BHM 2021

Black History Month

October 2021 Reading List

#ProudToBe

African Leaders of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2

Cabral, Machel, Mugabe, Sirleaf

Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman, Peter Karibe Mendy, Sue Onslow, Martin Plaut, Pamela Scully

£32.00

Ohio University Press

8th November 2022

The Life of Madie Hall Xuma

Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid

Wanda A. Hendricks

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

25th October 2022

The Tuskegee Student Uprising

A History

Brian Jones

£67.00

NYU Press

4th October 2022

War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953

Alfred Tembo

£29.99

Ohio University Press

4th October 2022

Black Country Music

Listening for Revolutions

Francesca T. Royster

£21.99

University of Texas Press

4th October 2022

The Global History of Black Girlhood

Corinne T. Field, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, S E Duff, Crystal Lynn Webster, Tara Bynum, Anasa Hicks, Lindsey Elizabeth Jones, SA Smythe, Nastassja E Swift, Jennifer L Palmer, Nazera Sadiq Wright, Cynthia R Greenlee, Vanessa D Plumly, Najya A Williams, Katharine Capshaw, Dara Walker, Shani Roper, Janaé E Bonsu, Beverley Palesa Ditsie, Phindile Kunene, Denise Oliver-Velez, Claudrena N. Harold, Ruth Nicole Brown, Casidy Campbell

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

27th September 2022

Colonial Racial Capitalism

Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd, Brian Jordan Jefferson

£24.99

Duke University Press Books

23rd September 2022

Scripts of Blackness

Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

Noémie Ndiaye, Geraldine Heng, Ayanna Thompson

£58.00

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

20th September 2022

Panama in Black

Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Kaysha Corinealdi

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

16th September 2022

King's Vibrato

Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Maurice O. Wallace

£24.99

Duke University Press Books

6th September 2022

Black Gun, Silver Star

The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

Art T. Burton

£19.99

Bison Books

1st September 2022

Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Laurie Matheson, Sandra Jean Graham, R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen Wade, Charles Wolfe

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

23rd August 2022

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Laurie Matheson, Tammy L. Kernodle, Nelson George, Wayne Everett Goins, Claudrena N. Harold, Eileen M. Hayes, Loren Kajikawa, Robin D.G. Kelley, Tammy L. Kernodle, Cheryl L. Keyes, Gwendolyn D Pough, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Mark Tucker, Sherrie Tucker

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

23rd August 2022

Global Trade and Cultural Authentication

The Kalabari of the Niger Delta

Joanne B. Eicher

£25.99

Indiana University Press

1st August 2022

Students of the World

Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

Pedro Monaville

£25.99

Duke University Press Books

22nd July 2022

Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals

Christopher M. Reali

£19.99

University of Illinois Press

19th July 2022

Nannie Helen Burroughs

A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900–1959

Nannie Helen Burroughs, Kelisha B. Graves

£29.99

University of Notre Dame Press

15th July 2022

That Most Precious Merchandise

The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500

Hannah Barker

£25.99

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

12th July 2022

William Grant Still

Catherine Parsons Smith

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

12th July 2022

The Emancipation Circuit

Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

Thulani Davis

£25.99

Duke University Press Books

30th June 2022

Riding Jane Crow

African American Women on the American Railroad

Miriam Thaggert

£19.99

University of Illinois Press

28th June 2022

The Critique of Nonviolence

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy

Mark Christian Thompson

£25.99

Stanford University Press

28th June 2022

Africana Studies

Theoretical Futures

Grant Farred

£29.99

Temple University Press

24th June 2022

Spear

Mandela and the Revolutionaries

Paul S. Landau

£32.00

Ohio University Press

7th June 2022

Spirit Service

Vodún and Vodou in the African Atlantic World

Eric James Montgomery, Timothy R. Landry, Christian N. Vannier, Venise N. Adjibodou, Jeffrey E. Anderson, Nixon Cleophat, Douglas J. Falen, Natacha Giafferi-Dombre

£36.00

Indiana University Press

7th June 2022

In Praise of the Ancestors

Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas

Susan Elizabeth Ramirez

£25.99

Nebraska

1st June 2022

Subversive Habits

Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Shannen Dee Williams

£26.99

Duke University Press Books

17th May 2022

Pasifika Black

Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World

Quito Swan

£44.00

NYU Press

10th May 2022

Buy Black

How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture

Aria S. Halliday

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

26th April 2022

A House for the Struggle

The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago

E. James West

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

26th April 2022

The Racial Railroad

Julia H. Lee

£25.99

NYU Press

26th April 2022

The Racial Contract

Charles W. Mills, Tommie Shelby

£21.99

Cornell University Press

15th April 2022

Creating African Fashion Histories

Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices

JoAnn McGregor, Heather M. Akou, Nicola Stylianou, Jody Benjamin, Sarah Fee, Malika Kraamer, Harriet Hughes, Beth A. Buggenhagen, M. Angela Jansen, Peri M. Klemm, Erica de Greef, Edith Ojo, Helen Mears

£25.99

Indiana University Press

5th April 2022

Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution

C. L. R. James, Leslie James

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

1st April 2022

Black Patience

Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Julius B. Fleming Jr.

£25.99

NYU Press

29th March 2022

Black Ephemera

The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

Mark Anthony Neal

£23.99

NYU Press

8th March 2022

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery

Allison Page

£21.99

University of Minnesota Press

8th March 2022

"Beyond This Narrow Now"

Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois

Nahum Dimitri Chandler

£24.99

Duke University Press Books

28th February 2022

Educated for Freedom

The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation

Anna Mae Duane

£15.99

NYU Press

1st February 2022

The Black Populations of France

Histories from Metropole to Colony

Sylvain Pattieu, Emmanuelle Sibeud, Tyler Stovall

£25.99

Nebraska

1st February 2022

The Book of Negroes

African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution

Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Alan Edward Brown

£29.99

Fordham University Press

2nd November 2021

Black Cowboys of Rodeo

Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West

Keith Ryan Cartwright, Danny L. Glover

£29.99

Nebraska

1st November 2021

No Color Is My Kind

Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston

Thomas R. Cole

£27.99

University of Texas Press

19th October 2021

Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

Kira Thurman

£27.99

Cornell University Press

15th October 2021

Portraits of Racial Justice

Americans Who Tell the Truth

Robert Shetterly

£29.99

New Village Press

21st September 2021

Teaching Black History to White People

Leonard N. Moore

£18.99

University of Texas Press

14th September 2021

Harry T. Burleigh

From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance

Jean E Snyder

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

31st August 2021

The Black Intellectual Tradition

African American Thought in the Twentieth Century

Derrick P. Alridge, Cornelius L. Bynum, James B Stewart, Derrick P. Alridge, Keisha N. Blain, Cornelius L. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Evans, Aaron David Gresson, Claudrena N. Harold, Leonard Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, La TaSha B. Levy, Layli Maparyan, Zebulon V. Miletsky, R. Baxter Miller, Edward Onaci, Venetria K. Patton, James B Stewart, Nikki M. Taylor

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

3rd August 2021

Ambivalent Childhoods

Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child

Jacob Breslow

£22.99

University of Minnesota Press

20th July 2021

Surviving Southampton

African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community

Vanessa M. Holden

£19.99

University of Illinois Press

13th July 2021

Got to Be Something Here

The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound

Andrea Swensson

£14.99

University of Minnesota Press

18th May 2021

Selected Writings on Race and Difference

Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Ruth Wilson Gilmore

£27.99

Duke University Press Books

30th April 2021

Soundtrack to a Movement

African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism

Richard Brent Turner

£25.99

NYU Press

27th April 2021

Kwame Nkrumah

Visions of Liberation

Jeffrey S. Ahlman

£14.99

Ohio University Press

23rd April 2021

Afro-Nostalgia

Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

Badia Ahad-Legardy

£22.99

University of Illinois Press

12th April 2021

The Life and Times of Louis Lomax

The Art of Deliberate Disunity

Thomas Aiello

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

2nd April 2021

Oscar Charleston

The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player

Jeremy Beer

£18.99

Nebraska

1st April 2021

William Still

The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia

William C. Kashatus

£35.00

University of Notre Dame Press

1st April 2021

Thomas Sankara

A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa

Brian J. Peterson

£29.99

Indiana University Press

2nd March 2021

The Powers of Dignity

The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

Nick Bromell

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

19th February 2021

Hope in the Struggle

A Memoir

Josie R. Johnson, Arleta Little, Carolyn Holbrook

£14.99

University of Minnesota Press

16th February 2021

Chris Hani

Hugh Macmillan

£14.99

Ohio University Press

15th February 2021

Universal Tonality

The Life and Music of William Parker

Cisco Bradley

£26.99

Duke University Press Books

12th February 2021

Point of Reckoning

The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University

Theodore D. Segal

£26.99

Duke University Press Books

5th February 2021

The Black Civil War Soldier

A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

Deborah Willis

£29.99

NYU Press

26th January 2021

Black Diamond Queens

African American Women and Rock and Roll

Maureen Mahon

£26.99

Duke University Press Books

30th October 2020

When Sunday Comes

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Claudrena N. Harold

£19.99

University of Illinois Press

27th October 2020

Laughing to Keep from Dying

African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century

Danielle Fuentes Morgan

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

22nd October 2020

From Slave Cabins to the White House

Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture

Koritha Mitchell

£29.99

University of Illinois Press

15th October 2020

Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving

Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow

Tyrone McKinley Freeman

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

29th September 2020

Mozambique’s Samora Machel

A Life Cut Short

Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman

£14.99

Ohio University Press

8th September 2020

The Meaning of Soul

Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s

Emily J. Lordi

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

14th August 2020

Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa

Nwando Achebe

£14.99

Ohio University Press

14th July 2020

African Art Reframed

Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture

Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J.R. Osborn, Simon Njami

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

11th June 2020

The Heart of a Woman

The Life and Music of Florence B. Price

Rae Linda Brown, Guthrie Ramsey, Guthrie Ramsey, Carlene J. Brown

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

4th June 2020

AFRICOBRA

Experimental Art toward a School of Thought

Wadsworth A. Jarrell

£26.99

Duke University Press Books

8th May 2020

Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance

New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930

Richard A. Courage, Christopher Robert Reed, Darlene Clark Hine, Richard A. Courage, Mary Jo Deegan, Brenda Ellis Fredericks, James C. Hall, Bonnie Claudia Harrison, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey, Amy M. Mooney, Christopher Robert Reed, Clovis E. Semmes, Margaret Vendryes, Richard Yarborougha

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

4th May 2020

Josie Mpama/Palmer

Get Up and Get Moving

Robert R. Edgar

£14.99

Ohio University Press

22nd April 2020

Wangari Maathai

Tabitha Kanogo

£14.99

Ohio University Press

7th April 2020

Are You Entertained?

Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century

Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson

£24.99

Duke University Press Books

28th February 2020

Unfixed

Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa

Jennifer Bajorek

£25.99

Duke University Press Books

7th February 2020

Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.

Popular Black History in Postwar America

E. James West

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

31st January 2020

Hot Feet and Social Change

African Dance and Diaspora Communities

Kariamu Welsh, Esailama Diouf, Yvonne Daniel, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, James Counts Early, Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Abby Carlozzo, Steven Cornelius, Yvonne Daniel, Charles Davis, Esailama Diouf, Indira Etwaroo, Habib Iddrisu, Julie B. Johnson, C. Kemal Nance, Halifu Osumare, Amaniyea Payne, William Serrano-Franklin, Kariamu Welsh

£25.99

University of Illinois Press

4th November 2019

Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights

Robert J Patterson, Courtney R. Baker, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Madhu Dubey, Nadine Knight, Monica White Ndounou, Kinohi Nishikawa, Samantha Pinto, Jermaine Singleton, Terrion L Williamson, Lisa Woolfork

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

6th August 2019

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham

Dances in Literature and Cinema

Hannah Durkin

£23.99

University of Illinois Press

6th August 2019

Amílcar Cabral

A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary

Peter Karibe Mendy

£14.99

Ohio University Press

11th June 2019

Building the Black Arts Movement

Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s

Jonathan Fenderson

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

30th March 2019

To Turn the Whole World Over

Black Women and Internationalism

Keisha Blain, Tiffany Gill, Michael West, Nicole Anae, Keisha Blain, Brandon R. Byrd, Stephanie Beck Cohen, Anne Donlon, Tiffany N. Florvil, Kim Gallon, Dayo Gore, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Grace Leslie, Michael West, Julia Erin Wood

£21.99

University of Illinois Press

16th March 2019

Moving In and Out of Islam

Karin van Nieuwkerk

£29.99

University of Texas Press

5th December 2018

Jezebel Unhinged

Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture

Tamura Lomax

£23.99

Duke University Press Books

16th October 2018

The Revolt of the Black Athlete

50th Anniversary Edition

Harry Edwards

£16.99

University of Illinois Press

14th August 2018

Black Lives Matter and Music

Protest, Intervention, Reflection

Fernando Orejuela, Stephanie Shonekan, Portia K. Maultsby, Fernando Orejuela, Stephanie Shonekan, Langston Collin Wilkins

£21.99

Indiana University Press

10th August 2018

Double Negative

The Black Image and Popular Culture

Racquel J. Gates

£22.99

Duke University Press Books

10th August 2018

Silent Gesture

The Autobiography of Tommie Smith

Tommie Smith, Delois Smith, David Steele

£23.99

Temple University Press

15th May 2008

The Columbian Orator

David W. Blight

£23.99

NYU Press

1st February 1998