate portrait of two people trying to make a life while working to make a better world.  Read more at Basic Books/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-healing-stage monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682985615765-IG387EKHXTYH7TQ6IDSP/B7_9780814214930.jpg library - The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation - Lisa Biggs The Ohio State University Press Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses and criminalize what women do to survive interpersonal and state violence. In The Healing Stage, Lisa Biggs reveals how four ensembles of currently and formerly incarcerated women and their collaborating artists use theater and performance to challenge harmful policies and popular discourses that justify locking up “bad” women. Read more at The Ohio State University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/soul-culture monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682985975678-GH9L10UCHXJ9JKL2ZL4I/B8_soul_culture_jacket_image.jpg library - Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up - Remica Bingham-Risher Beacon Press Acclaimed poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, and Patricia Smith, to explore the impact of identity, joy, love, and history on the artistic process. Each essay is thematically inspired, centered on one of her interviews, and uses quotes drawn from her talks to showcase their philosophies. Each essay also delves into how her own life and work are influenced by these elders. Examining cultural traditions, myths, and music from the Four Tops to Beyoncé, Bingham-Risher reflects on the enduring gifts of art and community. If you’ve ever felt alone on your journey into the writing world, the words of these poets are for you. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-on-black monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682986240397-V4Y0YEWJPOWSLY0J0SKN/B9_black_on_black_cover.jpg library - Black on Black : On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America - Daniel Black Hanover Square Press In his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the black church, Black on Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude, and survival of black people in a land where their body is always on display. Read more at Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/in-the-shadow-of-invisibility monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682986476577-QEZLK1SQO769Z05LK13V/B10_blandshadow_covfronthr.jpg library - In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy - Sterling Bland Jr. LSU Press In the Shadow of Invisibility traces the growth and transformation of Ellison’s ideas across his life and work, from his early apprentice writing that culminated in his groundbreaking first novel, Invisible Man, through the posthumous publication of his unfinished second novel, Three Days before the Shooting. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy, race, identity, social community, place, and political expression. Focused on his mythic vision of the promise of America, this book firmly situates Ellison in the sociopolitical environments from which his ideas arose, with close consideration of his published writings, including his influential essays on literature and jazz, as well as his working notes and correspondence. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-travon-generation monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1682966236272-H8O20T7NWNXEGAR6ZDHI/A1_alexander_thetrayvongeneration_9781538737897_hc.jpg library - The Trayvon Generation - Elizabeth Alexander Grand Central Publishing In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020, Elizabeth Alexander turned a mother's eye to her sons’ and students’ generation and wrote a celebrated and moving reflection on the challenges facing young Black America. The essay incisively and lovingly observed the experiences, attitudes, and cultural expressions of what she referred to as the Trayvon Generation, who even as children could not be shielded from the brutality that has affected the lives of so many Black people. The Trayvon Generation expands the viral essay that spoke so resonantly to the persistence of race as an ongoing issue at the center of the American experience. Alexander looks both to our past and our future with profound insight, brilliant analysis, and mighty heart, interweaving her voice with groundbreaking works of art by some of our most extraordinary artists. Read more at Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/counterrevolution monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/38be2cc3-debb-4be9-83c0-98a59e938b24/S6_steinberg_fc.jpg library - Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement - Stephen Steinberg Stanford University Press Since the civil rights revolution, marked by the passage of landmark civil rights laws in the '60s, gains have been steadily and systematically whittled away. As history testifies, revolution nearly always triggers its antithesis: counterrevolution. In this book Steinberg provides an analysis of this backlash, tracing the reverse flow of history that has led to the current national reckoning on race. Read more at Stanford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/fear-of-a-black-universe monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1652237883042-91BDZ7MTCF2LH7V8YFF1/A2_alexander_fear_of_a_black_universe_300dpi.jpg library - Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics - Stephon Alexander Hachette Book Group In this important guide to science and society, Alexander argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. In Fear of a Black Universe, Alexander shows that great physics requires us to think outside the mainstream. His approach leads him to three principles that shape all theories of the universe: the principle of invariance, the quantum principle, and the principle of emergence that he uses to explore some of physics' greatest mysteries, from what happened before the big bang to how the universe makes consciousness possible. Drawing on his experience as a Black physicist, he makes a powerful case for diversifying our scientific communities. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/boyz-n-the-void monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a8239403-35c8-4b32-9657-131aa9c36133/A4_9780807059487.jpg library - Boyz n the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother - G'Ra Asim Beacon Press How does one approach Blackness, masculinity, otherness, and the perils of young adulthood? G'Ra Asim blends music and cultural criticism and personal essay to explore race, gender, class, and sexuality as they pertain to punk rock and straight edge culture. Using totemic punk rock songs on a mixtape to anchor each chapter, the book documents an intergenerational conversation between a Millennial in his 30s and his zoomer teenage brother. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/white-lies monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/674c5aa0-2be4-4ab8-98b8-f38f3cc1fad5/B1_9780358447757.jpg library - White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret - AJ Baime HarperCollins Publishers Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to “pass” for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the seeds of the civil rights movement. Read more at HarperCollins Publishers https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/insurrection monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4025e7be-dbe0-4451-b6f6-5318b6047da0/insurrection.jpg library - Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship - Hawa Allan W. W. Norton & Company Allan’s distinctly literary voice underscores her paradigm-shifting reflections on the presence of fear and silence in history and their shadowy impact on the law. She draws revealing insight from her own experiences as one of the only black girls in her leafy Long Island suburb, as a black lawyer at a predominantly white firm during a visit from presidential candidate Barack Obama, and as a thinker about the use and misuse of appeals to law and order. Elegant and profound, deeply researched and intensely felt, Insurrection is necessary reading in our reckoning with structural racism, government power, and protest in the United States.. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/heir-to-the-crescent-moon monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f2da31d4-d66d-4163-af42-152c3d92f4e1/A1_cover+9781609387839.jpg library - Heir to the Crescent Moon - Sufiya Abdur-Rahman University of Iowa Press Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power–era converts to Islam, explores her father’s complicated relationship with Islam as well as her own while journeying from the Christian righteousness of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.’s 1950s Harlem, through the Malcolm X–inspired college activism of the late 1960s, to the unfulfilled potential of the early 1970s Black American Muslim movement. Abdur-Rahman weaves a vital tale about a family: Black, Muslim, and distinctly American. Read more at University of Iowa Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-black-reproductive monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f2eb6eca-40d9-4e62-98d2-a8c1773bc605/the_black_reproductive.jpg library - The Black Reproductive: Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood - Sara Clarke Kaplan University of Minnesota Press The Black Reproductive convenes Black literary and cultural studies with feminist and queer theory to read twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts and images alongside their pre-emancipation counterparts. These provocative, unexpected couplings include how Toni Morrison’s depiction of infanticide regenders Orlando Patterson’s theory of social death, and how Mary Prince’s eighteenth-century fugitive slave narrative is resignified through the representational paradoxes of Gayl Jones’s blues novel Corregidora. Throughout, Kaplan offers new perspectives on Black motherhood and gendered labor, from debates over the relationship between President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, to the demise of racist icon Aunt Jemima, to discussions of Black reproductive freedom and abortion. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/been-here-all-the-while monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654112108681-6UFJTOKUCFFONNCBZZT7/Screen+Shot+2022-06-01+at+3.32.15+PM.png library - I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land - Alaina Roberts University of Pennsylvania Press Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Read more at University of Pennsylvania Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/media-and-the-affective-life monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654112062818-WW5FHZNMSZZ40YV36NHQ/Screen+Shot+2022-06-01+at+3.31.52+PM.png library - Media and the Affective Life of Slavery - Allison Page University of Minnesota Press Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today, analyzing how media culture instructs viewers to act and feel in accordance with new racial norms created for an era supposedly defined by an end to legal racism. Page provides an in-depth look at the capitalist and cultural artifacts that teach the U.S. public about slavery, theorizing media not only as a system of representation but also as a technology of citizenship and subjectivity, wherein race is seen as a problem to be solved. Ultimately, she argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/climbing-the-ladder monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654112012517-TZ2B5VXSNE38KD3FBRFN/Screen+Shot+2022-06-01+at+3.33.22+PM.png library - Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream: The History of Homer G. Phillips Hospital - Candace O'Connor University of Missouri Press Candace O’Connor draws upon contemporary newspaper articles, institutional records, and dozens of interviews with former staff members to create the first, full history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, built to serve St. Louis’s rapidly expanding African-American population in 1937 amid a national period of institutional segregation and strong racial prejudice nationwide. For decades, the hospital thrived; by the 1950s, three-quarters of African-American babies in St. Louis were born at "Homer G". O'Connor brings new facts and insights into the life and mysterious murder (still an unsolved case) of the hospital’s namesake, a pioneering Black attorney and civil rights activist who led the effort to build the sorely needed medical facility in the Ville neighborhood. Read more at University of Missouri Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-pulp monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654111830543-2068EFAFW6CLPHEZML5U/Screen+Shot+2022-06-01+at+3.30.19+PM.png library - Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow - Brooks E. Hefner University of Minnesota Press Retooling genre conventions to criticize white supremacy, celebrate Black resistance, and imagine a more racially just world for antiracist purposes is nothing new. Hefner traces it back to a phenomenon that began in the 1920s by Black authors in Black newspapers with large circulations among middle- and working-class Black readers. These popular stories differ significantly from contemporaneous, now-canonized African American protest novels that tend to represent Jim Crow America as a deterministic machine and its Black inhabitants as doomed victims. Widely consumed but since forgotten, these genre stories—and Hefner’s incisive analysis of them—offer a more vibrant understanding of African American literary history. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/miseducated monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654111684947-OF3Y90NQDCKP39VH5A89/Screen+Shot+2022-06-01+at+3.27.45+PM.png library - Miseducated: A Memoir - Brandon P. Fleming Hachette Book Group From a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator —all by the age of 27. Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming’s transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/an-essay-for-ezra monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/c115ffba-7ac2-41a7-81a6-f6f9ceac4705/Screen+Shot+2022-06-01+at+3.26.16+PM.png library - An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America - Grant Farred University of Minnesota Press An Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a dynamic dialogistic exchange that is a commentary of and for its time, taking the measure of racial terror and of white supremacy both in our moment and as a historical phenomenon. Framed through the experiences of the author’s biracial son, An Essay for Ezra is intensely personal while also powerfully universal. Drawing on the social and political thought of James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, the ideas of Jameson, Barthes, Derrida, Adorno and Kant, and the comedy of Dave Chappelle, Farred examines the temptation and the perils of essentialism and the need to discriminate—to engage the black mind as much as the black body. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-walk-about monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654111184500-03YOKHTTMQF4420WVK5M/E4_cover__to_walk_about_in_freedom.jpg library - To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner - Carole Emberton W. W. Norton & Company Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, she grew up isolated and unsure of who she was and where she belonged―feelings that no emancipation proclamation could assuage. Her life story―candidly recounted in an oral history for the Federal Writers’ Project―captures the intimate nature of freedom. Using Joyner’s interview and the interviews of other formerly enslaved people, Emberton uncovers the deeply personal, emotional journeys of freedom’s charter generation―the people born into slavery who walked into a new world of freedom during the Civil War. From the seemingly mundane to the most vital, emancipation opened up a myriad of new possibilities: what to wear and where to live, what jobs to take and who to love. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/invisible-child monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654111039012-U4BEWYOAMZGGQ4TFVGQR/E3_9780812986945_6.jpg library - Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City - Andrea Elliott Random House In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-other-side-of-terror monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/43f50e11-733f-4254-9780-b8f1abd6097c/the_other_side_of_terror.jpg library - The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire - Erica R. Edwards NYU Press The Other Side of Terror offers an interdisciplinary Black feminist analysis of militarism, security, policing, diversity, representation, intersectionality, and resistance, while discussing a wide array of literary and cultural texts, from the unpublished work of Black radical feminist June Jordan to the memoirs of Condoleezza Rice to the television series Scandal. With clear, moving prose, Edwards chronicles Black feminist organizing and writing on “the other side of terror”, which tracked changes in racial power, transformed African American literature and Black studies, and predicted the crises of our current era with unsettling accuracy. Read more at NYU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/unfree-markets monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654110680670-XBGZHSLDDF7XIAVMHHZK/E1_edwards_unfreemarkets_cover.jpg library - Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina - Justene Hill Edwards Columbia University Press The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising livestock to trade and sell. They exchanged goods with nonslaveholding whites and even sold products to their enslavers. Did these pursuits represent a modicum of freedom in the interstices of slavery, or did they further shackle enslaved people by other means? Drawing on wide-ranging archival research to expand our understanding of racial capitalism, Unfree Markets shows the limits of the connection between economic activity and freedom. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/entertaining-race monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1654110512965-7HLP3SEHF0ZHNP1GYH7M/D6_entertaining_race_cover.jpg library - Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America - Michael Eric Dyson Macmillan Press For more than 30 years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson’s consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. Read more at Macmillan Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/not-a-nation monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/aa4eec66-c678-4345-b7b3-77bb80190d24/D5_nan.jpeg.jpg library - Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Beacon Press Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/building-antebellum monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/355dee17-0724-472b-af6b-37213bf48c14/D4_dudley_cover.jpg library - Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence - Tara A. Dudley The University of Texas Press The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city’s most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres—free people of color—in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how they used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. Read more at The University of Texas Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-spirit-of-our-work monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b7716394-da45-4434-961c-1bc371de8f74/D3_9780807013854.jpg library - The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member - Cynthia B. Dillard Beacon Press In The Spirit of Our Work, Dillard centers the spiritual lives of Black women educators and their students, arguing that spirituality has guided Black people throughout the diaspora. She demonstrates how Black women teachers and teacher educators can heal, resist, and (re)member their identities in ways that are empowering for them and their students, highlighting how educational settings might more carefully and conscientiously curate structures of support that pay explicit and necessary attention to spirituality as a crucial consideration. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/soundies monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0c6d1c44-ba2f-4ed4-a91a-0404f3b3773f/soundies_one_dime_at_a_time.jpg library - Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen - Susan Delson Indiana University Press In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today's music videos. Susan Delson takes a deeper look at these fascinating films by focusing on the role of Black performers in this little-known genre. She highlights the women performers, like Dorothy Dandridge, who helped shape Soundies, while offering an intimate look at icons of the age, such as Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole. Perfect for readers interested in film, American history, the World War II era, and Black entertainment history, Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen and its companion video website (susandelson.com) bring the important contributions of these Black artists into the spotlight once again. Read more at Indiana University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-strange-career monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ca076548-a854-4df5-b252-ca78929f3a68/D1_darda_fc.jpg library - The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism - Joseph Darda Stanford University Press What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Read more at Stanford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/no-common-ground monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5bf76c54-a63d-4cf7-b003-e4b259957eb5/C12_cox_no_hb_9781469662671_fc.jpg library - No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice - Karen L. Cox University of North Carolina Press When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/juneteenth monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0d445b37-7ad2-4441-90f4-2ce82507dd1f/C11_juneteenth_dj_pod_f.jpg library - Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration - Edward T. Cotham, Jr. State House Press Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of the national conversation about race, slavery, and how Americans understand, acknowledge, and explain what has been called the national “original sin.” But, why Juneteenth? Where did this celebration come from? What is the origin story? What are the facts, and legends, around this important day in the nation’s history? Using decades of research in archives around the nation, this book helps separate myth from reality and tells the story behind the celebration in a way that provides new understanding and appreciation for the event. Read more at State House Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/power-hungry monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/a8620d4a-5f3b-44ee-a891-89005bbefa60/C10_9781641604529.jpg library - Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement - Suzanne Cope Chicago Review Press Cleo Silvers in California; Aylene Quin in Mississippi. These two women’s tales tell the same story: how food was used by women as a potent and necessary ideological tool in both the rural south and urban north to create lasting social and political change. Threatened by this display of leadership, the FBI resorted to coordinated extensive and often illegal means to stop these two women and others using similar tactics: turning a blind eye to the firebombing of the children of a restaurant owner, destroying food intended for poor kids, and declaring a community breakfast program a major threat to public safety. Read more at Chicago Review Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-market monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cdd1a197-01a2-4a94-acad-991ab23f2e55/C9_black_market_cover.jpg library - Black Market : An Insider's Journey into the High-Stakes World of College Basketball - Merl Code Harlequin Trade Publishing A former college basketball player and Executive at Nike, Code's insider account into the business of college basketball exposes the corrupt and racist systems that exploit young athletes. Code shares the explosive story of college basketball's dark reality—a system that begins with young talent in AAU programs and culminates at the highest levels of the NBA. Urgent and eye-opening, Black Market exposes the truth to offer a more just way forward for both colleges and athletes. Read more at Harlequin Trade Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/just-pursuit monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/343421f8-a2c5-4a75-89b9-8c128b15cb93/C8_just_pursuit__cover.jpg library - Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness - Laura Coates Simon & Schuster On the front lines of our legal system, Coates -- a Department of Justice prosecutor -- explores how Black communities are policed differently; Black cases are prosecuted differently; Black defendants are judged differently. How the court system seems to be the one place where minorities are overrepresented, an unrelenting parade of Black and Brown defendants in numbers that belie their percentage in the population and overfill American prisons. Through revelatory and captivating scenes from the courtroom, Laura Coates explores the tension between the idealism of the law and the reality of working within the parameters of our flawed legal system, exposing the chasm between what is right and what is lawful. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-great-dissenter monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5734b420-e858-4306-9b01-d81437d6f5b0/C2_the_great_dissenter__cover.jpg library - The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero - Peter S. Canellos Simon & Schuster The most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court, John Marshall Harlan’s words helped end segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom almost a century after his death. But his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a enslaved man who John’s father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War, with Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the Supreme Court. Harlan’s dissents, particularly in Plessy v. Ferguson, were widely read and a source of hope for decades. Harlan’s words built the foundations for the legal revolutions of the New Deal and Civil Rights eras. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-better-life monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/86a58370-04cc-4bb4-9792-7dbde679167a/F2_9780820358413.jpg library - A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed - Andrew Feiler University of Georgia Press Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company, the world’s largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with black communities across the segregated South to build public schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the history of philanthropy―one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans―drove dramatic improvement in African American educational attainment and fostered the generation who became the leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/born-in-blackness monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/3f6eacf1-e07a-4da3-b16c-d53eb18c6362/howard-french-finalist-sticker-flat.png library - Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War - Howard W. French W. W. Norton & Company Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity? In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W. French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe’s dehumanizing engagement with the “dark” continent. Born in Blackness is epic history on the grand scale. In the lofty tradition of bold, revisionist narratives, it reframes the story of gold and tobacco, sugar and cotton―and of the greatest “commodity” of them all, the twelve million people who were brought in chains from Africa to the “New World,” whose reclaimed lives shed a harsh light on our present world. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/footnotes monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/8afc895e-b5a2-4424-b24d-36d2082dd6df/G1_9781492688815300rgb.jpg library - Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way - Caseen Gaines Sourcebooks Footnotes is the story of how composers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, along with comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, overcame poverty, racism, and violence to harness the energy of the Harlem Renaissance and produce Shuffle Along, the first all-Black musical to succeed on Broadway -- a runaway hit that launched the careers of many of the twentieth century's most beloved Black performers. Born in the shadow of slavery and establishing their careers at a time of increasing demands for racial justice and representation for people of color, they broke down innumerable barriers between Black and white communities at a crucial point in our history. Read more at Sourcebooks https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/arise-africa-roar-china monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/811f9c36-f753-474f-bbdd-c25a26ec5410/G2_gao_arise_hb_9781469664606_fc.jpg library - Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century - Yunxiang Gao University of North Carolina Press This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African Americans, combining the study of Black internationalism and the experiences of Chinese Americans with a transpacific narrative and an understanding of the global remaking of China's modern popular culture and politics. Gao reveals earlier and more widespread interactions between Chinese and African American leftists than accounts of the familiar alliance between the Black radicals and the Maoist Chinese would have us believe. Drawing from massive yet rarely used multilingual archival streams in China and in Chinatowns and elsewhere in the United States allows Gao to retell the well-known stories of Du Bois, Robeson, and Hughes alongside the sagas of Liu and Chen in a work that will transform and redefine Afro-Asia studies. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-citizen-education-program monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9d443dab-52f9-419d-bf78-d2aa28e54748/G3_citizenship_education_program_and_black_womens_political_culture_rgb.jpg library - The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture - Deanna M Gillespie University Press of Florida Gillespie traces the history of the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), a grassroots initiative that taught people to read and write in preparation for literacy tests required for voter registration - a profoundly powerful objective in the Jim Crow South. Drawing on teachers' reports and correspondence, oral history interviews, and papers from a variety of civil rights organizations, Gillespie follows the growth of the CEP from its beginnings in the South Carolina Sea Islands to Southeastern Georgia, the Mississippi Delta, and Alabama's Black Belt. This book retells the story of the civil rights movement from the vantage point of activists who have often been overlooked and makeshift classrooms where local people discussed, organized, and demanded change. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/fugitive-pedagogy monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ce756083-9520-41d5-98be-89088ea52fa0/jarvis_givens-finalist-sticker-flat.png library - Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching - Jarvis R. Givens Harvard University Press A fresh portrayal of Carter G. Woodson -- groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow, one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition. Black education was a subversive act from its inception, with African Americans pursuing education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. Developing what Givens calls a tradition of "fugitive pedagogy"—a theory and practice of Black education in America -- the enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. Teachers developed covert instructional strategies, creative responses to the persistence of White opposition. From slavery through the Jim Crow era, Black people passed down this educational heritage. Woodson's and their faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today. Read more at Harvard University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/on-juneteenth monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/484277d3-277f-4ba5-a47d-14e973aee7a1/G5_cover__on_juneteenth.jpg library - On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed W. W. Norton & Company Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. Reworking the traditional “Alamo” framework, she powerfully demonstrates, among other things, that the slave- and race-based economy not only defined the fractious era of Texas independence but precipitated the Mexican-American War and, indeed, the Civil War itself. In its concision, eloquence, and clear presentation of history, On Juneteenth vitally revises conventional renderings of Texas and national history. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/love-activism-and-the-respectable-life-of-alice-dunbar-nelson monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b7ad57e8-fd42-4237-b66f-42f836741a9d/G6_love_activism_and_the_respectable_life_of_alice_dunbarnelson.jpg library - Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson - Tara T. Green Bloomsbury Publishing Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until now, Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the first book-length look at this major figure in Black women's history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through the Harlem Renaissance. Green builds on Black feminist, sexuality, historical and cultural studies to create a literary biography that examines Dunbar-Nelson's life and legacy as a respectable activist – a woman who navigated complex challenges associated with resisting racism and sexism, and who defined her sexual identity and sexual agency within the confines of respectability politics. A book about the past that is also about the present and that nods to the future. Read more at Bloomsbury Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/heart-of-atlanta monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cd102012-ae96-4be5-887b-9d47a959dfd6/G7_heart_of_atlanta.jpg library - Heart of Atlanta: Five Black Pastors and the Supreme Court Victory for Integration - Ronnie Greene Chicago Review Press In Atlanta, Georgia, two arch segregationists vowed to flout the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the sweeping slate of civil rights reforms just signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson: Lester Maddox, soon to be governor of Georgia and lawyer Moreton Rolleston Jr. After the law was signed, a group of ministry students showed up for a plate of skillet-fried chicken at Maddox’s diner. At the Heart of Atlanta -- operated by Rolleston -- the ministers reserved rooms and walked to the front desk. Maddox greeted them with a pistol, axe handles, and a mob of White supporters; Rolleston refused to accept the Black patrons. These confrontations became the centerpiece of the nation's first two legal challenges to the Civil Rights Act. In gripping detail built from exclusive interviews and original documents, Heart of Atlanta reveals the saga of the case’s rise to the U.S. Supreme Court, which unanimously rejected the segregationists. Read more at Chicago Review Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/read-until-you-understand monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/3a0b0961-380c-48d8-a3b0-4947e9b13581/G8_cover__read_until_you_understand.jpg library - Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature - Farah Jasmine Griffin W. W. Norton & Company Griffin has taken to heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her, centering this book around love of the majestic power of words and love of the magnificence of Black life. Griffin entwines memoir, history, and art while she keeps her finger on the pulse of the present, asking us to grapple with the continuing struggle for Black freedom and the ongoing project that is American democracy. Here, she shares a lifetime of discoveries: the ideas that inspired the stunning oratory of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X, the soulful music of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, the daring literature of Phillis Wheatley and Toni Morrison, the inventive artistry of Romare Bearden, and many more. Exploring these works through such themes as justice, rage, self-determination, beauty, joy, and mercy allows her to move from her aunt’s love of yellow roses to Gil Scott-Heron’s Winter in America. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/divisions monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/16e408f9-983c-4023-a0f0-2d93ab6189c9/divisions.jpg library - Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military - Thomas A. Guglielmo Oxford University Press The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. Many Americans have long told themselves that its World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. Divisions offers a decidedly different view. Prizewinning historian Thomas A. Guglielmo draws together more than a decade of extensive research to tell sweeping yet personal stories of race and the military; of high command and ordinary GIs; and of African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. Guglielmo argues that the military built not one color line, but a complex tangle of them representing a sprawling structure of white supremacy. In response, freedom struggles arose, democratizing portions of the wartime military and setting the stage for postwar desegregation and the subsequent civil rights movements. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/unbroken-and-unbowed monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f09052b3-30cb-4e91-b6b3-5c20acd08b8c/H1_0664267378.jpg library - Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America - Jimmie R. Hawkins Westminster John Knox Press Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre-colonial times though the George Floyd protests of 2020 highlighting the role of Black identity in shaping protest: from slave ship mutinies, the abolitionist movement, different approaches to protest from Frederick Douglas, W. E. B. Dubois, and Booker T. Washington to protests led by Black institutions and BLM up through protests by today's Black athletes, musicians, and intellectuals Lebron James, Beyonce, and Kendrick Lamar. Hawkins also covers the backlash to these protests, including the Jim Crow era, the Red Summer of 1919, and modern-day wars on the Black community in the form of the War on Drugs and voter suppression. Read more at Westminster John Knox Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-harlem-uprising monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/630b0ff7-89b2-4e24-b565-03ce9daa566d/H2_hayes_harlemuprising_cover.jpg library - The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City - Christopher Hayes Columbia University Press In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a city that viewed itself as liberal. Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, from the city’s history of racial segregation in education, housing, and employment to the ways in which the police both neglected and exploited Black neighborhoods to the city’s power structure's continued refusal to address structural racism. This book provides a vivid portrait of postwar New York City, a new perspective on the civil rights era, and a timely analysis of deeply entrenched racial inequalities. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-rage-of-innocence monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b921bbec-75c9-47ac-97f9-feb3580c6e44/H4_9781524748906.jpg library - The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth - Kristin Henning Knopf Double Day Publishing Group A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse. Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children including the criminalization of Black adoles­cent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. Unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White Amer­ica and are denied healthy adolescent development. Read more at Knopf Double Day Publishing Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/strike-the-hammer monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/472d8f5e-b0b8-4c43-a26b-ad76d1234b7e/H5_hill_s21_cover_copy.jpg library - Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970 - Laura Warren Hill Cornell University Press Hill examines Rochester's long Civil Rights history and, drawing extensively on oral accounts of the northern, urban community, offers rich and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition. Augmenting oral testimonies with records from the NAACP, SCLC, and the local FIGHT, Strike the Hammer paints a compelling picture of the foundations for the movement. Hill leads us to consider the social, political, and economic environment more than fifty years ago and how that founding generation of activists left its mark on present-day Rochester. Read more at Cornell University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/america-on-fire monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/576deb80-2c66-4965-b335-eae28bad19f4/america_on_fire.jpg library - America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s - Elizabeth Hinton LiveRight/W. W. Norton & Company Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. The central lesson from these eruptions―that police violence invariably leads to community violence―continues to escape policymakers, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-color-of-abolition monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b90fbcb3-25b1-4b8c-b0de-c838be40e367/H7_9781328900241.jpg library - The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation - Linda Hirshman University of Illinois Press In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves’ freedom. Conventional histories have seen Douglass’s subsequent departure for the New York wing of the Abolition party as a result of a rift between Douglass and Garrison. But, as Hirshman reveals, this completely misses a key cause of the rift: Maria Weston Chapman, known as “the Contessa”. Read more at HarperCollins Publishers https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/surviving-southampton monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f422a955-c7c4-4508-9e6e-d4d5ef8abb76/surviving_southampton.jpg library - Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community - Rebecca J. Holden University of Illinois Press The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-recovered-life-of-isaac-anderson monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/26cf7d73-20c0-49dc-b22c-50bb30a2fdb6/J1_9781496835147.jpeg.jpg library - The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson - Alicia K. Jackson University Press of Mississippi Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835–1906) was born a slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer, politician, publisher, and religious leader in the African American community in the state of Georgia. Elected to the state senate, Anderson replaced his white father there, and later shepherded his people as a founding member and leader of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church. Much of Anderson’s unique story has been lost to history—until now. In The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, Jackson presents a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious life and politics after emancipation. Gathering together threads from salvaged details of his life, Jackson sheds light on the varied perspectives and strategies adopted by Black leaders dealing with a society that was antithetical to them and to their success. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/admissions monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9e41b653-de6f-4b9d-b661-f138ac15d797/J2_james_admissions__9781538753484_hc.jpg library - Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School - Kendra James Grand Central Publishing With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, Admissions will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness. In Admissions, James looks back at the three years she spent at the Taft School, through stories, some troubling, others hilarious, by which she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. Read more at Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-bonds-of-inequality monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/cd2c720e-d610-4bb1-9779-42587eacca14/J3_jenkins9780226721545highres.jpeg.jpg library - The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City - Destin Jenkins The University of Chicago Press Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities’ dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide democratic input, and distribute wealth and power. Moving between the local and the national, The Bonds of Inequality uncovers how racial inequalities in San Francisco were intrinsically tied to municipal finance arrangements and how these arrangements were central in determining the distribution of resources in the city. By homing in on financing and its imperatives, Jenkins boldly rewrites the history of modern American cities, revealing the hidden strings that bind debt and power, race and inequity, democracy and capitalism. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/we-testify-with-our-lives monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/bf1f6fd0-4f2f-47b3-a8c9-dbd0d224465e/J4_johnson_wetestifywithourlives_cover.jpg library - We Testify With our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter - Terrence L. Johnson Columbia University Press Police killings of unarmed Black people have ignited a national and international response unlike any in decades. But differing from their civil rights-oriented predecessors, today’s activists do not think that the institutions and values of liberal democracy can eradicate structural racism. They draw instead on a Black radical tradition that, Terrence L. Johnson argues, derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. Considering the writings of Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, We Testify with Our Lives makes its case through a new narrative of the evolution of Black radicalism from the civil rights movement through the Movement for Black Lives. It forges new insights into Black Power’s vital contributions to debates on ethics, transnational politics, democracy, political solidarity, and freedom―and its potent resources for the ongoing struggle to build democratic possibilities for all. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/better-living-by-their-own-bootstraps monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/dd86a405-3f17-49a5-ad9a-2472cec854a6/J5_jonesbranch_cover.jpg library - Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 - Cherisse Jones-Branch University of Arkansas Press The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. Jones-Branch reveals how educated, middle-class Black women worked with their less-educated rural sisters to create all-female spaces where they confronted economic, educational, public health, political, and theological concerns free from white regulation and interference. Centered on the period between 1914 and 1965, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps brings long-overdue attention to an important chapter in Arkansas history, spotlighting a group of Black women activists who uplifted their communities while subverting the formidable structures of white supremacy. Read more at University of Arkansas Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-three-death-sentences-of-clarence-henderson monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1a6aeb96-91c9-456a-ad72-752a488ff35b/J6_threedeathsentencepb56368j.jpg library - The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Racial Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era - Chris Joyner Abrams Books Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper, was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn’t commit by a prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. The Communist Party and the NAACP sparred over who would take the lead on Henderson’s defense, during which time he spent years in prison away from a daughter he had never seen. The case pitted powerful forces—often those steering legal and journalistic institutions—attempting to use racism and Red-Scare tactics against a populace that by and large believed the case against Henderson was suspect at best. Ultimately, it’s a hopeful story about how even when things look dark, some small measure of justice can be achieved against all the odds, and actual progress is possible. It’s the rare book that is a timely read, yet still manages to shed an informative light on America’s past and future, as well as its present. Read more at Abrams Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/didnt-we-almost-have-it-all monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/da3c2239-00db-4b78-bb0e-e25b79d09dc9/K2_9781419749698_s3.jpg library - Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston - Gerrick Kennedy Abrams Books On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Kennedy deftly peels back the layers of Whitney’s complex story to get to the truth at the core of what drove her, what inspired her, and what haunted her. He focuses on the key elements that informed her life—her family; the two romantic relationships that shaped the entirety of her adult life; her fraught relationship to her own Blackness and the Black community; her drug and alcohol addiction; and, finally, the shame that she carried in her heart, which informed every facet of her life. Didn’t We Almost Have It All contextualizes Houston's struggles against the backdrop of tabloid culture, audience consumption, mental health stigmas, and racial divisions in America. It explores exactly how and why we lost a beloved icon far too soon. Read more at Abrams Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/say-it-loud monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ebdf46b2-8606-4a13-b424-570fe562d6b1/K3_sayitloud.jpg library - Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture - Randall Kennedy Knopf Double Day Group A collection of 29 provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time—from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. Kennedy is mindful of com­plexity, ambivalence, and paradox, and is always stirring and enlightening. Say It Loud! is a wide-ranging summa of Kennedy’s thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America. Read more at Knopf Double Day Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/grotesque-touch monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/20f2a82f-b2d2-44b4-bc1d-2dee6b8e6220/K4_king_grotesque_pb_9781469664644_fc.jpg library - Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives - Amy K. King University of North Carolina Press Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions of relationships between women living within the plantation system to confront its legacy in the present. King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in U.S. and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/walk-with-me monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/27b9b836-ebdc-4f97-b2b1-af503069ea41/L1_larson_walk_with_me_jacket.jpg library - Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer - Kate Clifford Larson Oxford University Press Kate Clifford Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's family and with those with whom she worked most closely. Walk with Me does justice to Fannie Lou Hamer's life, capturing in full the spirit, and the voice, that led the fight for freedom and equality in America at its critical moment. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-first-black-archeologist monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1054c87c-ef51-4eab-a5c5-a32a5b0f2ded/L2_cover_image.jpg library - The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert - John W. I. Lee Oxford University Press The untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert gained national prominence in the early 1900s, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and Europe, from contemporary publications, and from newly discovered documents, this book chronicles, for the first time, Gilbert's remarkable journey from the segregated public schools of Augusta, Georgia to the lecture halls of Brown University. Through his travels in Greece, western Europe, and the Belgian Congo, we learn about the development of African American intellectual and religious culture, and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of black students and educators. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-joy monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d705c5fa-5df2-46bc-aed3-5fe1cce6f121/L3_black_joy_cover.jpg library - Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration - Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts Simon & Schuster When Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote an essay on Black joy for TheWashington Post, she had no idea just how deeply it would resonate. But the outpouring of positive responses affirmed her own lived experience: that Black joy is not just a weapon of resistance, it is a tool for resilience. With this book, Tracey aims to gift her community with a collection of lyrical essays about the way joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life. Detailing these instances of joy in the context of Black culture allows us to recognize the power of Black joy as a resource to draw upon, and to challenge the one-note narratives of Black life as solely comprised of trauma and hardship. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/an-afro-indigenous-history monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4755e750-f22e-4c90-9493-420e011dde2e/M1_9780807011683_1.jpg library - An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States - Kyle T. Mays Beacon Press Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America, covering the civil rights movement and freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, and current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Black culture, Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom, sometimes together, and sometimes apart -- both consistently seeking to uproot white supremacy. Mays compels us to rethink our history as well as contemporary debates and to imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarity. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/philip-payton monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2c96783f-18b6-4059-9d53-8aa5c8782af2/M2_mcgruder_philippayton_cover.jpg library - Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem - Kevin McGruder Columbia University Press At the turn of the early twentieth century, Harlem, NY was predominantly white. Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation, founding the Afro-American Realty Company in 1903, and vowing to vanquish housing discrimination. Yet while Payton “opened” Harlem streets, his business model depended on continued racial segregation. Like white real estate investors, he benefited from the lack of housing options available to desperate Black tenants by charging higher rents, developing a specialty in renting all-Black buildings, rather than the integrated buildings he had once envisioned. His personal successes ultimately entrenched Manhattan’s racial boundaries. McGruder highlights what Payton’s story shows about the limits of seeking advancement through enterprise in a capitalist system deeply implicated in racial inequality. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/all-that-she-carried monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/e55e4a4d-b6dd-4acd-a339-70d950fbadc9/tiya-miles-finalist-sticker-flat.png library - All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake - Tiya Miles Penguin Random House In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-smoke monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/ec3cbb94-0158-49f0-8e08-08cab29fc4ce/M4_miller_black_hb_9781469662800_fc.jpg library - Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue - Adrian Miller University of North Carolina Press In Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restauranteurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are coming into their own today. It's a smoke-filled story of Black perseverance, culinary innovation, and entrepreneurship. Though often pushed to the margins, African Americans have enriched a barbecue culture that has come to be embraced by all. Miller celebrates and restores the faces and stories of the men and women who have influenced this American cuisine. This beautifully illustrated chronicle also features 22 barbecue recipes collected just for this book. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/beyond-slaverys-shadow monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/04e24e38-bf9c-4914-bac8-325e5cfb7525/M5_milteer_beyond_pb_9781469664392_fc.jpg library - Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South - Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. University of North Carolina Press On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery's Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from a wide array of sources to demonstrate that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the growing influence of white supremacy and proslavery extremism created serious challenges for free persons categorized as "negroes," "mulattoes," "mustees," "Indians," or simply "free people of color" in the South. Segregation, exclusion, disfranchisement, and discriminatory punishment were ingrained in their collective experiences. Nevertheless, in the face of attempts to deny them the most basic privileges and rights, free people of color defended their families and established organizations and businesses. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/soundscapes-of-liberation monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2783a1c4-327f-4962-bf83-3c080cd96ad4/M6_9781478014690.jpg library - Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France - Celeste Day Moore Duke University Press Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest, where African American musicians found financial and personal success as well as discrimination. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media and in each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music's centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/assata-taught-me monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1e4abcfc-4e5e-49bb-a8b0-c109817293ce/M7_assatataughtmecover.jpg library - Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives - Donna Murch Haymarket Books Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries --Black Panther and Cuban exile Assata Shakur -- this collection of essays by award-winning Panther scholar Murch explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration. Murch exposes the devastating consequences of state-sponsored overlapping lucrative punishment campaigns against gangs, drugs, and crime on poor and working-class populations of color. Organizing resistance has proven difficult, however this timely and urgent book shows how a youth-led political movement has emerged in recent years that challenges the bipartisan consensus on punishment and looks to the future through a redistributive, queer, and feminist lens. Murch frames the contemporary movement in relation to earlier struggles for Black Liberation, while excavating the origins of mass incarceration and the political economy that drives it. Read more at Haymarket Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/cedric-robinson monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5185bf57-f9a0-48b2-a58a-548e4e4d9ce9/M8_cedric_robinson.jpg library - Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition - Joshua Myers Polity Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century. In the first major book to tell his story, Myers shows how Robinson’s work interrogated the foundations of western political thought, modern capitalism, and changing meanings of race. Tracing the course of Robinson’s journey, Myers frames Robinson’s mission as aiming to understand and practice opposition to “the terms of order.” In so doing, Robinson excavated the Black Radical tradition as a form of resistance that imagined that life on wholly different terms was possible. In the era of Black Lives Matter, that resistance is as necessary as ever, and Robinson’s contribution only gains in importance. Read more at Polity https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/dont-let-it-get-you-down monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/89cd2b5a-fea4-4daf-a0ef-053721b0930f/N1_dont_let_it_get_you_down__cover.jpg library - Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body - Savala Nolan Simon & Schuster A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat. Don’t Let It Get You Down delivers an essential perspective on race, class, bodies, and gender in America today. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/sometimes-i-trip monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/86a2aed5-9e62-4717-839f-291dd2fef484/P2_perkins_sometimesitripon_9781538702741_tp.jpg library - Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be - Nichole Perkins Grand Central Publishing Examining pop culture’s impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman. Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Perkins boldly tackles the damage done to women, especially Black women, by society’s failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart. By using her own life and loves as a unique vantage point, Nichole humorously and powerfully illuminates how to take the best pop culture has to offer and discard the harmful bits, offering a mirror into our own lives. Read more at Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/south-to-america monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/227ba78e-77a7-46a5-8df1-4a471d9881c6/P3_southtoamerica_hc_c.jpg library - South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation - Imani Perry HarperCollins An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America. Weaving together stories of immigrant communities, contemporary artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her own ancestors, and her lived experiences, Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/bird-uncaged monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/c800648b-1aee-47e8-b3fd-a893fa505780/P4_birduncaged.jpg library - Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song - Marlon Peterson Hachette Book Group / Type Media Center From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. In Bird Uncaged, Peterson challenges the typical “redemption” narrative and our assumptions about justice. With vulnerability and insight, he uncovers the many cages—from the daily violence and trauma of poverty, to policing, to enforced masculinity, and the brutality of incarceration—created and maintained by American society. Bird Uncaged is a twenty-first-century abolitionist memoir, and a powerful debut that demands a shift from punishment to healing, an end to prisons, and a new vision of justice. Read more at Hachette Book Group / Type Media Center https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/unprotected monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1dae67ff-e59c-4cee-ba6d-01adba9c2f8f/P5_unprotectedpb46208j.jpg library - Unprotected - Billy Porter Abrams Books It’s easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking Tony and Grammy Award-winning star of Broadway’s Kinky Boots; and before he was an acclaimed recording artist, actor, playwright, director, and all-around legend, Porter was a young boy in Pittsburgh who was seen as different, who didn’t fit in. Porter’s Unprotected is the life story of a singular artist and survivor in his own words. Read more at Abrams Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/music-is-history monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/034d1637-86a1-4991-89b2-dcb7f89b7c36/Q1_musicishistory51431nyt_jf.jpg library - Music is History - Questlove Abrams Books Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapestry, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. These critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America. A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music’s most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America. Read more at Abrams Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-last-slave-ship monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/45b2f2f7-982a-4007-91ec-19cb899afc26/R1_the_last_slave_ship__cover.jpg library - The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning - Ben Raines Simon & Schuster The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide evidence of the crime, allowing the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-south monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/078f7699-983e-43b6-9cb8-4ac13af46b25/the_south_jim_crow.jpg library - The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives - Adolph L. Reed, Jr. Verso Books The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. In The South, Reed takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South. Reed illuminates the multifaceted structures of the segregationist order. The South is more than a memoir or a history. Through Reed's personal history and political acumen, we see America’s apartheid system from the ground up, not just its legal framework or systems of power, but the way these systems structured the day-to-day interactions, lives, and ambitions of ordinary working people. Read more at Verso Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/stephen-a-swails monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/adea5a7a-ea76-4730-a7c4-530ef60a1ade/R3_rheastephen.jpg library - Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Gordon C. Rhea LSU Press Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. Rhea’s biography, one of only a handful for any of the nearly 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War or figured prominently in Reconstruction, restores Swails’s remarkable legacy. Swails’s life story is a saga of an indomitable human being who confronted deep-seated racial prejudice in various institutions but nevertheless reached significant milestones in the fight for racial equality, especially within the military. His is an inspiring story that is especially timely today. Read more at LSU Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/maverick monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0e164d52-8842-4eab-b9a5-aeda9bebd5a5/R4_riley_maverick_300dpi.jpg library - Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell - Jason L. Riley Hachette Book Group In a career spanning more than a half century, Thomas Sowell, social theorist, has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but have also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. In the first-ever biography of Sowell, Jason L. Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors. Maverick showcases Sowell's most significant writings and traces the life events that shaped his ideas and resulted in a Black orphan from the Jim Crow South becoming one of our foremost public intellectuals. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-ledger-and-the-chain monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/96903781-eac0-478f-b482-a599ad6962b0/R6_rothman_ledger_and_chain_300dpi.jpg library - The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America - Joshua D. Rothman Hachette Book Group In The Ledger and the Chain, Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/young-gifted-and-black monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/aa01200a-868a-4a0f-8ac1-aeff2e9c3966/R7_young_gifted_and_black_a0355.jpg library - Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration - Sheila Wise Rowe InterVarsity Press Giving voice to the real-life stories of Black millennials and younger adults, Rowe goes beyond the common narrative that focuses solely on their success or struggle. Her stories of celebration and lament point toward hope, joy, and healing. Drawing from years of experience in counseling trauma and abuse survivors, she provides stories, reflections, and tools for Black readers of all ages and their allies. These stories offer an opportunity to explore, reflect, and journey toward healing from the barriers that affect their lives, the lives of their children, and their communities. Read more at InterVarsity Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-assault-on-elisha-green monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/6ed8dd6d-7f0d-46cd-bfeb-3d2a2431c03d/R8_runyon_assault_final_cvr_for_publ.jpg library - The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community - Randolph Paul Runyon University Press of Kentucky Runyon recounts one man's pursuit of justice over violence and racism in the nineteenth century. He tells the story of Elisha Green's life and follows the network of relationships that led to the assault on Green on a crowded train. In response, Green took legal action, winning his case against his assailants in March 1884. The significance of this case lies not only in the prevailing justice of the 1800s, but also in the fact that a black man won a lawsuit against two white men. In this engagingly written tale, Runyon masterfully interweaves background information with the immediacy of the harrowing attack and its aftermath, revealing the true character of the primary actors and the racial tensions unique to a border state. Read more at University Press of Kentucky https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/righteous-troublemakers monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/6a45132e-a7d0-49b8-bd73-d6f4c7e9cb6f/S1_righteous_troublemakers_cover__final.jpg library - Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America - Reverend Al Sharpton Harlequin Trade Publishing Righteous Troublemakers shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things—like Pauli Murray, whose early work informed Thurgood Marshall’s legal argument for Brown v. Board of Education, Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality. Sharpton also illuminates the lives of more widely known individuals, revealing overlooked details, historical connections, and a perspective informed by years of working on the front line of the social justice movement, to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the wheels of justice and the individuals who have helped advance its cause. Read more at Harlequin Trade Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/nonviolence-before-king monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d75b0baf-7926-4632-8a37-885a34a06ba8/S2_siracusa_nonviolence_p_9781469663005_fc.jpg library - Nonviolence before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle - Anthony C. Siracusa University of North Carolina Press In the early 1960s, organizers against segregation had used litigation and protests for decades but not until the advent of nonviolence did they succeed in transforming ingrained patterns of white supremacy on a massive scale. Siracusa unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutionary force for Black liberation. Siracusa challenges the idea that nonviolent freedom practices faded with the rise of the Black Power movement, insisting that the indwelling commitment to struggle for freedom collectively in a spirit of nonviolence became, for many, a lifelong commitment. In the end, what was revolutionary about the nonviolent method was its ability to assert the basic humanity of Black Americans, to undermine racism's dehumanization, and to insist on the right to be. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/behind-the-big-house monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9395755a-c401-4fc4-a4c7-768ff23128a7/S3_skipper_cvr_hires.jpg library - Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South - Jodi Skipper University of Iowa Press When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. In laying out her experiences with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture through an autoethnographic approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation. Read more at University of Iowa Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/behold-the-land monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/14dadb85-4b89-4409-90bc-ecfff681e935/S4_smethurst_behold_pb_9781469663043_fc.jpg library - Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South - James Smethurst University of North Carolina Press Smethurst investigates the origins, development, maturation, and decline of the vital but under-studied Black Arts movement in the South from the 1960s until the early 1980s. Traveling across the South, he chronicles the movement's radical roots, its ties to interracial civil rights organizations on the Gulf Coast, and how it thrived on college campuses and in southern cities. He traces the movement's growing political power as well as its disruptive use of literature and performance to advance Black civil rights. Though recognition of its influence has waned, Smethurst argues that the movement's southern strain was perhaps the most consequential, successfully reaching the grassroots and leaving a tangible, local legacy unmatched anywhere else in the United States. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/how-the-word-is-passed monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/23ec74d1-9e9e-4f51-a404-316860d97150/how_the_word_is_passed.jpg library - How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith Little, Brown and Company Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted. Read more at Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blackface monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1ff9f30f-56a9-4df2-9094-317c0f3fd38f/T1_blackface__cover.jpg library - Blackface - Ayanna Thompson Bloomsbury Publishing Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a vile thread --sometimes it's tied into a noose -- that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms. Read more at Bloomsbury Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/and-the-category-is monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/559233bc-6e26-4de6-aa6f-210341f016a9/T2_9780807003480.jpg library - And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community - Ricky Tucker Beacon Press What is Ballroom? It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a fearless response to the systemic marginalization of minority populations. At the height of public intrigue and awareness about Ballroom, Tucker’s compelling narratives help us understand its relevance in pop culture, dance, public policy with regard to queer communities, and so much more. Welcome to the norm-defying realness of Ballroom. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/three-girls-from-bronzeville monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/75eb0459-9274-44a3-acac-0ac374291ba3/T3_three_girls_from_bronzeville__cover.jpg library - Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood - Dawn Turner Simon & Schuster They were three Black girls that bonded as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville on Chicago’s South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement that offers a promise, albeit nascent and fragile, that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. And then fate intervenes. Three Girls is at once a celebration of sisterhood and friendship, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption. Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-harman-renaissance monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/9a24ff8d-562a-403b-85de-f13666b28b0a/T4_turner_harlan_des_cov_lg_cmyk.jpg library - The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns - William H. Turner West Virginia University Press Unfolding through layers of sociological insight and oral history, The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky’s coal towns. Turner reconstructs Black life in the company towns in and around Harlan County during coal’s final postwar boom years, which built toward an enduring bust as the children of Black miners, like the author, left the region in search of better opportunities. Read more at West Virginia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/pushing-cool monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5187ce9d-bfbb-4343-84e7-2d57065675af/pushing_cool.jpg library - Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette - Keith A. Wailoo The University of Chicago Press Black smokers overwhelmingly prefer menthol brands such as Kool, Salem, and Newport. In Pushing Cool, Wailoo tells the intricate and poignant story of menthol cigarettes for the first time. He pulls back the curtain to reveal the hidden persuaders who shaped menthol buying habits and racial markets across America: the world of tobacco marketers, consultants, psychologists, and social scientists, as well as Black lawmakers and civic groups including the NAACP. In 2009, when Congress banned flavored cigarettes as criminal enticements to encourage youth smoking, menthol cigarettes were also slated to be banned. Through a detailed study of internal tobacco industry documents, Wailoo exposes why they weren’t and how they remain so popular with Black smokers. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/maria-w-stewart monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/e55dfd2e-e5e6-4f10-80b0-51dc7d110a0d/W2_9781496836748_+Colin+O%27Reilly.jpg library - Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought - Kristin Waters University Press of Mississippi Between 1831 and 1833, Stewart’s intellectual productions, as she called them, ranged across topics from true emancipation for African Americans, the Black convention movement, the hypocrisy of white Christianity, Black liberation theology, and gender inequity. Along with Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, her body of work constitutes a significant foundation for a moral and political theory that is finding new resonance today―insurrectionist ethics. In this work of recovery, author Kristin Waters examines the roots of Black political activism in the petition movement through the story and writings of this remarkable but largely unheralded woman and pioneering public intellectual. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-souls-of-womenfolk monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/63f011ce-f329-48d4-aab4-be327d63dfb1/W3_wellsoghoghomeh_souls_pb_9781469663609_fc.jpg library - The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South - Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh University of North Carolina Press Women responded on many levels—ethically, ritually, and communally—to southern slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women's lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-centered cultures that shaped the religious consciousness and practices of entire enslaved communities. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Wells-Oghoghomeh shows how they remembered, reconfigured, and innovated beliefs and practices circulating between Africa and the Americas. In this way, she redresses the exclusion of enslaved women from the American religious narrative. Challenging conventional institutional histories, this book opens a rare window onto the spiritual strivings of one of the most remarkable and elusive groups in the American experience. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/reclamation monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/e7e6b4e3-d50a-4444-9f12-76076d0419a3/W4_white_reclamation_hc.jpg library - Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy - Gayle Jessup White HarperCollins A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved. For four decades White researched her connection to Thomas Jefferson, to confirm its truth once and for all. Poring through photos and documents and pursuing DNA evidence, she learned that not only was she a descendant of Jefferson but also of Peter Hemings, Sally Hemings’s brother. In Reclamation she chronicles her journey to definitively understand her heritage and reclaim it, and offers a compelling portrait of what it means to be a black woman in America, to pursue the American dream, to reconcile the legacy of racism, and to ensure the nation lives up to the ideals advocated by her legendary ancestor. Read more at HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/twice-forgotten monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/b4a7141f-cb19-40a9-bf3e-a5a827903f61/C7_cline_twice_c_9781469664538_fc.jpg library - Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History - David P. Cline University of North Carolina Press Journalists began to call the Korean War "the Forgotten War" even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/cracking-up monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0e39e651-29ad-485b-8e5d-91d57817414c/W6_wood_highres300.jpg library - Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States - Katelyn Hale Wood University of Iowa Press Cracking Up archives and analyzes Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years, showing how Black feminist comedy and the laughter it ignites are vital components of feminist, queer, and anti-racist protest. Framing stand-up comedy as an important platform from which to examine citizenship in the United States, articulate Black feminist political thought, and subvert structures of power, Wood also champions comedic performance and theatre history as imperative contexts for advancing historical studies of race, gender, and sexuality. From the comedy routines popular on Black vaudeville circuits to stand-up on contemporary social media platforms, Cracking Up excavates an overlooked history of Black women who have made the art of joke-telling a key part of radical performance and political engagement. Read more at University of Iowa Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-black-president monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f3303b8f-b316-4cee-8d2a-8d175d5dc10d/C6_9781421441887_563de.jpeg.jpg library - The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama - Claude Andrew Clegg, III Johns Hopkins University Press The first interpretative, comprehensive history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety. In Obama's own words, his White House years were "the best of times and worst of times" for Black America. Clegg is vitally concerned with the veracity of this claim, along with how Obama engaged the aspirations, struggles, and disappointments of his most loyal constituency and how representative segments of Black America engaged, experienced, and interpreted his historic presidency. Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not only for historians, politics junkies, and Obama fans but also for anyone seeking to understand America's contemporary struggles with inequality, prejudice, and fear. Read more at Johns Hopkins University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/take-back-what-the-devil-stole monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/3d0d3910-39a3-4c9f-9952-e681b4ad4a9e/W7_woodbine_takebackwhatthedevilstole_cover.jpg library - Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World - Onaje X.O. Woodbine Columbia University Press Take Back What the Devil Stole centers the encounters of an African American woman in Boston with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women’s religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna’s religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/presumed-guilty monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/f31be0e8-27e8-43ef-bc17-3b174637ea53/C5_cover__presumed_guilty.jpg library - Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights - Erwin Chemerinsky W. W. Norton & Company Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans―in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an officer. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but the horrific result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and, crucially, the courts to presume that suspects―especially people of color―are guilty before being charged. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-silent-shore monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4fe514b2-7117-4941-9005-c3deea21efda/C4_chavis_cover.jpg library - The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State - Charles L. Chavis Jr. Hopkins Press December 4, 1931. Salisbury, Maryland. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Read more at Hopkins Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/white-space-black-hood monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2e1b9d6b-8a32-4092-b62f-2ea0f14db856/C3_9780807000298_1.jpg library - White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality - Sheryll Cashin Beacon Press The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. In White Space, Black Hood, Sheryll Cashin traces the history of anti-Black residential caste—boundary maintenance, opportunity hoarding, and stereotype-driven surveillance—and unpacks its current legacy so we can begin the work to dismantle the structures and policies that undermine Black lives. Drawing on nearly 2 decades of research in cities including Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Cleveland, Cashin traces the processes of residential caste as it relates to housing, policing, schools, and transportation with the goal of changing the lens through which society sees residents of poor Black neighborhoods from presumed thug to presumed citizen, and transforming the relationship of the state with these neighborhoods from punitive to caring. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-house-built-by-slaves monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/656b50de-aa3e-4e44-80b3-45921751a6e6/W5_9781538161807_fc.jpg library - A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House - Jonathan W. White Rowman & Littlefield Publishers White illuminates how Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. From his 1862 meetings with Black Christian ministers, Lincoln began inviting African Americans of every background into his home, from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. More than a good-will gesture, the president conferred with his guests about the essential issues of citizenship and voting rights. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how African Americans used the White House as a national stage to amplify their calls for equality. Even 155 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s inclusion of African Americans remains a necessary example in a country still struggling from racial divisions today. Read more at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-black-gaze monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/d2a8ddad-8122-4c17-94e2-92afa67ba14a/C1_a_black_gaze.jpg library - A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See - Tina Campt The MIT Press In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. She focuses on artists whose works require viewers to do more than simply look; they solicit visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity -- shifting viewers from the passive optics of looking at to the active struggle of looking with, through, and alongside the suffering--and joy--of Black life in the present. Writing with rigor and passion, Campt describes the creativity, ingenuity, cunning, and courage that is the modus operandi of a Black gaze. 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She defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. The first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary. Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life. Read more at Alfred A. Knopf https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/punch-me-up-to-the-gods monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5522c6ea-8ec2-4d87-829b-316ffedf7cb3/B8_9780358439103.jpg library - Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir - Brian Broome HarperCollins Publishers Cleverly framed around Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem We Real Cool, the iconic and loving ode to Black boyhood, Punch Me Up to the Gods is at once playful, poignant, and wholly original. 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Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Benjamin brings together McKay's private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/until-i-am-free monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/05c17370-7e9c-4753-ab82-1c0ba93dda8c/B5_9780807061503_1.jpg library - Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America - Keisha N. Blain Beacon Press Social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality, and social justice. Hamer’s words and ideas take center stage, allowing us all to hear the activist’s voice and deeply engage her words, as though we had the privilege to sit right beside her. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/race-against-time monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/5730dcef-486f-4c80-af12-12e482913a8d/B6_raceagainsttime_front.jpg library - Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America - Keith Boykin Hachette Book Group / Type Media Center America can no longer avoid its long overdue reckoning with the past. 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The civil rights movement develops from the grassroots activism of Montgomery and the sit-ins, through the violence of Birmingham and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the frustrations of King's Chicago campaign, a rising Black nationalism, and the Nixon-era politics of busing and the Supreme Court. Kevin Boyle captures the inspiring and brutal events of this passionate time with a remarkable empathy that restores the humanity of those making this history. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-mark-of-slavery monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/2109c82f-b4f5-45f7-97c6-84add83aa6ee/B3_barclays21.jpg library - The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America - Jenifer L. Barclay University of Illinois Press Antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-poison-a-nation monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/0c4a895e-1e7c-4956-8e8c-ccb9792c67be/B2_to_poison_a_nation_inal.jpg library - To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America - Andrew Baker The New Press On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands. Read more at The New Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-first-reconstruction monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620875416394-UIN9UMCZ7HXBPC0OPWP7/G2_gosse_first_c_9781469660103_fc.jpg library - The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War - Van Gosse University of North Carolina Press In this meticulously researched book, Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Lincoln's election. This book traces a First Reconstruction of Black political activism following emancipation in the North -- from the NorthEast to the MidWest, Black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/with-liberty-and-justice-for-some monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620611894919-3CR484I7UP9FU4AK6D7Q/W4_with_liberty__justice_some.jpg library - With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America - Susan K. Williams Smith Judson Press The Bible and the Constitution: Smith argues that the two texts we count as sacred have not been merely impotent in eliminating racism, they have been used to support and sustain white supremacy. 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Read more at Haymarket Books https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/visualizing-equality monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620610519075-G2MZM2R4QH413K103RSF/G1_gonzalez_visualizing_pb_9781469659961_fc.jpg library - Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century - Aston Gonzalez University of North Carolina Press The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions, but also in print and visual culture created and disseminated by African Americans. In Visualizing Equality, Gonzales charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Their work became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics. 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Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/unceasing-militant monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620609796154-CC0AHTK8CYXNEW4NW88R/P2_parker_unceasing_hc_9781469659381_fcjpg.jpg library - Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell - Alison M. Parker University of North Carolina Press The first full length biography of this founding member of the NAACP, first president of the National Association of Colored Women, and collaborator with Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. Du Bois. She was one of the most prominent activists of her time, and one of the most often underrecognized. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/tropical-aesthetics-of-black-modernism monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620609633660-TW9Q5RHCU7R0NGBJHOGF/N1_9781478011408.jpg library - Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism - Samantha A. Noël Duke University Press Tropical aesthetics — using art to name and reclaim spaces of Black sovereignty —emerged as a unifying element in the Caribbean modern art movement and the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century. Using depictions of tropical scenery and landscapes, performances staged in tropical settings, and bodily expressions of tropicality during Carnival, tropical aesthetics became a way for visual artists and performers to express their sense of belonging to and rootedness in a place. In outlining the centrality of tropical aesthetics in the artistic and cultural practices of Black modernist art, Noël recasts understandings of African diasporic art. Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/to-make-the-wounded-whole monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1630973208534-2FCISRAB5T95I0INF5CR/J5_johnsonthebroken_sticker.png library - To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS - Dan Royles University of North Carolina Press To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first comprehensive history of African American AIDS activism, introducing a diverse constellations of activists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow the epidemic's spread and to address its impacts. 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Lordi Duke University Press Got soul? Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. Breaking with prior understandings of soul as a vague masculinist political formation tethered to the Black power movement, Lordi offers a vision of soul that foregrounds the intricacies of musical craft, the complex personal and social meanings of the music, the dynamic movement of soul across time, and the leading role played by women. 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Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-kidnapping-club monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620608237607-NUK2W14U79FNXF2KVV74/W5_the_kidnapping_club.jpg library - The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War - Jonathan Daniel Wells Hachette Book Group Slavery in New York City: Even though slavery had been outlawed by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe. Not only was the city built on the backs of enslaved people, New York was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. Taking readers into the bustling streets and posts of America's great Northern metropolis, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism, the deeply corrupt roots of policing, and the strength of Black activism. 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Read more at Judson Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-deepest-south-of-all monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620607920179-U4THMZMDG77K1U236D4R/G7_thedeepestsouthofall9781501177828_hr.jpg library - The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi - Richard Grant Simon & Schuster With humor and insight, Grant depicts a strange, eccentric town with an unforgettable cast of characters. Part history and part travelogue, The Deepest South of All offers a gripping portrait of a complex American place struggling to break free from the past and confront the legacy of slavery. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-dead-are-arising monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620607760638-0GOJ8W5AHUI9P833XJH3/P3_cover__the_dead_are_arising.jpg library - The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - Les Payne and Tamara Payne W. W. Norton & Company This unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X separates fact from fiction. Setting Malcolm's life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, The Dead Are Arising traces the life of one of the 20th century's most politically relevant figures. Payne corrects the historical record and delivers extraordinary revelations. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-crooked-path-to-abolition monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620607637834-OCUVJ71SUZPBG48WY8PU/O2_cover__crooked_path_to_abolition.jpg library - The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution - James Oakes W. W. Norton & Company Uncovering the guiding principles of Lincoln's anti-slavery strategies, Oakes posits that after attempting to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with no success, Lincoln took full advantage of the anti-slavery options on the federal level opened by the Civil War. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-cause-of-freedom monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620607510820-XT1QY9ZBOUGMXA4CP8NI/H4_9780190915193.jpeg library - The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans - Jonathan Scott Holloway Oxford University Press What does it mean to be an American if you are African American? From Jonestown to Black Lives Matter, The Cause of Freedom tells a story about our capacity and willingness to realize the ideal articulated in the country's founding document: that all people are created equal. Read more at Princeton University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-campus-color-line monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620607250252-SRUJD779SU5Y815BIQHE/C4_campus_color_line.jpg library - The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom - Eddie R. Cole Princeton University Press So much praise for the The Campus Color Line! This timely work examines the role that the nation's college presidents played in the debates concerning racism, shedding light on the important role college presidents played in the struggle for racial parity and illuminating how the legacy of academic leaders' actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equity in education and beyond. Read more at Princeton University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-broken-heart-of-america monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1630972929841-8PTSPIJXEFMT82DZ20L1/J5_johnsonthebroken_sticker.png library - The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States - Walter Johnson Basic Books/Hachette Book Group From Lewis & Clark in 1804 to the Ferguson uprisings in 2014, St. Louis exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have been persistently entwined. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike. The legacy of resistance endures. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-black-church monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620606876423-73YARV91PFVYTOH0GGU3/G6_9781984880338.jpg library - The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song - Henry Louis Gates Jr. Penguin Press Don't just watch the PBS series! Dive deeper to read more about the importance of the Black Church as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, a magnet for political mobilization, an incubator of musical and oratorial talent, and a crucible for working through the Black community's most critical personal and social issues. Read more at Penguin Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-ballad-of-robert-charles monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620606698553-IKHVESR9BVNLZG5NNK9I/P6_prince_ballad_p_9781469661827_fc.jpg library - The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 - K. Stephen Prince University of North Carolina Press In 1900, after an altercation with police, Robert Charles killed two police officers and fled. During the manhunt, white mobs roamed the city killing 6 African Americans and assaulting many more. Recounting this fascinating story while reporting intentional erasures, Prince's book is as much about the nature of historical inquiry as it is about the race riot for which Robert Charles is known. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/that-middle-world monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620606503046-WFI7OEO4N7QIMFTH07L1/C3_charles_that_pb_9781469659572_fc.jpg library - That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing - Julia S. Charles University of North Carolina Press Charles examines how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves through various performance strategies. Focusing on works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles examines racial passing by analyzing mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. Charles connects to contemporary figures -- including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/sun-ran-chicago monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/4a862c77-52f0-4f2c-af65-8e6b6ae88128/sun_ras_chicago.jpg library - Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City - William Sites The University of Chicago Press Sun Ra. Wildly prolific. Unfailingly eccentric. Renowned for extravagant performances with his Arkestra. Sites focuses on the postwar period of 1946 to 1961 in Chicago when and where Sun Ra relaunched his career amidst a vast array of intellectual, musical, and political influences during a time of unorthodox religious and cultural activism. Read more at The University of Chicago Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/steeped-in-the-blood-of-racism monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620606236802-HM1AQA3896CV45LE6BZC/B7_bristow_steeped_in_the_blood_high_res_cover.jpg library - Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College - Nancy K. Bristow Oxford University Press Recounting the story of the shooting of Black students by the Mississippi Highway patrol at Jackson State College, Bristow situates it in the broader events of the civil rights and Black power eras. Drawing on new interviews and original sources, Bristow narrates what happened in Jackson and the role white supremacy played in causing the shootings and shaping their aftermath. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/stakes-is-high monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620606074883-L629O3T97NEKXWHVQSO5/S8_stakesishigh.jpg library - Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream - Mychal Denzel Smith Hachette Book Group The events of the past decade force us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. In this series of incisive essays, Smith examines the notions of American exceptionalism and the American Dream, confronts the shortcomings, exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, and holds all us to account. 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Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/soul-care-in-african-american-practice monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620605495992-GBO8UZO1K7KTO4UYSS2A/P4_soul_care_in_african_american_practice_4671.jpg library - Soul Care in African American Practice - Barbara L. Peacock InterVarsity Press Now more than ever we need to pause -- intentionally -- and encounter the Divine. Peacock calls us to a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care -- presenting a path toward culturally authentic experiences of spiritual tranformation. Read more at InterVarsity Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/slavery-fatherhood-and-paternal-duty monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620605338712-O4ND06BET8ZPDV6LIP8L/H2_hilde_slavery_pb_9781469660677_fc.jpg library - Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century - Libra R. Hilde University of North Carolina Press Exploring the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after slavery, Hilde demonstrates that Black men and women articulated a broad and consistent vision of paternal duty for more than a century during a time when to be an involved father was to face intractable dilemmas — yet many men tried. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620605088803-UC7XGLLYEKU2P7HYOQL6/A2_slavery_in_the_age_of_memory__jacket.jpg library - Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past - Ana Lucia Araujo Bloomsbury Publishing How do demands to rename streets in England relate to protests to take down Confederate monuments in the Unites States? How do slave cemeteries in Brazil connect to initiatives to honor enslaved people in South Africa? Arguing that memory of slavery is racialized and gendered, this book shows how debates about slavery in the past are associated with the persistent racial inequalities, racism, and white supremacy that still shape societies where slavery existed. Read more at Bloomsbury Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/sistuhs-in-the-struggle monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620604934130-W777VVL6NVT1J4VV3EWD/F3_forsgren.jpg library - Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance - La Donna L. Forsgren Northwestern University Press The first oral history to fully explore the contributions of Black women intellectuals to the Black Arts Movement, documenting how Black women theater artists and activists disseminated the Black aesthetic and emboldened their communities. An essential work for theater scholars, historians, and students interested in learning how Black women's art and activism both advanced and critiqued the ethos of the Black Arts and Black Power movements. Read more at Northwestern University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/say-it-louder monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620604779776-27T0TYDBCEZ7STONTJGP/C8_say_it_louder_cover.jpg library - Say It Louder! Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy - Tiffany D. Cross Amistad Cross explosively examines how America's composition was designed to exclude Black voters -- but paradoxically would likely cease to exist without them. A reflective examination of the endless efforts to deny people of color the right to vote. Read more at Amistad/HarperCollins https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/say-im-dead monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620604507575-UBYNYS0U1IRIPWP95V58/J1_9781641602747.jpg library - Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love - E. Dolores Johnson Chicago Review Press Say I'm Dead is the engrossing true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and transformation through five generations of interracial relationships uncovered by the author as she searched her own genealogy. Read more at Chicago Review Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/recasting-the-vote monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620604354362-7EA6DLQLMIEUSP9G58AF/C1_cahill_recasting_hb_9781469659329_fc.jpg library - Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement - Cathleen D. Cahill University of North Carolina Press We think we know the story of women's suffrage, but the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond the familiar faces. In Recasting the Vote, Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill (finally) puts these feminists of color in the foreground. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/reading-while-black monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620604146540-6PNRG1GKFRZF2JBHBSPR/M6_reading_while_black_5486.jpg library - Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope - Esau McCaulley InterVarsity Press Reading While Black is a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation -- with examinations of how Scripture speaks to topics often overlooked by white interpreters, such as ethnicity, political protest, policing, and slavery. McCaulley advocates for an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible -- in which the particular questions coming out of Black communities are given pride of place and the Bible is given space to respond by affirming, challenging, and, at times, reshaping Black concerns. Read more at InterVarsity Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/re-membering-and-surviving monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620603978517-ZTEI63SLRKJSXM82145E/J4_9781611863710highres.jpg library - Re-Membering and Surviving: African American Fiction of the Vietnam War - Shirley A. James Hanshaw Michigan State University Press The first book-length critical study of the Black experience in Vietnam and its aftermath as depicted in four novels that revealed a common history of racism and exploitation that African Americans and Vietnamese shared — a common history that sometimes resulted in empathy with and compassion for the so-called enemy. This depiction is a unique contribution by the Black novelist to American war literature. Read more at Michigan State University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/pittsburgh-and-the-urban-league-movement monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620603760896-WT7337HCZ5VT6A1ZKQJI/T2_trotter_pittsburgh_final_cover_for_publicity.jpg library - Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism - Joe William Trotter, Jr. The University Press of Kentucky The impact of the National Urban League is a hotly debated topic in African American social and political history. Trotter's study demonstrates how the organization has relieved suffering and racial inequality in US cities for more than a century, however it also makes clear that the national organization cannot be fully comprehended without a look on the local level. Read more at the University Press of Kentucky https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/pauulus-diaspora monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620603587869-6HRAQNW4D7BB4B2I1NOV/S5_pauulus_diaspora_rgb.jpg library - Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice - Quito J. Swan University Press of Florida In this riveting narrative that runs through Caribbean sugarcane fields, Liberian rubber plantations, and Papua New Guinean rainforests, Pauulu's Diaspora recognizes a global leader who has largely been absent from scholarship. In doing so, it brings to light little-known relationships among the Black Power, pan-Africanism, and environmental justice movements. Read more at University Press of Florida https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/one-drop monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620603440352-DL2DJXT3HMIME3ABW2MH/B9_9780807073360.jpg library - One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race - Yaba Blay Beacon Press Does just one drop of Black blood make you Black? Blay explores "the one-drop rule" and the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. By recounting lived experiences and lived imagings of Black identity - particularly by those who do not fit neatly into the stereotypical "Black Box"- Blay visualizes multiple possibilities for Blackness. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/no-future-in-this-country monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620603321237-MG52YI9X9LN97I8UGHKU/J2_no_future_in_this_country.jpg library - No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner - Andre E. Johnson University Press of Mississippi Focusing on Turner's work from 1896 to 1915, Johnson tells the story of how Turner provided rhetorical leadership during a period in which America defaulted on many of the rights and privileges gained for African Americans during Reconstruction. Turner opted not for optimism, but for adopting a prophetic persona of pessimism that challenged and pushed African Americans to believe in themselves. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/nellie-francis monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620603199052-GECVRYPI1VNMCU4LCPIS/G3_green_nellie.jpeg library - Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women's Equality in Minnesota - William D. Green University of Minnesota Press Nellie Francis' indefatigable work advanced the causes of civil rights, anti-lynching, and women's suffrage. Relevant to today, this book offers insight into the universal challenges that strong, engaged black women endure and endured when their drive to enact justice confronts racism, cultural pressure, and societal expectations. Read more at University of Minnesota Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/mediocre monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620602963917-ZQ5PRAY7VGB8O4L8BNID/O1_oluo_mediocre_300dpi.jpg library - Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America - Ijeoma Oluo Basic Books/Hachette Book Group What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color instead of by actual accomplishments? With her sharp wit, Oluo exposes how white male identity pervades our divided culture today, causing racist and sexist behavior even among white allies and male feminists. She then imagines the possibilities for a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism. Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/marking-time monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620602827921-RKF6T9BAZPAV9MR6QPCK/F5_9780674919228.jpg library - Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration - Nicole R. Fleetwood Harvard University Press Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Their bold works, many of which are published for the first time in Fleetwood's book, open new possibilities in American art as testaments to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment, offering new visions of freedom for the 21st century. Read more at Harvard University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/long-time-coming monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620602707493-PGW58FF9SUKSY84AXSQY/D3_long_time_coming_cover_image.jpg library - Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America - Michael Eric Dyson St. Martin's Press/Macmillan May 25, 2020. George Floyd. The fuse that lit America's long-filling powder keg. Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. Read more at St. Martin's Press/Macmillan https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/liner-notes-for-the-revolution monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1630973413104-RDMVU1OSP2G8BXW83KVL/J5_johnsonthebroken_sticker.png library - Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound - Daphne A. Brooks Belknap/Harvard University Press Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on acclaimed Black women artists and the overlooked contributions of other Black women concerned with their work -- contributions in the form of sound archivists, critics of modern culture, and cultural commentators. In her book Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music recording, song collecting, and rock & roll criticism, and pioneers a long overdue recognition and celebration of Black women musicians as radical intellectuals. Read more at Belknap/Harvard University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/just-us monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620602137089-CWALDONNEEQT8B8EIQE2/R2_just_us.jpg library - Just Us: An American Conversation - Claudia Rankine Graywolf Press Just Us invites us into a necessary conversation about whiteness in America. Funny, vulnerable, and prescient, this is Rankine's intimate, urgent and crucial call to challenge our vexed reality. With clarity and grace, Rankine delivers a gut punch to white denial. Read more at Graywolf Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/jeffersons-muslim-fugitives monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620601992755-D5QCOYOS6CJAFBWQF0GG/9780190844479.jpeg library - Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives: The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President - Jeffrey Einboden Oxford University Press In 1807, Thomas Jefferson was delivered two manuscripts written entirely in Arabic and penned by literate African slaves fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the path of the manuscripts to the then President, while questioning why this vital legacy from the American past has been entirely forgotten. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/i-dont-like-the-blues monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620601775540-4GQ4BAE0BEBO8XLJ0NJA/F2_foster_i_pb_9781469660424_fc.jpg library - I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life - B. Brian Foster University of North Carolina Press How do you love the blues and not like them at the same time? Foster's research among Black folks in contemporary Mississippi answers this question and urges us to think differently about race, place, and community development -- to "listen for the backbeat". Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/how-to-make-a-slave monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620600731414-310M07WPYL82ZTVY1EDA/W3_walker_howtomake_finalist_frontcover_rgb.jpg library - How to Make a Slave and Other Essays - Jerald Walker The Ohio State University Press Anger & Humor. It is on the knife's edge between fury and farce that the essays in this collection balance. Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique. The result is bracing and often humorous. Read more at The Ohio State University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/how-the-south-won-the-civil-war monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620600457860-3UKPW2HWNQVLKUTHQYRO/9780190900908.jpeg library - How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America - Heather Cox Richardson Oxford University Press Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory in the Civil War was ephemeral and that the competing claims of equality and subordination are woven into the nation's fabric and identity. The Old South didn't die. It moved to the West -- where it thrived. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/hidden-history monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620599612700-FZL7NUMUKK81VSKP9DPF/P1_9781467146074.jpg library - Hidden History of Old Atlanta - Mark Pifer The History Press/Arcadia Publishing Atlanta has a rich unrecognized history that dates back millennia -- even before the first known residents arrived 5,000 years ago. Mark Pifer's history of Atlanta bursts with tales that predate the City in the Forest's rise amid the treetops. Read more at Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/groove-theory monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620599441720-FHPZUOIBAK0MSJHPUTL8/B3_groove_theory.jpg library - Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk - Tony Bolden University Press of Mississippi What does it mean to be funky? In part one of this two-part book, Bolden explores this concept utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history -- presenting an innovative history of funk music framing the performers as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Read more at University Press of Mississippi https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/from-the-bayou-to-the-bay monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620599262364-F9DS297GWPMA9CMXE2CX/S6_smith_from_9781438482316.jpg library - From the Bayou to the Bay: The Autobiography of a Black Liberation Scholar - Robert C. Smith SUNY Press In this refreshingly candid intellectual autobiography, Smith traces the evolution of his consciousness and identity en route to becoming one of the nation's leading scholars of African American politics, interweaving personal narrative with significant events and cultural flashpoints of the last half of the 20th century. Read more at SUNY Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/from-slave-cabins-to-the-white-house monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620599105678-OSOLOWH8JOTVLQ6G8V0E/M4_mitchellf20.jpg library - From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture - Koritha Mitchell University of Illinois Press White women homemakers are granted respectability and safety; Black women homemakers endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in "their place". From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature. Read more at University of Illinois Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/from-marion-to-montgomery monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620598763233-9QCBGMJKIQES6L28FDAP/C6_9781588383600_asu_fchigh.jpg library - From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867–1925 - Joseph Caver NewSouth Books From Marion to Montgomery is the story of the Lincoln Normal School's transformation into the legendary Alabama State University. Founded by nine former slaves, Lincoln evolved from Normal School to junior college to full-fledged four-year university. It's a story of visionary leadership, endless tenacity, and a true belief in the value of education. 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Read more at SUNY Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/forms-of-contention monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620598453465-5V56ZQZUGPHUGDPZOPK2/R1_forms_of_contention.jpg library - Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition - Hollis Robbins The University of Georgia Press Challenging long-standing claims that sonnet writing is primarily a matter of European influence, and referencing a century of re-emerged sonnets published in African American newspapers, Robbins uses the sonnet as a case study for exploring the broader literary history of African American literature. Read more at The University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/floating-in-a-most-peculiar-way monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620598231350-0ZH9QPGTNS2APPMY09W4/C1_9781328781079_hres.jpg library - Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir - Louis Chude-Sokei Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Moving from Jamacia to Africa to Los Angeles, Chude-Sokei's experiences in this new world and within a boisterous pan-African family teach him the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness, but Blacknesses, in America. 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Read more at University of Massachusetts Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/father-james-page monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620597827623-4WIYJQTNKEJVABBBFCYG/R3_rivers.jpg library - Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom - Larry Eugene Rivers Johns Hopkins University Press Drawing on archival sources, personal papers, and interviews with James Page himself, Rivers presents the formerly enslaved man turned religious leader as complex and conflicted: neither an accommodationist mouthpiece for white supremacy nor a calculating schemer fomenting rebellion. Read more at Johns Hopkins University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/emanuel-celler monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620597613093-RE93CDG6UOHDBTOEHJJ1/D1_emanuel_celler.jpg library - Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion - Wayne Dawkins University Press of Mississippi Learn more about this New York City congressman (1923-1973) whose career was highlighted by his lifelong opposition to immigration restrictions, who also was involved in the drafting and passing of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Dawkins profiles a complex politician who shaped the central tenets of Democratic liberalism for much of the 20th century and whose work remains central to the nation and our political debates today. 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Read more at the University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620596505493-BNARYC7A3358NAQ0G0PS/W2_9780593230251_1.jpg library - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson Penguin Random House A masterful portrait of the unseen phenomenon of caste in America. Wilkerson explores how America is and has always been shaped by a hidden caste system that influences people's lives and behaviors and the nation's fate. Caste points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions toward hope in our common humanity. Read more at Penguin Random House https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/brick-city-vanguard monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/643266f1-c644-4bd8-a14b-b99961275941/brick_city_vanguard.jpg library - Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity - James Smethurst University of Massachusetts Press A new look at how Baraka's writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation.. Read more at University of Massachusetts Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/blood-on-the-river monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620595319493-QPY6CQTEWQCEAF0BJZUS/K1_blood_on_the_river_final.jpg library - Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast - Marjoleine Kars The New Press The story of the 1763 uprising by enslaved people in present-day Guyana that almost changed the face of the Americas. In Blood on the River, Marjoleine Kars reconstructs an extraordinarily rich day-by-day account of this pivotal event. Read more at The New Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-womens-yoga-history monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620595190676-R99IOAC72R7I27TJSO4W/E2_evans_black_9781438483634.jpg library - Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace - Stephanie Y. Evans SUNY Press Drawing upon memoirs by over 50 Black women -- including cultural icons such as Harriet Jacobs, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks and Tina Turner -- Evans shows Black women have used meditation and yoga to manage stress from the eras of enslavement to the present. Read more at SUNY Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-panther-in-exile monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620595073612-N9HCXXWVECU1JCT4NLII/M5_black_panther_in_exile_rgb.jpg library - Black Panther in Exile: The Pete O'Neal Story - Paul J. Magnarella University Press of Florida The gripping story of the founder of the Kansas City branch of the Black Panther Party -- now living in Tanzania, still continuing the social justice work of the BPP and still fighting a wrongful conviction and subsequent denials of justice. 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Read more at Simon & Schuster https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-diamond-queens monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1b5636a0-77ad-4e1c-be30-f12ea6d95a7b/black_diamond_queens.jpg library - Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll - Maureen Mahon Duke University Press Drawing on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews, Mahon documents the pivotal role African American women have played in rock & roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. You may think you already know the stories of these women, but there's so much more to learn! Read more at Duke University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-broadway-in-washington-dc monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620594598610-82SUNRB9Y9PGWTOCB8S7/T1_9781467139298.jpg library - Black Broadway in Washington, DC - Briana A. Thomas Arcadia Publishing Known as Black Broadway, from the early 1900s to the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town built businesses in this "city within a city". Read about Washington's Greater U Street's early triumphs of emancipation through to its recent struggles of gentrification. Read more at Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/barry-farm-hillsdale-in-anacostia monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620594488765-X4RA76XVWXQFCRF34256/A1_BarryFarm.jpg library - Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia: A Historic African American Community - Alcione M. Amos The History Press/Arcadia Publishing The story of a Black settlement -- just outside of Washington, DC -- that fought to improve their lives and those of their neighbors in the tumultuous 1960s. Read more at Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/at-the-threshold-of-liberty monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/eafc3aca-3dfc-4f10-b026-8d17d9d4f869/at_the_threshold.jpg library - At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. - Tamika Y. Nunley University of North Carolina Press Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Nunley traces how Black women - enslaved, fugitive, and free - navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, initiated freedom suits, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/arrival-of-the-first-africans-in-virginia monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620594025531-3IE7U287VFSPVNHVWUW6/M7_9781467145985.jpg library - Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia - Ric Murphy The History Press/Arcadia Publishing The story of 32 African men, women and children kidnapped from Angola in 1619 by the Portuguese and taken by the English to the New World. What happened to them? Historian Ric Murphy documents a fascinating story of colonialism, treason, piracy, kidnapping, enslavement and British law. Read more at Arcadia Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/afropessimism monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620593799550-3E5517YVUN7K2IPN9QGR/W1_cover__afropessimism.jpg library - Afropessimism - Frank B. Wilderson III Liveright Publishing Corp/W. W. Norton & Company Drawing on works of philosophy, literature, film, and critical theory, Wilderson shows that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive anti-Black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but the very engine that powers our civilization, and that without the "master-slave" dynamic, the calculus bolstering world civilization would collapse. Afropessimism delivers a formidable philosphical account of being Black and provides no restorative solution to the hatred that abounds. Wilderson posits that acknowledging these historical and social conditions results in personal enlightenment about the reality of our inherently racialized existence, offering wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. Read more at W. W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/aaron-mcduffie-moore monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620593575516-CDSY47Q7XFYQRBRS5EHZ/H1_hillsaya_aaron_hc_9781469655857_fc.jpg library - Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street - Blake Hill-Saya University of North Carolina Press The story of the first practicing African American physician in the city of Durham, NC. Credited with co-establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late 19th and early 20th century, founding Durham's famed Black Wall Street, and spearheading and running the city's first secular, freestanding African American hospital. Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-question-of-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620593470779-3LF7RL4O1ZN2NN21FWLL/T3_thomas_question_of_freedom_9780300256277.jpg library - A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War - William G. Thomas III Yale University Press PG County. Georgetown. Slavery. For over 70 years and 5 generations, enslaved families of PG County filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders. A chronicle of the legal battles waged by enslaved people for their own freedom. 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Read more at Hachette Book Group https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-long-long-way monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620593243161-KMQ39ABQ4J1ZFXU8IWEG/G4_9780190906252.jpg library - A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation - Greg Garrett Oxford University Press Greg Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear as he argues that movies -- from Birth of a Nation to Get Out to Moonlight-- have altered our cultural perspectives in the same way religious narratives have, and that religious traditions offer powerful correctives for our cultural narratives. In acknowledging the racist history of America's national art form, Garrett offers the possibility of hope for the future. Read more at Oxford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/a-history-of-the-black-baptist-church monthly 0.5 2023-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1620593174232-FAAEN2QLV87PBRBM8158/C9_a_history_black_baptist_church.jpg library - A History of the Black Baptist Church: I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired - Wayne E. Croft Sr. Judson Press In this history of the Black Baptist church, Croft presents a journey back to the roots and history of Black Baptists and the evolution of the Black church, and an exploration of the current challenges and future opportunities of Black Baptists in a postmodern and post-denominational world. Read more at Judson Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/growing-up-with-the-country monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595181864682-V32AZK7RNJKUP1Q9Z2PF/F2_growing_up_with_the_country.jpg library - Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War - Kendra Field Yale University Press Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of Black and Black Indian towns and settlements. Read more at Yale University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/remaking-black-power monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595181705829-NYDGS4KHHX9U6VB55CLI/image-asset.jpeg library - Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era - Ashley D. Farmer University of North Carolina Press Ashley D. Farmer examines Black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated Black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about Black womanhood. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-promise-of-patriarchy monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595181588146-O3SA6RIU7WWIXKG1QY6W/image-asset.jpeg library - The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam - Ula Yvette Taylor University of North Carolina Press Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how the decision by Black women to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and self-love in Jim Crow America. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in bypassing the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class Black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. 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Coggeshall University of North Carolina Press Liberia, South Carolina chronicles the struggles of 5 generations of the Owens family through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/force-and-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595298209136-O70HBJ0UBK58I26DJ6RL/force-freedom_sticker_flat.png library - Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence - Kellie Carter Jackson University of Pennsylvania Press In Force and Freedom Kellie Carter Jackson argues that through tactical violence Black abolitionist leaders accomplished what white nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War. 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Brown Gone Home offers a corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. Telling the stories of African Americans there, she offers a sweeping look at race, identity, politics and policy, and Black migration in the region and beyond. Read more at University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/frederick-douglass-prophet-of-freedom monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595173214582-TJ6ZSCMONDA8ZLPZEO6P/7_frederick_douglass_blight.jpg library - Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom - David Blight Simon & Schuster The definitive, dramatic, remarkable biography of the most important African American of the 19th century. David Blight draws on NEW information held in a private collection and recently discovered papers that few other historians have consulted. 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Read more at Harlequin Trade Publishing https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/white-negroes monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/de0a4185-ac14-4644-8c33-4691e960476b/white_negroes.jpg library - White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation - Lauren Michele Jackson Beacon Press An audacious debut! American culture loves Blackness, but who's allowed to profit from it? Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves some SERIOUS attention. Read more at Beacon Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/threatening-property monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595099954961-8HDY6MQ63X1C8UFN22US/H4_herbintriant_threateningproperty_cover.jpg library - Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods - Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant Columbia University Press In Threatening Property, Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the white elite. Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/veil-and-vow monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595099327812-AG6PAK16S5WKCLWIMLA3/H3_henderson_veil_and_vow_fc.jpg library - Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture - Aneeka Ayanna Henderson University of North Carolina Press Aneeka Ayanna Henderson critically examines popular and influential late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts alongside legislation such as the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the Welfare Reform Act providing a new opportunity to grapple with old questions, including who can be a citizen, a "wife," and "marriageable". Veil and Vow makes clear just how deeply marriage still matters in African American culture. Read more are University of North Carolina Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/binga monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1595099166867-PC10MQAW29R614IISOTY/H2_hayner_binga.jpg library - Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black Banker - Don Hayner Northwestern University Press Jesse Binga arrived in Chicago in 1892 in his late twenties with virtually nothing. He rose to wealth and influence as a real estate broker, and in 1908 he founded the Binga Bank, the first Black-owned bank in the city -- but his success came at the price of a vicious backlash. Don Hayner recounts this gripping story about race, history, politics, and finance. Read more at Northwestern University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/black-lives-native-lands-white-worlds monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1594824665012-VBLNSNQM3FW3ABDONG62/H1_hardesty_black+lives.jpg library - Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England - Jared Ross Hardesty University of Massachusetts Press By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of New England's population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region’s economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England and its deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies has been little told. Read more at UMass Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/represented monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1594824395389-H34VMR5FJFE95522H963/G5_greer_represented_front_cover.jpg library - Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship - Brenna Wynn Greer University of Pennsylvania Press Brenna Wynn Greer explores how Black entrepreneurs produced advertising that popularized conceptions of African Americans as enthusiastic consumers, a status essential to postwar citizenship claims, but also subject to marketplace dictates, and often reliant on gender, class, and family stereotypes. 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Norton https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/salvific-manhood-james-baldwins-novelization-of-male-intimacy monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1594823565303-KATO7IET875VDPX8QNR1/image-asset.jpeg library - Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy - Ernest L. Gibson III University of Nebraska Press At the intersections of literary criticism, queer studies, and male studies, Ernest L. Gibson, III deconstructs Baldwin’s wrestling with familial love, American identity, suicide, art, incarceration, and memory by magnifying the potent idea of salvific manhood. Salvific Manhood calls for an alternate reading of Baldwin’s novels, an assertion that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation. 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Read more at Columbia University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/skimmed monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1594772739930-KTL06DHM7T0R152IHTML/image-asset.jpeg library - Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice - Andrea Freeman Stanford University Press In Skimmed, Andrea Freeman tells the riveting story of America's first surviving set of identical quadruplets -- born to a Black-Cherokee woman -- while uncovering how feeding America's youngest citizens is awash in social, legal, and cultural inequalities. Read more at Stanford University Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/rethinking-rufus monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1594772479008-JHTWVT74OGD800VIXWNG/F4_foster_rethinking+rufus.jpg library - Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men - Thomas A. Foster University of Georgia Press Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Thomas A. Foster’s sustained examination of how Black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women makes an important contribution to our understanding of masculinity, sexuality, the lived experience of enslaved men, and the general power dynamics fostered by the institution of slavery. It illuminates how the conditions of slavery gave rise to a variety of forms of sexual assault and exploitation that affected all members of the community. Read more at University of Georgia Press https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/the-second-founding monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1594772256811-X7ZSX74J1VFEGUVE2T72/F3_foner_the+second_founding.jpg library - The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution - Eric Foner W. W. Norton & Company Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history examines pivotal constitutional amendments designed to establish the principle of birthright citizenship and to guarantee the privileges and immunities of all citizens. It traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late 19thc. to inform our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights. Read more at W.W. Norton & Company https://www.maahstonebookaward.org/library/exposing-slavery monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0a7a9f19d176469c4afbb1/1594771637593-3LEEIN9B5EHOL4U6HTAA/F1_fox_amato_exposing+slavery.jpg library - Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America - Matthew Fox-Amato Oxford University Press Exposing Slavery explores how photography altered and was, in turn, shaped by conflicts over human bondage. Drawing on an original source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, free African Americans, and abolitionists, as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at the center of understanding the experience of late slavery. 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