Featured Books - AAIHS - Page 28

Black Food Geographies: A New Book on Food Politics in Washington, D.C.

June 7, 2019May 25, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, food, geography, Resistance, Washington DC

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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On Richard Wright’s Hunger and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Field Brown book review, Deep South, embodiment, food, literature, memoir, Mississippi, South

Richard Wright’s famous autobiography, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) was originally titled American Hunger. However, the

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History

May 31, 2019June 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, labor, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors

May 29, 2019May 21, 2019 Christopher Bonner Activism, black politics, black protest, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

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