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The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
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Robin Means Coleman
Oxford University Press (2025)
Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation
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Tiffany Barber
New York University Press (2025)
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
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Andrew Kahrl
Chicago University Press (2024)
Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency and Possibility in Everyday Digital Practice
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Ashleigh Greene Wade
Duke University Press (2024)
Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
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Laura E. Helton
Columbia University Press (2024)
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
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Robin Means Coleman
Simon & Schuster (2023)
Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present
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Robin Means Coleman
Routledge (2023)
Fit Citizens
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University of North Carolina Press (2023)
Trafficking in Antiblackness
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Duke University Press (2023)
Black Patience
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Julius Fleming, Jr.
NYU Press (2022)
Disabilities of the Color Line
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NYU Press (2022)
Amphibious Subjects
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University of California Press (2022)
Haitian Revolutionary Fictions
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University of Virginia Press (2022)
The Mark of Slavery
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University of Illinois Press (2021)
Soundscapes of Liberation
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Duke University Press (2021)
Finding Afro-Mexico
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Cambridge University Press (2021)
Kwame Nkrumah
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Ohio University Press (2021)
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
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Duke University Press (2021)
Designing a New Tradition
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Penn State University Press (2020)
The Lonely Letters
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Ashon Crawley
Duke University Press (2020)
Becoming Human
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NYU Press (2020)
Otherwise Worlds
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Ashon Crawley
Duke University Press (2020)
Phonograpic Memories
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Njelle Hamilton
Rutgers University Press (2019)
Age of Concrete
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Ohio University Press (2019)
Building the Black Arts Movement
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University of Illinois Press (2019)
A Little Child Shall Lead Them
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University of Virginia Press (2019)
Masquerading Politics
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Indiana University Press (2018)
Singing Yoruba Christianity
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Indiana University Press (2018)
We Face the Dawn
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University of Virginia Press (2018)
Medical Bondage
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University of Georgia Press (2018)
An Ethnography of Hunger
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Indiana University Press (2018)
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
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University of Georgia Press (2018)
Albert Luthuli
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Robert Trent Vinson
Ohio University Press (2018)
The Common Wind
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Verso Books (2018)
Black for a Day
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University of North Carolina Press (2017)
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
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Palgrave MacMillan (2017)
A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865
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University of Virginia Press (2016)
Keep On Keeping On The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia
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University of Virginia Press (2016)
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
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Ashon Crawley
Fordham University Press (2016)
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
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University of North Carolina Press (2016)
The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
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Andrew Kahrl
University of North Carolina Press (2016)
Black Woman Reformer
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University of Georgia Press (2015)
Non-Sovereign Futures
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University of Chicago Press (2015)
London is the Place for Me
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University of Oxford Press (2015)
Tropics of Haiti
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Liverpool University Press (2015)
Historically Black
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NYU Press (2014)
Schooling Jim Crow
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University of Virginia Press (2014)
Conflict Bodies
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Ohio State University Press (2014)
Stones of Contention
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Ohio University Press (2014)
The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration
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Deborah E. McDowell
University of Virginia Press (2013)
Music, Performance and African Identities
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Routledge (2013)
Living the Hiplife
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Duke University Press (2013)
The Muse is Music
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University of Illinois Press (2013)
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
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University of Virginia Press (2012)
Freedom Has a Face
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University of Virginia Press (2012)
Gabriel's Conspiracy
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University of Virginia Press (2012)
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
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Palgrave-MacMillan (2012)
Words, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans
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University of Virginia Press (2012)
The Americans Are Coming!
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Robert Trent Vinson
Ohio University Press (2012)
Doing Time in the Depression
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NYU Press (2012)
Working the Diaspora
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NYU Press (2012)
The Predicament of Blackness
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University of Chicago Press (2012)
The Properties of Violence
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University of Mississippi Press (2012)
Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy
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University of Virginia Press (2012)
Talk with You Like a Woman
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University of North Carolina Press (2010)
Our Living Manhood
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University of Pennsylvania Press (2009)
Disturbing the Peace
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Harvard University Press (2009)
African American Midwifery in the South
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Gertrude Fraser
Harvard University Press (2009)
Terror in the Heart of Freedom
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University of North Carolina Press (2009)
Enterprising Women
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Indiana University Press (2009)
Criminal Injustice
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University of Virginia Press (2009)
Strategies for Survival
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University of Virginia Press (2009)
Coming of Age in Utopia
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New South Books (2009)
American Muslim Women
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NYU Press (2008)
American Africans in Ghana
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Kevin Gaines
University of North Carolina Press (2008)
Race and Democracy
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University of Georgia Press (2008)
Segregation's Science
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University of Virginia Press (2008)
Wandering a Gendered Wilderness
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers (2007)
This Little Light of Mine
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University of Kentucky Press (2007)
The Nature of Entrustment
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Yale University Press (2007)
Chicago's New Negroes
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University of North Carolina Press (2007)
Experiencing Mount Vernon
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University of Virginia Press (2006)
Dividing Lines
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University of Alabama Press (2006)
Blowin’ Hot and Cool
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The Segregated Scholar
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"New Negroes from Africa”
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Indiana University Press (2006)
A Little Taste of Freedom
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University of North Carolina Press (2005)
Democratic Discourses
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Rutgers University Press (2005)
Righteous Propagation
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University of North Carolina Press (2004)
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960
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University of North Carolina Press (2004)
Bitter Fruits of Bondage
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University of Virginia Press (2004)
The Rebellious Slave
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2003)
Paradise and Plantation
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University of Virginia Press (2003)
Feeding Desire
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Routledge (2003)
The Claims of Kinfolk
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University of North Carolina Press (2003)
Social Death and Resurrection
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John E. Mason
University of Virginia Press (2003)
Slavery and Identity
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Indiana University Press (2003)
Divided We Stand
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Princeton University Press (2002)
A Different Day
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University of North Carolina Press (2002)
Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
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Oxford University Press (2002)
Women of Fire and Spirit
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Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
Oxford University Press (2002)
The Underneath of Things
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University of California Press (2001)
Migrants Against Slavery
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University of Virginia Press (2001)
The Adventures of Amos 'N' Andy
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University of Virginia Press (2001)
Bittersweet Legacy
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University of North Carolina Press (2001)
The Union League Movement in the Deep South
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Louisiana State University Press (2000)
Black Prisoners and their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
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University of Virginia Press (2000)
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction
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University of Virginia Press (2000)
Rituals of Race
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University of Virginia Press (1999)
To Joy My Freedom
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Harvard University Press (1998)
Militant Mediator
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University Press of Kentucky (1998)
Just My Soul Responding
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University of California Press (1998)
Inventing Masks
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University of Chicago Press (1998)
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin
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Deborah E. McDowell
W.W. Norton (1998)
Fire This Time
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Da Capo Press (1997)
Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa
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University of Gainesville Press (1997)
Contempt and Pity
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University of North Carolina Press (1997)
Enterprising Southerners
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University of Virginia Press (1997)
The Work of Reconstruction
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Cambridge University Press (1996)
Uplifting the Race
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Kevin Gaines
University of North Carolina Press (1996)
Peripheral Migrants
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University of Tennessee (1996)
A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas
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University of Virginia Press (1996)
Silver Rights
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Harvest Books (1996)
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
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Chicago University Press (1996)
A New Plantation South
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University of Virginia Press (1996)
Days of Hope
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University of North Carolina Press (1996)
Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad
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University of Virginia Press (1996)
Virginia Landmarks of Black History Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places
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University of Virginia Press (1995)
Virginia Landmarks of Black History
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University of Virginia Press (1995)
Bond of Iron
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W.W. Norton (1995)
Love and Theft
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Oxford University Press (1995)
Ancestral House
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Westview Press (1995)
"The Changing Same" Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory
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Deborah E. McDowell
Indiana University Press (1995)
Local People
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University of Illinois Press (1995)
Cultivation and Culture
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University of Virginia Press (1993)
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
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University of Virginia Press (1993)
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
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Cambridge University Press (1992)
Emancipation in the Virginia Tobacco Belt, 1850-1870
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University of Georgia Press (1992)
The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89
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University of Virginia Press (1992)
Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History
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University of Virginia Press (1991)
Simple Decency and Common Sense
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Indiana University Press (1991)
Freedom Summer
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University of Virginia Press (1990)
Soldiers, Traders, and Slaves
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University of Wisconsin Press (1990)
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
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University Press of Virginia (1990)
A Little God
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Wesleyan University Press (1990)
The Novels of Alex LA Guma
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Three Continents Press (1990)
Faulkner's "Negro"
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Louisiana State University Press (1983)
New Directions in Civil Rights Studies
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University of Virginia Press
Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
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Deborah E. McDowell
University of Virginia Press