African-American Studies: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newAfricanAmerican.xml New African-American Studies Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism | Tony Perucci http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3365636 Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois | Mark W. Van Wienen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3834737 A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S. James Baldwin: America and Beyond | by Edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1168369 An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry | by Howard Rambsy II http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1798608 A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise Say Word!: Voices from Hip Hop Theater | An Anthology Edited and with an Introduction by Daniel Banks http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322638 Compelling plays by leading Hip Hop artists writing in the language of today The Problem of the Color[blind]: Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance | by Brandi Wilkins Catanese http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=368267 How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances | edited by Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=317074 Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City | by Luke Bergmann http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2444757 A window into the lives of two young urban drug dealers Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body | by Harvey Young http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=235634 How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life Blues in Black and White: The Landmark Ann Arbor Blues Festivals | by As photographed by Stanley Livingston with Text and a History of the Ann Arbor Blues Festival by Michael Erlewine, Foreword by Jim O'Neal, cofounder, Living Blues Magazine http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=876689 Never-before-seen photographs---with text accompaniment---of the performers onstage and backstage at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance | by James F. Wilson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1175684 The gay and lesbian presence in black entertainment in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and Broadway stages A Martian Muse: Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry | by Reginald Shepherd http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1432919 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist's posthumous volume of critical essays. The Next Twenty-five Years: Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa | by David L. Featherman, Martin Hall, and Marvin Krislov, editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=229720 A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in diverse democracies. Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory | by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=170676 NEW IN PAPER!A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure. The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness | by Terry Rowden http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=232221 How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years. Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 | by Clarence Lang http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=354425 Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement. Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law | by Richard L. Schur http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=822512 An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics. The Price of Racial Reconciliation | by Ronald W. Walters http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=135227 NEW IN PAPER! Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States .