Honoring African American History Month

Share Tweet Forward African American History Month Paying tribute to black activists, scholars, philosophers, writers, artists, and musicians who transformed America's social order, we present books that celebrate the African American experience. Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award » Featured on "Best Book of the Year" lists by the New York Times, New York Review of Books, and Financial Times, Nicole R. Fleetwood's Marking Time inspires vital political conversation. A riveting account of racial segregation » In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews points the way to Mia Bay's Traveling Black which "illuminates the determined spirit that underpins the fight for Black equality… A book that shocks, shames, and enlightens." From Bessie Smith to Beyoncé » In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews sings the praises of Daphne A. Brooks's Liner Notes for the Revolution, "A sui generis and essential work on Black music culture destined to launch future investigations." Critics' Choice » Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award and a Cundill History Prize Finalist, Vincent Brown's Tacky's Revolt is recommended by the New Yorker, Harper's, and The Guardian. Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize » The New York Times lauds Hattiesburg, "Illuminating… [Sturkey] shows how Hattiesburg's black residents… laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s." How gangsta rap shocked America » Arts Fuse applauds Felicia Angeja Viator's To Live and Defy in LA, "[The book] sees Gangsta Rap as an important way to understand how systemic racism has worked (and works) in America today." Critical Ruminations Award-winning Classics The Color of Money A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Nation under Our Feet Pulitzer Prize for History Bound in Wedlock Joan Kelly Memorial Prize • Littleton-Griswold Prize • Mary Nickliss Prize The Condemnation of Blackness A New York Times "Antiracist Reading List" Recommended Book Many Thousands Gone Bancroft Prize From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime A New York Magazine "Best Book on the American Prison System" A Chosen Exile A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Landscapes of Hope Frederick Jackson Turner Award Available for Free Download Forthcoming Essential for teachers and students today » Jarvis R. Givens's Fugitive Pedagogy is a fresh portrayal of Carter G. Woodson—groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow. An inquiry into the Supreme Court's race record » Addressing nearly two hundred cases involving America's racial minorities, Orville Vernon and Burton Armand Derfner's Justice Deferred, is the first book that comprehensively charts the Court's race jurisprudence. New York Times Book Review "How We Got Here: Writers on Race and Racism in America" "Paul Gilroy's monumental work Against Race argues that race is not something intrinsic and immutable but something fluid, illusory and imposed." "[Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a] sophisticated critique of slavery, 19th-century feminism and the gendered nature of white supremacy." "Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark is utter genius, revealing through literary analysis how whiteness doesn't exist without blackness." © 2021 Harvard University Press. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive the latest news on scholarship by Harvard University Press. We respect the privacy of our subscribers and we adhere to our privacy policy as well as Harvard University's EEA Privacy Disclosures. Our mailing address is: Harvard University Press 79 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.