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1. Cover image for 'Rock This Way'
Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy
Mel Stanfill
What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web Open Access Forthcoming
2. Cover image for 'Racing the Great White Way'
Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Katie N. Johnson
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web Open Access Forthcoming
3. Cover image for 'For the Culture'
Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice
Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr., Editors
Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "For the Culture"
4. Cover image for 'Being Human during COVID'
Kristin Ann Hass, Editor
What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2021 Open Access Available Read Online
5. Cover image for 'Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance'
Nicole Hodges Persley
Explores expressions of blackness in Hip-hop performance by non-African American artists in the U.S. and Britain ?
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance"
6. Cover image for 'Land of Opportunity'
One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack
William M. Adler
The story of the Chambers brothers’ crack cocaine empire and the city that made them
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Land of Opportunity"
7. Cover image for 'Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics'
R. Khari Brown, Ronald E. Brown, James S. Jackson
How race influences religious engagement in politics
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics"
8. Cover image for 'Collected Prose'
Robert Hayden
A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Collected Prose"
9. Cover image for 'A Change Is Gonna Come'
Music, Race & the Soul of America
Revised Edition
Craig Werner
The new edition of the groundbreaking chronicle of forty years of black music in America
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Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "A Change Is Gonna Come"
10. Cover image for 'Clothed in Meaning'
Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America
Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Clothed in Meaning"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Clothed in Meaning"
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Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America
Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Clothed in Meaning"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Clothed in Meaning"
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Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama
New Edition, With New Preface and Afterword
Katherine Tate

As black leaders have turned from political activism to formal politics, they have moved closer to the political center

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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Concordance"
12. Cover image for 'Bad Boys'
Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera
Ann Arnett Ferguson
The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Bad Boys"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Bad Boys"
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Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera
Ann Arnett Ferguson
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Bad Boys"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Bad Boys"
13. Cover image for 'Rhymes in the Flow'
How Rappers Flip the Beat
Macklin Smith and Aurko Joshi
Reveals the deep roots, poetic structures, and uncommon artistry of rap poetry and performance
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Rhymes in the Flow"
14. Cover image for 'Playing in the Shadows'
Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature
Volume: 88
William Bridges
How do encounters with black literature, music, culture, and thinking invite postwar Japanese authors to re- envision the relationship between race and literature in the wake of world war?
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Playing in the Shadows"
15. Cover image for 'Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers'
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War
Cedric R. Tolliver
Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
15. Cover image for 'Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers'
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War
Cedric R. Tolliver
Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers"
16. Cover image for 'Intents and Purposes'
Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation
Eric Lewis
A bold exploration of how we define improvised music
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Intents and Purposes"
17. Cover image for 'Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World'
Rituals and Remembrances
Edited by Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2010 Open Access Available Read Online
18. Cover image for 'Robert Hayden in Verse'
New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era
Derik Smith
Remaps Robert Hayden’s proper place within African American poetry, and traces his legacy
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Robert Hayden in Verse"
19. Cover image for 'The Harvest of American Racism'
The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967
Robert Shellow
In print for the first time—the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Harvest of American Racism"
20. Cover image for 'The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry'
Howard Rambsy II
A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry"
Web 2011 Open Access Available Read Online
20. Cover image for 'The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry'
Howard Rambsy II
A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Audio Download 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry"
Web 2011 Open Access Available Read Online
21. Cover image for 'The Black Musician and the White City'
Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
Amy Absher
An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2014 Open Access Available Read Online
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Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850
George Hutchinson and John K. Young, Editors
The first of its kind, this volume sets in dialogue African Americanist and textual scholarship, exploring a wide range of African American textual history and work
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2013 Open Access Available Read Online
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German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
Priscilla Layne
Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "White Rebels in Black"
24. Cover image for 'Uncle Tom's Cabins'
The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book
Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova, Editors
Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2018 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Uncle Tom's Cabins"
25. Cover image for 'Memory, Meaning, and Resistance'
Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
Fran Leper Buss
A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Memory, Meaning, and Resistance"
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Available Ebook reading systems vary widely in their support for accessibility features. For EPUB, visit EPUB Test for accessibility support information for specific platforms. Contact us if you have a question about the best reading system for your needs at umpress.accessibility@umich.edu.

Our Ebooks are currently offered under a single-user license, which means that your Ebook can be accessed by using one Adobe ID. Any computer authorized to this Adobe ID will be able to open the file. Learn more at the Adobe ID and Membership FAQ page.

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