The Western Journal of Black Studies

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WJBS BOOK LIST 2009 / 2010 / 2011

(Updated 11/29/11)

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  • Ahad, Badia S. (2010).Freud upside down: African American literature and psychoanalytic culture. University of Illinois Press.

  • Alba, Richard. (2009). Immigration and religion in America: Comparative and historical perspectives. New York University Press.

  • Allen, JoBeth. (2010). Literacy in the welcoming classroom: Creating family-school partnerships that support student learning. Teachers College Press.

  • Allen, Peggy V. (2009). The pecan orchard: Journey of a sharecroppers daughter. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Allen, Troy D. (2009). The Ancient Egyptian family: Kinship and social structure. Routledge

  • Anderson, Mark. (2009). Black and indigenous: Garifuna Activism and consumer culture in Honduras. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Armstrong, Julie. (2009). The civil rights reader: American literature from Jim Crow to reconciliation. The University of Georgia Press.

  • Awkward, Michael. (2009). Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a scapegoat. University of Minnesota Press.

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  • Baker, Barbara. (2010). Albert Murray and the aesthetic imagination of a nation. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Bailey, Joseph A. (2011). Unlocking Minds of Black Boys. Wing Span Press.

  • Ballantyne, Tony. (2009). Moving subjects: Gender, mobility, and intimacy in an age of global empire. University of Illinois Press.

  • Barry, Mariama. (2010). The Little Peul. University of Virginia Press.

  • Bass, Amy. (2009). Those about him remained silent: The battle of W.E.B Du Bois. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Beach, Richard. (2010). Literacy tools in the classroom: Teaching through critical inquiry, grades 5-12. Teachers College Press.

  • Behnken, Brain D. (2012). The Struggles in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era. University of Nebraska Press.

  • Beito, David T. (2009). Black maverick: T.R.M Howard’s fight for civil rights and economic power. University of Illinois Press.

  • Bennett, Herman L. (2009). Colonial blackness: A history of afro-mexico. Indiana University Press.

  • Blake, Cecil. (2009). The African origins of rhetoric. Routledge.

  • Boston, Michael B. (2010). The business strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its development and implementation. University Press of Florida.

  • Bradley, Stefan M. (2009). Harlem vs Columbia University: Black student power in the late 1960’s. University of Illinois Press.

  • Brana-Shute, Rosemary. (2009). Paths to freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic world. The University of South Carolina Press.

  • Brivic, Shelly. (2009). Tears of rage: The racial interface of modern American fiction, Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Brooks, Pamela E. (2009). Boycotts, buses, and passes. University of Massachusetts Press.

  • Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. (2011). Courage to dissent: Atlanta and the long history of the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford University Press.

  • Byfield, Judith A. (2010). Gendering the African diaspora: Women, culture, and historical change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland. Indiana University Press.

  • Bynum, Cornelius L. (2010). A. Philip Randolph and the struggle for civil rights”. University of Illinois Press.

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  • Canton, David A. (2010). Raymond Pace Alexander: A new negro lawyer fights for civil rights in Philadelphia. University Press of Mississippi.

  • Carey, Anthony Gene. (2011). Sold Down the River. University of Alabama Press.

  • Carter, Tomeiko A. (2010). Virginia Broughton: The life and writings of a national Baptist missionary. The University of Tennessee Press.

  • Cassanello, Robert. (2009). Florida’s working-class past: Current perspectives on labor, race, and gender from Spanish Florida to the new immigration. University Press of Florida.

  • Catsam, Derek C. (2009). Freedom’s main line: The journey of reconciliation and the freedom rides. The University Press of Kentucky.

  • Chen, Anthony S. (2009). The fifth freedom: Jobs, politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972. Princeton.

  • Chipasula, Frank M. (2009). Bending the bow: An anthology of African love poetry. Southern Illinois University Press.

  • Clemons, Michael L. (2010). African Americans in global affairs: Contemporary perspectives. Northeastern University Press.

  • Compton, Wayde. (2010). After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region”. Arsenal Pulp Press.

  • Crombe, Xavier. (2009). A not so natural disaster: Niger 05. Columbia University Press.

  • Cruse, Harold. (2009). Rebellion or revolution. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Cruvellier, Thierry. (2010). Court of remorse: Inside the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda. The University of Wisconsin Prses.

  • Cushman, Amanda. (2010). Zarma Folktales of Niger. Quale Press

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  • Davis, Belva. (2010). Never in my wildest dreams: A black woman’s life in journalism. PoliPointPress.

  • Davis Hugh. (2011).”We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less”: The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction. Cornell University Press

  • Dickerson, Dennis C. (2010). African American preachers and politics: The careys of Chicago. University Press of Mississippi.

  • Diptee, Audra A. (2010). From African to Jamaica: The making of an Atlantic slave society 1775-1807. University Press of Florida.

  • Dusinberre, William. (2009). Strategies for survival: Recollections of bondage in Antebellum Virginia. University of Virginia Press.

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  • Edwards, Patricia A. (2010). Change is gonna come: Transforming literacy education for African American Students. Teachers College Press.

  • Elinson, Elaine. (2009). Wherever there’s a fight: How runaway slaves, suffragists, immigrants, strikers, and poets shaped civil liberties in California. Hey day Books.

  • End, David L. (2010). The feeling of kinship: Queer liberalism and the racialization of intimacy. Duke University Press.

  • Ewald, Alec C. (2010). The way we vote: The local dimension of American suffrage. Vanderbilt University Press.

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  • Fabricant, Michael B. (2010). Organizing for educational justice: The campaign for public school reform in the South Bronx. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Foley, Neil. (2010). Quest for equality: The failed promise of black-brown solidarity. Harvard University Press.

  • Ford, Lacy K. (2009). Deliver us from evil: The slavery question in the old south. Oxford University Press.

  • Foreman, Gabrielle P. (2009). Activist sentiments: Reading black women in the ninteteenth century. University of Illinois Press.

  • Fosl, Catherine. (2009). Freedom on the border: An oral history of the civil rights movement in Kentucky. The University Press of Kentucky.

  • Foster, Frances S. (2010). ‘Til death or distance do us part: Love and marriage in African America. Oxford.

  • French, Jan H. (2009). Legalizing identities: Becoming black or Indian in Brazil’s northeast. The University of North Carolina Press.

  • Friedman, Joel W. (2009). Champion of civil rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Furman, Andrew. (2010). My Los Angeles in black and (almost) white”. Syracuse University Press.

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  • Gaillard, Frye. (2010). Alabama’s civil rights trial: An illustrated guide to the cradle of freedom. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Gendron, Richard . (2009). The leftmost city: Power and progressive politics in Santa Cruz. Westview Press.

  • George-Graves, Nadine. (2010). Urban bush women: Twenty years of African American dance theater, community engagement, and working it out. The University of Wisconsin Press.

  • Ginwright, Shawn A. (2010). Black Youth Rising: Activism & Radical Healing in Urban America. Teachers College Press.

  • Gillespie, John B. (2009). To be, or not…to bop: Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Glasrud, Bruce A. (2010). African Americans and the presidency: The road to the white house. Routledge.

  • Grant, William D. (2009). Zambia, then and now: Colonial rulers and their African successors. Routledge

  • Greene, Larry A. (2011). Germand and African Americans: Two centuries of exchange. University Press of Mississippi.

  • Greenwood, Emily. (2010). Afro Greeks: dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century. Oxford University Press.

  • Griffiths, Jennifer L. (2009). Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women’s Writing and Performance. University of Virginia Press.

  • Grigsby, Mary. (2009). College life through the eyes of students. Suny Press.

  • Gustafson, Sandra M. (2010). Cultural narratives: Textuality and performance in American culture before 1900. University of Notre Dame Press.

  • Gutierrez, Ramon A. (2009). Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges. University of Illinois Press.

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  • Hagood, Taylor. (2010). Secrecy, magic, and the one-act plays of Harlem Renaissance women writers. The Ohio State University Press.

  • Hall, Stephen G. (2009). Faithful account of the race: African American historical writing in nineteenth-century America. The University of North Carolina Press.

  • Hallas, Roger. (2009). Reframind bodies: AIDS, bearing witness, and the queer moving image. Duke University Press.

  • Halleran, Michael A. (2010). The better angels of our nature: Freemasonry in the American civil war. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Hain, Peter. (2010). Mandela. Octopus Books.

  • Hayward, Michele H. (2009).Rock art of the Caribbean. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Hinchey, Patricia H. (2010). Finding freedom in the classroom: A practical introduction to critical theory. Peter Lang.

  • Horne, Gerald. (2011). Fighting in Paradies: Labour Unions, Racism and Comunisit in the Making of Modern Hawai’i. University of Hawai’i Press.

  • Houck, Davis W. (2009). Women and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965. University Press of Mississippi.

  • Huddle, Mark A. (2011). Roi Ottley’s World War II: The lost diary of an African American journalist. University Press of Kansas.

  • Huntley, Horace. (2009). Food soldiers for democracy: The men, women, and children of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement. University of Illinois Press.

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  •  Irivuzumugabe, Eric. (2009). My father, maker of the trees: How I survived the Rwandan genocide. Baker Books.

    J

  • Jackson, Sherman A. (2009). Islam, & the problem of black suffering. Oxford University Press.

  • Johnson, Reinhard ). (2009). The liberty party 1840-1848: Antislavery third-party politics in the United States. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Jones, Charles E. (2009). Showdown in Desire: The black panthers take a stand in New Orleans. The University of Arkansas Press.

  • Jones, Jeannette E. (2010). In search of brightest Africa: Reimagining the dark continent in American culture, 1884-1936. The University of Georgia Press.

  • Jordan, Matthew F. (2010). Jazz and French cultural identitiy: Le Jazz. University of Illinois Press.

  • Joyner, Charles. (2009). Down by the riverside: A south Carolina slave community. University of Illinois Press.

    K

  • Klooster, Wim. (2009). Revolutions in the Atlantic world. New York University Press.

  • Konadu, Kwasi. (2009). A view from the east: Black cultural nationalism and education in New York city. Syracuse University Press.

    L

  • Lambert, Frank. (2009). The battle of ole miss: Civil rights v. states’ rights. Brown University .

  • LaSpina, James A. (2009), California in a Time of Excellence: School reform at the crossroads of the American dream. Suny Press.

  • Lavender III, Isiah. (2011), Race in American Science Fiction. Indiana Press.

  • Leiter, Andrew B. (2010). In the shadow of the black beast: African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Lemons, Gary L. (2009). Womanist forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois. State University of New York Press.

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  • Mack-Shelton, Kibibi V. (2010). Ahead of her time in yesteryear: Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman comes of age in a Southern African American family. University of Tennessee Press.

  • Maltz, Earl M. (2010). Fugitive slave on trial: The Anthony Burns case and abolitionist outrage. University Press of Kansas.

  • Marks, Carole C. (2009). Moses and the monser and miss anne. University of Illinois Press.

  • Marshall, Paule. (2009). Triangular Road: A memoir. Basic Civitas Books.

  • McNair, Glenn. (2009). Criminal injustice: Slaves and free blacks in Georgia’s criminal justice system. University of Virginia Press.

  • Mgqolozana, Thando. (2009). A man who is not a man. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

  • Miller, James A. (2009). Remembering Scottsboro: The legacy of an infamous trial. Princeton Press.

  • Miller, Paul T. (2009). The postwar struggle for civil rights: African American sin San Francisco 1945-1975. Routledge.

  • Montgomery, Maxine L. (2010). The fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and spaces of resistance. The University of Tennessee Press.

  • Moore, Leonard N. (2010). Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Morris, Robery V. (2011). Black faces of War: A legacy of honor from the American Revolution to today. Zenith Press.

  • Morrison, Tony. (2009). To die for the people: Huey Newton. City Lights books.

  • Murch, Donna J. (2010). Living for the city: Migration, education, and the rise of the black panther party in Oakland, California.

  • Murphy, Angela F. (2010). American slavery: Irish Freedom. LSU Press.

  • Mwangi, Evan Maina. (2009). Africa writes back to self: Metafiction, gender, sexuality. Suny Press.

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  • Naithani, Sadhana. (2010). The story-time of the British empire: Colonial and postcolonial folkloristics. The University Press of Mississippi.

  • Neil, Anthony W. (2009). Unburdened by Conscience: A black people’s collective account of America’s ante-bellum south and the aftermath. University Press of America.

  • Nelson, Michael. (2010). The Presidents words: Speeches and speechwriting in the modern white house. University Press of Kansas.

  • Nesbitt, Nick. (2009). Universal emancipation: The Haitian revolution and the radical enlightenment. University of Virginia Press.

  • Nowatzki, Robert. (2010). Representing African Americans in transatlantic abolitionism and blackface minstrelsy. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Nyezwa, Mxolisi. (2009). New Country. University of Kwazulu-Natal Press.

    O

  • Ogundiran, Akinwumi. (2010). Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora. Indiana University Press.

  • Opie, Frederick D. (2010). Black labor migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923. University Press of Florida

  • Oriard, Michael. (2009). The end of autumn: Reflections on my life in football. University of Illinois Press.

  • Orr, Stanley. (2010). Darkly perfect world: Colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir. The Ohio State University Press.

  • Oshodi, John E. (2009). A Glance at American presidents in black life: George Washington to George W. Bush A-Z. University Press of America.

  • Otis, Johnny. (2009). Listen to the lambs. University of Minnesota Press.

    P

  • Pargas, Damian A. (2010). The quarters and the fields: Slave families in the non-cotton South. University Press of Florida.

  • Pate, Alexs D. (2009). To smile in Autumn: Gordon Parks. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Peffer, John. (2009). Art and the end of the apartheid. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Peffley, Mark. (2010). Justice in America: The separate realities of blacks and whites. Cambridge University.

  • Perry, Jeffrey B. (2009). Hubert Harrison: The voice of Harlem radicalism, 1883-1918. Columbia University Press/New York.

  • Pitre, Abul. (2009). An introduction to Elijah Muhammad studies. University Press of America.

  • Ngom, Falola. (2009). Facts, fiction and African creative imaginations. Routledge.

  • Patrick Dorsey, Mignette Y. (2010). Speak truth to power: The story of Charles Patrick, A civil rights pioneer. Fire Ant Books.

  • Peterson, Derek R. (2009). Recasting the past: History writing and political work in modern Africa. Ohio University Press.

  • Phillips, Rowan R. (2010). When blackness rhymes with blackness.

  • Pitre, Abul. (2009). Educating African American students: Foundations, curriculum, and experiences. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

  • Polyne, Millery. (2010). From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Hairi, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964. University Press of Florida.

  • Pruitt, Paul M. (2010). Taming Alabama: Lawyers and reformers 1804-1929. The University of Alabama Press.

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    R

  • Raiford, Leigh. (2011). Imprisoned in a luminous glare: Photography and the African American freedom struggle. The University of North Carolina Press.

  • Regester, Charlene. (2010). African American actresses: The struggle for visibility, 1900-1960. Indiana University Press.

  • Reinhardt, Mark. (2010). Who speaks for Margaret Garner? The true story that inspired Toni Morrison’s Beloved. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Riser, Volney. (2010). Defying disfranchisement: Black voting rights activism in the Jim Crow south, 1890-1908. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Roberts-Miller, Patricia. (2009). Fanatical schemes: Proslavery rhetoric and the tragedy of consensus. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Robinson, Charles F. (2010). Forsaking all others: A true story of interracial sex and revenge in the 1880s South”. The University of Tennessee Press.

  • Robinson, Mildred W. (2009). Law touched our hearts: A generation remembers Brown V. Board of Education. Vanderbilt University Press.

  • Rosen, Hannah. (2009). Terror in the heart of freedom: Citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the posemancipation south. The University of North Carolina Press.

  • Rovner, Eduardo S. (2009). The Cuban connection” Drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920’s to the revolution. University of North Carolina Press.

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  • Saint, Chandler B. (2009).Making freedom: The extraordinary life of Venture Smith. Wesleyan University Press.

  • Sanders, Mark A. (2010). A black soldier’s story: The narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban war of independence. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Schafer, Daniel L. (2010). Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African princess, Florida slave, plantation slaveowner. University Press of Florida

  • Scheub, Harold. (2010). The uncoiling python: South African storytellers and resistance. Ohio University Press.

  • Scott, Darieck. (2010). Extravagant abjection: Blackness, power, and sexuality in the African American literacy imagination. New York Universities Press.

  • Sherrod, Richie Jean. (2011). The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement”. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Shellum, Brian G. (2010). Black officer in a Buffalo soldier regiment: The military career of Charles Young. University of Nebraska Press.

  • Singh, Jaspal. (2010). Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post 1994 South African writing. Peter Lang

  • Singler, Joan. (2011). Seattle in black and white: And the fight for equal opportunity. University of Washington Press.

  • Sitkoff, Harvard. (2010). Toward freedom land: The long struggle for racial equality in America. The University Press of Kentucky.

  • Simmons, Martha. (2010). Preaching with sacred fire: An anthology of African American sermon, 1750 to the present. Norton

  • Simon, Rita J. (2009). In their siblings’ voices: White on-adopted siblings talk about their experiences being raised with black and biracial brothers and sisters. Columbia University Press.

  • Smith, Malinda S. (2010). Securing Africa: Post 9/11 discourses on terrorism. Ashgate.

  • Smith, Robert Samuel. (2009). Race, labor & civil rights: Griggs versus Duke Power and the struggle for equal employment opportunity. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Sobel, Mechal. (2009). Painting a hidden life: The art of Bill Taylor. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Stanfield II, John H. (2011). Historical Foundations of Black Sociology. Left Coast Press

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  • Tagore, Proma. (2009). The shapes of silence: Writing by women of colour and the politics of testimony. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

  • Tate, Katherine. (2010). What’s going on? Political incorporation and the transformation of black public opinion. Georgetown University Press.

  • Terrill, Robert E. (2010). The Cambridge companion to Malcom X. Cambridge University Press.

  • Thiong’o, Ngugi W. (2009). Something torn and new: An African renaissance. Basic Civitas Cooks.

  • Thompson, Carlyle V. (2010). Black outlaws: Race, law, and male subjectivity in African American literature and culture. African American Literature and Culture.

  • Toma, J.Douglas. (2010). Building Organizational Capacity. John Hopkins University Press.

  • Tretheway, Natasha. (2010). Beyond Katrina: A meditation on the Mississippi gulf coast. The University of Georgia Press.

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  • VVerchick, Robert. (2010). Facing catastrophe: Environmental action for a post-katrina world. Harvard University Press.

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  • Wailoo, Keith. (2010). Katrina’s imprint: Race and vulnerability in America. Rutgers University Press.

  • Waldrep, Christopher. (2010). Jury discrimination: The supreme court, public opinion, and a grassroots fight for racial equality in Mississippi”. The University of Georgia Press.

  • Wanzo, Rebecca. (2009). The suffering will not be televised: African American women and sentimental political storytelling. Suny Press.

  • Washington, Margaret. (2009). Sojourner Truth’s America. University of Illinois Press.

  • Watts, Trent A. (2010). One homogenous people. The University of Tennessee Press. ‘

  • Weiner, Melissa F. (2010). Power, protest and the public schools: Jewish and African American struggles in New York City. Rutgers University Press.

  • Wellington, Sonnie. (2011). Beside the troubled waters: A black doctor remembers life, medicine, and civil rights in an Alabama town. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Wells, Jonathan D. (2010). Entering the fray: Gender, politics, and culture in the new South. University of Missouri Press.

  • Wertheimer, John W. (2009). Law and society in the south: A history of North Carolina court cases. The University Press of Kentucky.

  • Wheeler, Peter. (2009). Chains and freedom: The life and adventures of Peter Wheeler. The University of Alabama Press.

  • Wilks, Jennifer M. (2009). Race, gender, & comparative black modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cesaire, Dorothy West. Louisiana State University Press.

  • William, R. Zachery. (2009). In search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970. University of Missouri Press.

  • Williams, Craig T. (2010). The Olympian, An American triumph: The story of the first African American Olympic gold medalist. IUniverse.

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  • Ziegler-McPherson, Christina A. (2009). Americanization in the states: Immigrant social welfare policy, citizenship, and national identity in the United States, 1908-1929. University Press of Florida.

     

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