The Western Journal of Black Studies

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WJBS BOOK LIST 2008 / 2009


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  • Acker, James R. (2008). Scottsboro and its legacy. Praeger Publishers.
  • **Adejumobi, Saheed A. (2007). The history of Ethiopia. Greenwood Press.
  • Adekunle, Julius O. (2007). Cultures and customs of Rwanda. Greenwood Press
  • Alba, Richard. (2009). Immigration and religion in America: Comparative and historical perspectives. New York University Press.
  • **Alexander, Leslie M. (2008) African or African American. University of Illinois Press.
  • Allen, Troy D. (2009). The Ancient Egyptian Family: Kinship and Social Structure. Routledge
  • **Allman and Isaacman. (2008) Law, Language, and Science. Heinemann.
  • Armstrong, Julie. (2009). The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation. The University of Georgia Press.
  • **Austin, Michael (2008). Football and Philosophy: Going Deep. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press.
  • Bailey, Eric J. (2008). Black America, body beautiful: How the African American image is changing fashion, fitness, and other industries. Praeger Publishers.
  • Ballantyne, Tony. (2009). Moving subjects: Gender, mobility, and intimacy in an age of global empire. University of Illinois Press.
  • Bandele, Ramla M. (2008). Black star: African American activism in the international political economy. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Banks, James A. (2007). Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society. Teachers College Press.
  • Beito, David T. (2009). Black Maverick: T.R.M Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. University of Illinois Press.
  • Bell, Kevin. (2007). Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity. University of Minnesota Press.
  • **Benjamin Lois (2008). Three Black Generations at the Crossroads. Rowman and Littlefield publishers.
  • Berman, Jeffrey. (2009). Death in the Classroom: Writing About Love and Loss. Suny Press
  • **Bevins, Mary Wren (2007) Telling Stories, Making Histories. Heinemann.
  • Bibler, Michael P. (2009). Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968. University of Virginia Press.
  • **Bishop, Rudine Sims. (2007). Free Within Ourselves. Greenwood Press
  • Bixby, Janet S. (2008). Educating Democratic Citizens in Troubled Times: Qualitative Studies of Current Efforts. Suny Press.
  • Blake, Cecil. (2009). The African Origins of Rhetoric. Routledge.
  • Boehm, Lisa Krissoff. (2009). Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration. University Press of Mississippi.
  • Boyd, Michelle R. (2008). Jim Crowe Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Bradley, Stefan M. (2009). Harlem vs Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960’s. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Bratcher, Melanie E. (2007). Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone. Routledge.
  • Brivic, Shelly. (2009). Tears of Rage: The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction, Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Broadnax , Samuel L. (2007), Blue Skies Black Wings. Praeger Publishers.
  • **Buford May, Rueben. (2007). Living Through the Hoop: High school Basketball, Race, and the American Dream. New York University Press.
  • **Bunton, Rita J. (2007). The Battle is Not Yours. Michigan State University Press.
  • **Burton, Art T. (2008) Black Gun, Silver Star. University of Nebraska Press.
  • Bush, A.E. (2008). History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officials. The University of Arkansas Press.
  • Carew, Joy Gleason. (2008). Blacks, Reds and Russians: Sojourners in the Search of the Soviet Promise. Rutgers University Press.
  • Catsam, Derek C. (2009). Freedom’s main line: The journey of reconciliation and the freedom rides. The University Press of Kentucky.
  • Chipasula, Frank M. (2009). Bending the bow: An anthology of African love poetry. Southern Illinois University Press.
  • Chiwengo, Ngwarsungu. (2007). Understanding Cry, the Beloved country. Greenwood Press
  • Coleman Finnie D. (2008). Sutton E. Griggs. University of Tennessee Press.
  • Cordero, Anne D. (2009). Simone de Beauvoir: Wartime diary. University of Illinois Press.
  • Cotera, Maria Eugenia. (2008). Native speakers. University of Texas Press.
  • Covey, Herbert C. (2007). African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments. Lexington Books.
  • **Cross, Wilbur (2007).Gullah culture in America. Praeger Publishers.
  • Cruse, Harold. (2009). Rebellion or revolution. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Dabel, Jane E. (2008). A respectable woman: The public roles of African American women in 19th century New York. New York University Press.
  • Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo. The early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Davidson, West James (2007). ‘They Say’ Ida B. Wells and the reconstruction of race Oxford University press.
  • **Davis, David, Brion (2008). Inhuman bondage. Oxford University Press.
  • **Diouf, Sylvaine A. (2007). Dreams of Africa in Alabama. Oxford University Press
  • Djata, Sundiata. (2008). Blacks at the net: Black achievement in the history of tennis, Volume 2. Syracuse University Press.
  • **Dosset, Kate (2008). Bridging race divides. University of Florida Press.
  • Dwyer, Owen J. (2008). Civil rights memorials and the geography of memory. The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago.
  • Farley, Honathan. (2008). Southern Africa: Making of the contemporary world. Routledge.
  • **Farr, Cecilia. (2008). The Oprah affect: Critical essays on Oprah’s book club. State University of New York Press.
  • **Ferguson, Ronald F. (2008). Toward excellence with equity: An emerging vision for closing the achievement gap. Harvard Education Press.
  • Fosl, Catherine. (2009). Freedom on the border: An oral history of the civil rights movement in Kentucky. The University Press of Kentucky.
  • Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. (2008). Slavery in white and black: Class and race in the southern slaveholders’ new world order. Cambridge University Press.
  • Frampton, Mary Louise. (2008). After the war on crime: Race, democracy, and a new reconstruction. New York University Press.
  • Friedman, Joel W. (2009). Champion of civil rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom. Louisiana State University Press.
  • **Gasman, Marybeth. (2008). Understanding minority-serving institutions. University of New York Press.
  • **Gates, Henry Louis & Jarrett, Gene Andrew. (2007) The new negro. Princeton press.
  • Gatewood, Willard B. (2008). From slavery to wealth: The life of Scott Bond. Phoenix International.
  • Geggus, David P. (2009). The world of the Haitian Revolution. Indiana University Press.
  • Gendron, Richard . (2009). The leftmost city: Power and progressive politics in Santa Cruz. Westview Press.
  • Gillespie, John B. (2009). To be, or not…to bop: Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Gillman, Susan and Weinbaum, Alys Eve. Eds. (2007). Next to the color line. University of Minnesota Press.
  • **Graham, Mekada (2007). Black issues in social work and social care. Policy Press.
  • Grant, William D. (2009). Zambia, then and now: Colonial rulers and their African successors. Routledge
  • Greenspan, Ezra. (2008). William Wells Brown: A reader. The University of Georgia Press.
  • Grigsby, Mary. (2009). College life through the eyes of students. Suny Press.
  • **Groody, Daniel G. Eds. (2007). The Option for the poor in Christian theology. University of Notre Dame Press.
  • Gutierrez, Ramon A. (2009). Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Hale, Dana S. (2008). Races on display: French representations of colonized peoples, 1886-1940. Indiana University Press.
  • **Hamilton, Ruth Simms. Eds. (2007) Routes of passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora. Michigan State University Press
  • Harris, Leonard. (2008). Alain L. Locke: The biography of a philosopher. The University of Chicago Press.
  • **Holloway, Jonathan Scott and Keppel, Ben. (2007) Black scholars on the line. University of Notre Dame Press.
  • Holmes, Malcolm D. (2008). Race and police brutality: Roots of an urban dilemma. Suny Press.
  • **Hoppe, Sherry L. and Speck Bruce W. (2007). Maxine Smith’s unwilling pupils University of Tennessee Press
  • Horne, Gerald. (2008). The end of empires: African Americans in India. Temple University Press.
  • Houck, Davis W. (2009). Women and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965. University Press of Mississippi.
  • **Houck and Grindy (2008) Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press. University Press of Mississippi.
  • Hume, Richard L. (2008). Blacks, carpetbaggers and scalawags: The constitutional conventions of radical reconstruction. Louisiana State University Press.
  • **Hutchinson, George Eds. (2007). The Harlem Renaissance. Cambridge University Press.
  • Huntley, Horace. (2007). Black workers’ struggle for equality in Birmingham. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Home, Gerald (2007). The white Pacific. University of Hawaii Press.
  • Hyra, Derek S. (2008). The new urban renewal: The economic transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Ikard, David (2007). Breaking the silence. Louisiana State Press.
  • Inscoe, John C. (2008). Race, war, and remembrance: In the Appalachian South. The University Press of Kentucky.
  • Irivuzumugabe, Eric. (2009). My father, maker of the trees: How I survived the Rwandan genocide. Baker Books.
  • Jackson, Sherman A. (2009). Islam, & the problem of black suffering. Oxford University Press.
  • **Jackson, Troy. (2008). Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the making of a national leader. University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, KY.
  • **Janis, Michael. (2008). Africa after Modernism. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
  • **Jeater, Diana. (2007). Law, language, and science: The invention of the “Native mind” in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930. Heinemann.
  • Jefferson, Robert F. (2008). Fighting for hope: African American troops of the 93rd infantry division in World War II and postwar America. The John Hopkins University Press.
  • Jenkins, Candice M. (2007). Private lives, proper relations: Regulating black intimacy. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Jensen, Steffen. (2008). Gangs, politics & dignity in Cape Town. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Johnson, Cedric. (2007). Revolutionaries to race leaders: Black power and the making of African American politics. University of Minnesota 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.
  • Justesen, Benjamin R. (2008). Broken brotherhood: The rise and fall of the National Afro-American Council. Southern Illinois University Press.
  • Kean, Melissa. (2008). Desegregating private higher education in the South. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Kersten, Andrew E. (2007). Race, jobs, and the war: The FEPC in the Midwest. 1941-46. University of Illinois Press.
  • **King, Lovalerie (2008). Race, Theft, and Ethics. Louisiana State Press.
  • **Kirschke, Amy H. (2007). Art in Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for African American identity and memory.
  • Klooster, Wim. (2009). Revolutions in the Atlantic world. New York University Press.
  • Koritz, Amy. (2009). Culture makers: Urban performance and literature in the 1920’s. University of Illinois Press.
  • Kraut, Anthea (2008). Choreographing the folk: The dance stagings of Zora Neale Hurston.  University of Minnesota Press.
  • **Lacy, Karyn R. (2007). Blue-chip Black: Race, class, and status in the new Black middle class.
  • **Langely, April (2007). The Black aesthetic unbound. Ohio State University Press.
  • LaSpina, James A. (2009), California in a Time of Excellence: School reform at the crossroads of the American dream. Suny Press.
  • **Lenhoff, Howard M. (2007). Black Jews, Jews and other heroes. Gefen Publishing House.
  • Lindsay, Beverly. (2008). Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public intellectual & Nobel Peace laureate. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Lodge, Tom (2007). Mandela A critical life. Oxford University Press.
  • 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. 
  • **Mazama, Ama. (2007). Africa in the 21st century: Toward a new future. Routledge.
  • Melton J. Gordon (2007). A will to choose. The Rowman and Littlefield publishing group.
  • Merseth, Katherine K. (2009). Inside Urban Schools. Harvard Education Press.
  • **Macleod, Jay (2008) Ain’t no making it Westview Press.
  • **Marshall, Paule. (2009). A memoir: Triangular Road. BasicCivitas Books. New York, NY.
  • McCluskey, Audrey T. (2008). Richard Pryor: The life and legacy of a “crazy” Black man. Indiana University Press.
  • McNulty, Ian. (2008). A season of night: New Orleans life after Katrina. University Press of Mississippi.
  • 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.
  • Mitchell, Mary Niall. (2008). Raising freedom’s child: Black children and visions of the future after slavery. New York University Press.
  • **Mitchman, Y. Stephanie (2008). Faith, health, and healing. Praeger Publishers.
  • Miller, David Adam (2007). Ticket to exile. Heday books.
  • Mumford Kevin. (2007). Newark: A history of race, rights, and riots in America. New York University Press.
  • **Modan, Gabriella Gahila. (2007). Turf Wars: Discourse, diversity, and the  politics of place. Blackwell Publishing.
  • **Mpe, Phaswane. (2008). Brooding clouds. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
  • Nasir, Na’ilah Suad. (2007). Improving access to mathematics: Diversity and equity in the classroom.
  • 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, Charmaine A. (2007). Sculpting the Black female subject in the nineteenth-century America: The color of stone. University of Minnesota Press.
  •  Nieves, Angel David and Leslie M. Alexander (2008). We shall independent be: African American place making and the struggle to claim space in the United States. Boulder, CO: Colorado University Press.
  • **Norris, Randall. (2008). Highway 61: Heart of the Delta. The University of Tennessee Press.
  • Ntshingila, Futhi. (2008). Shameless. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
  • Nyezwa, Mxolisi. (2009). New Country. University of Kwazulu-Natal Press.
  • Oakes, Jeannie. (2008). Beyond tracking: Multiple pathways to college, career, and civic participation. Harvard Education Press.
  • Obadele-Starks, Ernest (2008). Freebooters and smugglers. The University of Arkansas Press.
  • O’ Donnell, Guillermo. (2007). Dissonances: Democratic critiques of democracy. University of Notre Dame Press.
  • **Ogundirian and Falola (2008). Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora. Indiana University Press.
  • **Okafor, Victor Oguejiofor. (2008). Nigeria’s stumbling democracy and its implications for Africa’s democratic movement. Praeger Security International.
  • Okonkwo, Christopher N. (2008). A spirit of dialogue: Incarnations of Obganje, the born-to-die, in African American Literature. The University of Tennessee Press.
  • **O’Malley, Padraig (2007) Shades of difference. Penguin Group.
  • Oriard, Michael. (2009). The end of autumn: Reflections on my life in football. University of Illinois 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.
  • Parker, Karen F. (2008). Unequal crime decline: Theorizing race, urban inequality, and criminal violence. New York University Press.
  • Parks, Gregory S. (2008). Black Greek-letter organizations in the 21st century: Our fight has just begun. The University Press of Kentucky.
  • Pattillo, Mary. (2007). Black on the block: The politics of race and class in the city. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Payne, Charles M. (2008). So much reform, so little change: The persistence of failure in urban schools. Harvard Education Press.
  • Peffer, John. (2009). Art and the end of the apartheid. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Perkins, Kathy A. (2008). African women playwrights. University of Illinois Press.
  • Peterson, Christopher. (2007). Kindred specters: Death, mourning, and American affinity. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Pitre, Abul (2007). The educational philosophy of Elijah Muhammad. University Press of America
  • Pohlmann, Marcus D. (2009). Opportunity lost: Race and poverty in the Memphis City schools. The University of Tennessee Press.
  • **Price, Marie and Lisa Benton-Short. (2008). Migrants to the metropolis: The rise of immigrant gateway cities. New York: Syracuse University Press.
  • Pritchett, James A. (2007). Friends for life, friends for death: Cohorts and consciousness among the Lunda-Ndembu. University of Virginia Press.
  • Potter, Hillary. (2008). Battle cries: Black women and intimate partner abuse. New York University Press.
  • **Rabaka, Reiland (2007). W.E.B. Du Bois and the problems of the twenty-first century. Lexington Books
  • **Ramsey, Sonya (2008). Reading, writing, and segregation. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Rhodes, Jane (2007). Framing the Black Panthers. The New Press.
  • Rijn, Guido Van. (2007). Kennedy’s blues: African-American blues and gospel songs on JFK. University Press of Mississippi.
  • Robinson, Edward J. (2008). A godsend to his people: The essential writings and speeches of Marshall Keeble. The University of Tennessee Press.
  • **Robinson, Edward J. (2008). To uplift my race. University of Tennessee Press.
  • Robinson, Edward J (2008) A godsend to his people. University of Tennessee Press.
  • Robinson, Mildred W. (2009). Law touched our hearts: A generation remembers Brown V. Board of Education. Vanderbilt University Press.
  • Robinson, Natalie S. (2008). The slave ship Clotilda and the making of African Town, USA. Praeger Publishers.
  • **Roediger, David R. (2008). How race survived U.S. history: From settlement and slavery to the Obama phenomenon. Brooklyn, NY: Verso.
  • Rudd/Bond (2007). From slavery to wealth:  The life of Scott Bond. Phoenix International
  • Saint, Chandler B. (2009). Making freedom: The extraordinary life of Venture Smith. Wesleyan University Press.
  • **Schramm-Pate, Susan. (2008). Grappling with diversity: Readings on Civil Rights pedagogy and critical multiculturalism. State University of New York Press.
  • Scholder, Amy. Eds. (2007). Dr. Rice in the House. Seven Stories Press.
  • Schultz, Mark. (2007). The rural face of White supremacy: Beyond Jim Crowe. University of Illinois Press.
  • Schroer, Timothy L. (2007). Recasting race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-occupied Germany. University Press of Colorado.
  • Sherman, Max. Eds. (2007). Barbara Jordan: Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder. University of Texas Press.
  • **Sherwood, John Darrell. (2007) Black sailor, white navy. New York University Press.
  • Shifflett, Crandall. (2008). John Washington’s Civil War: A slave narrative. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Shimron, Gad. (2007). Mossad Exodus: The daring undercover rescue of the lost Jewish tribe. Gefen Publishing House.
  • 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.
  • Skal, David J. (2008). Claude Rains. University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, KY.
  • **Singer, Slan J. (2008). New York and slavery: Time to teach the truth. State University of New York Press.
  • Smith, Robert Samuel. (2009). Race, labor & civil rights: Griggs versus Duke Power and the struggle for equal employment opportunity. Louisiana State University Press.
  • **Snay, Mitchell (2007). Fenians, freedmen, and Southern Whites. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Sobel, Mechal. (2009). Painting a hidden life: The art of Bill Taylor. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Somers-Willett, Susan B.A. (2009). The cultural politics of slam poetry: Race, Identity, and the performance of popular verse in America. The University of Michigan Press.
  • Sowell, Thomas. (2007). A man of letters. Encounter Books.
  • Stallings, L.H. (2007). Mutha’, is half a word?: Intersections of folklore, vernacular, myth, and queerness in black female culture. The Ohio State University Press.
  • Stamps and Stamps (2008). Salt City and its Black community. Syracuse University Press.
  • Stella, Regis Tove. (2007). Imagining the other: The representation of the Papua New Guinean subject. University of Hawaii Press.
  • Street, Joe. (2007). The culture war in the Civil Rights Movement. University Press of Florida.
  • Sumler-Edmond, Janice L. (2008). The secret trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The life and trials of a free woman of color in Antebellum Georgia. The University of Arkansas Press.
  • Thiong’o, Ngugi W. (2009). Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance. Basic Civitas Cooks.
  • Thompson, Julius E. (2007). Lynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865-1965. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
  • Thompson, Mark Christian. (2008). Black Fascisms. University of Virginia Press.
  • Topping, Simon. (2008). Lincolns lost legacy: The Republican Party and the African American vote, 1928-1952. University Press of Florida.
  • **Waites, Cheryl. (2008). Social work practice with African American families: An intergenerational perspective. New York: Routledge.
  • Waldrep, Christopher. (2008). African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
  • **Walker, Corey D. B. (2008). A noble fight: African American freemasonry and the struggle for democracy in America. University of Illinois Press.
  • **Walker, Susannah (2007). Style & status: Selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975
  •  Walton, Hanes Jr., (2009). Letters to President Obama: Americans share their hopes and dreams with the first African American President. Skyhorse Publishing. Inc.
  •  Washington, Margaret. (2009). Sojourner Truth’s America. University of Illinois Press.
  • White, Aaronette M. (2008). Ain’t I a feminist? African American men speak out on fatherhood, friendship, forgiveness, and freedom. Suny Press.
  •  Wilderson, Frank B. (2008). Incognegro: A memoir of exile & apartheid. South End Press.
  •  Wilks, Jennifer M. (2009). Race, gender, & comparative black modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cesaire, Dorothy West. Louisiana State University Press.
  • Williams, Hettie V. (2008). We shall overcome to we shall overrun: The collapse of the civil rights movement and the black power revolt. University Press of America.
  • Williams, Lea E. (2009). Servants of the people: The 1960’s legacy of African American leadership. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • **Williams, Oscar R. (2007). George S. Schuyler: Portrait of a Black conservative University of Tennessee Press
  • Williamson, Joy Ann. (2008). Radicalizing the ebony tower: Black colleges and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi. Teachers College Press.
  •  Yancy, George. (2007). Philosophy in multiple voices. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC.
  • Young, Jason (2007). Rituals of Resistance. Louisiana State University press.

 

 

 

     



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