The Carter G. Woodson Institute, U.Va.

The Carter G. Woodson Institute

for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia
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Publications

Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism:

Marlene L. Daut

Phonograpic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
Njelle W. Hamilton
Tropics of Haiti

Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865:

Marlene L. Daut
Blackpentecostal Breath The Aesthetics of Possibility

Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility:

Ashon T. Crawley
Constructing the Black Masculine Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995

Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995:

Maurice O. Wallace
The Changing Same Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory

"The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory:

Deborah E. McDowell
Leaving Pipe Shop Memories of Kin

Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin:

Deborah E. McDowell
The Land Was Ours How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South:

Andrew W. Kahrl
Bitter Fruits of Bondage The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865

Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865:

Armstead L. Robinson
Bitter Fruits of Bondage The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865

Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia:

Gregory Michael Dorr
Criminal Injustice Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System

Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System:

Glenn McNair
Strategies for Survival Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia

Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia:

William Dusinberre
Words, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans

Words, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans:

Valerie C. Cooper
Words, Like Fire Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans

Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy:

Michael L. Nicholls
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery:

Henry Goings; ed Calvin Schermerhorn, Michael Plunkett, and Edward Gaynor
Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia

Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia:

Kirt von Daacke
Gabriel's Conspiracy: A Documentary History

Gabriel's Conspiracy: A Documentary History:

Philip J. Schwarz, ed
The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration

The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration:

Deborah E. McDowell, Claudrena N. Harold, and Juan Battle, eds
Schooling Jim Crow The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics

Schooling Jim Crow The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics:

Jay Winston Driskell Jr.
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Carter G. Woodson Institute Series:

Deborah E. McDowell, ed
Keep On Keeping On The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia

Keep On Keeping On The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia:

Brian J. Daugherity
Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer:

Sally Belfrage
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts

Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts:

Michael Plunkett
New Directions in Civil Rights Studies

New Directions in Civil Rights Studies:

Armstead L. Robinson and Patricia Sullivan, eds
Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History

Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History:

Leroy Vail and Landeg White
The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89

The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89:

Robert A. Pratt
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas:

Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, eds.
Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad

Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad:

Sam C. Nolutshungu
Virginia Landmarks of Black History Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places

Virginia Landmarks of Black History Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places:

Calder Loth, ed.
Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s

Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s:

Gerald Horne
A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas

A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas:

Jeannie M. Whayne
A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865

A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865:

Patience Essah
Free Blacks

Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860: The Darker Side of Freedom :

Tommy L. Bogger
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782–1865

Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782–1865:

Midori Takagi
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South:

Talitha L. LeFlouria
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915
Robert Kenzer
Rituals of Race

Rituals of Race: American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
Alessandra Lorini
Coming of Age in Utopia

Coming of Age in Utopia: The Odyssey of an Idea
Paul Gaston