Edited by Leslie M. Alexander, Brandon R. Byrd and Russell Rickford
Contributions by Davarian Baldwin, Richard Benson II, Alexis Broderick, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Vincent Carretta, Kellie Carter-Jackson, Nathan DB Connolly, Marlene L Daut, Shannon C Eaves, Thavolia Glymph, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jessica Marie Johnson, Jeffrey R Kerr-Ritchie, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Jessica Millward, William Sturkey, Quito Swan, Marisa Parham, Michael O. West and Christy Hyman
This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
This book uncovers the forgotten history of private schools built and run by African Americans throughout the civil rights struggle for school desegregation.
Penned by a former editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, Binga is the definitive biography of the first black banker in Chicago as well as a history of race, politics, and finance in early twentieth-century Chicago.
Southern Exposure is the definitive guide to the often overlooked architectural riches of Chicago’s South Side by architecture expert and former Chicago Sun-Times architecture writer Lee Bey.
Black Freethinkers is the first study to offer a comprehensive historical treatment of African American freethought (including atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism) from the nineteenth century to the present.
Contributions by Gary Murrell, David Levering Lewis, Gerald Horne, Robert W. Williams, Bettina Aptheker, Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lauren Louise Anderson, Erik S McDuffie, Bill V. Mullen, Derek Catsam, Toru Shinoda and Yuichiro Onishi
In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, published when W. E. B. Du Bois was eighty-three years old, the brilliant black intellectual announced that he was a “citizen of the world.” Citizen of the World offers a fascinating survey of this prolific scholar’s late career.
Sacred Ground is the personal memoir of famed Chicago historian Timuel Black, whose life and times from 1919 to the present capture pivotal moments in Chicago history as well as the civil rights movement in Chicago and nationally.
Edited by Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron and Ashley D. Farmer
Contributions by Michael O. West, Celeste Day Moore, Reena Goldthree, Brandon R. Byrd, Judith Weisenfeld, David Weinfeld, LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Guy Emerson Mount, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin D. G. Kelley, Gregory Childs, Russell Rickford and Christopher Bonner
This collection of twelve essays explores black internationalism, religion and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice, and black radicalism.
