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Explores how African American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as "black music". David Gilbert shows how they used the rhythmic sounds of ragtime, blues, and jazz to construct new representations of black identity, challenging preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity.

Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America

The role of slaves and free blacks in the politics of secession.

UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.

By exploring the role of Oberlin - the college and the community - in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes this "hotbed of abolitionism" as the core of the antislavery movement in the US West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum America.

American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910-1930

Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, this explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s to the 1850s.

Veteran media executive Penelope Muse Abernathy draws on cutting-edge research and analysis to reveal pathways to transformation and long-term profitability for community newspapers. Offering practical guidance for editors and publishers, Abernathy shows how newspapers can build community online and identify new opportunities to generate revenue.

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans.

An illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled for its footing in a Protestant-dominated society often openly hostile to Catholics.

To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote. Using psychoanalytic, feminist, and social theories, Susan Squier explores the transformed meaning of the city in Woolf's essays, memoirs, and novels as it functions in the creation of a mature feminist vision.

Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

Craig discusses the impact of modern thought and invention upon literature's essential business of communication; the continuing vitality of a classic as illustrated by the abiding influence of Lucian; and the significance of the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia.

Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove

Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

Traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. The author explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond.

Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy

"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Offers a bold mapping out of areas of research that should be explored in detail by the medical and social sciences during the coming decades. It is based on the belief that the extraordinary medical progress of the first half of the twentieth century, which proceeded largely from the laboratory and clinic, can be continued only if the medical sciences embrace the bio-social field of research.

John Brown Still Lives!: America s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change"

This original research study of residential treatments of problem adolescents represents one of the few attempts in the field to observe in a systematic fashion the residents' living situation in the institutional setting. An innovative field experiment is developed to contrast the interaction of counsellors and residents as they create three distinctive cottage subcultures.

Revealing the complex and often tense relationships between the Johnson administration and activist groups advocating further social change, the author extends the traditional timeline of the civil rights movement beyond the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932

Offers a history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice who led some of the successful local campaigns in the civil rights movement. The author provides a narrative of a working-class armed self-defense movement that played a crucial role in compelling the federal government to neutralize the Ku Klux Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.

Postwar American officials desired, in principle, to promote Arab-Israeli peace in order to stabilize the Middle East. This book shows how, during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, the desire for peace was not always an American priority. Instead, they consistently gave more weight to their determination to contain the Soviet Union.

One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. But the author demonstrates that the transformation of the disease from fatal condition into a chronic illness is tinged with irony and one which illuminates the human consequences of medical intervention.

Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement