“A reckoning of a book. Horovitz renders the full range of human potential, with characters and plot turns to match. Criminals turn out to be innocent. Prosecutors turn out to be freedom fighters. Their story raises a question: if, individually and together, we are capable of so full a range, then what choices are we making? … Continue reading Justice Pursued
Heritage Studies: A Reading List
Are you interested in exploring questions related to how and why people interpret and remember the past? Take a look at our books in cultural heritage studies, beginning with our suggested reading list of recent titles below. To view more books, click here. Use code HERIT for discount prices through December 16. Free shipping within … Continue reading Heritage Studies: A Reading List
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground
“Orser offers a significant contribution to contemporary archaeology, providing a detailed yet concise synthesis of how material culture has revealed new and important insights into the history of enslavement and the resilience of African and African-descended communities in the United States.”—Diane Wallman, coeditor of Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate “The author … Continue reading Living Ceramics, Storied Ground
The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
“Jackson is a person whose image appears often in history but whose story has been relatively unknown. Cason’s work makes an important contribution by detailing the life of a successful musician who hitched his star to a mainstream, consensus culture and thus was welcomed and favored among local, state, and national politicians. Jackson’s career is … Continue reading The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
New Paperback Release: Ancestors of Worthy Life
“Teresa Moyer’s book serves as an important bridge between the work of history, archaeology and modern activism: it gives a structure of how to begin to change the telling of the past.”—Anthropology Book Forum “Moyer’s case study of the historic house museum of Mount Clare plantation is a boldly put, compelling call to action that … Continue reading New Paperback Release: Ancestors of Worthy Life
New Paperback Release: Atlantic Passages
“An innovative addition to the growing body of scholarship on Liberian colonization. . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the colonization movement or identity formation in the nineteenth century Atlantic World.”—Journal of Social History “A compelling narrative of Atlantic and American racialization in West Africa. . . . People interested in the histories of … Continue reading New Paperback Release: Atlantic Passages
From Death Row to Freedom
“A detailed, riveting, and shocking narration of how two Black men in Florida’s Panhandle were terrorized by police into falsely confessing to murder and then convicted in a racist court. The defense attorney author describes the struggle in the courts to correct this injustice. A gripping true story of how racial injustice in the law … Continue reading From Death Row to Freedom
New Paperback Release: Picturing Black New Orleans
“Fascinating.”—LA Weekly “[An] alluring book.”—New Orleans Magazine “Anthony delivers a warm and detailed portrait of Collins and some facets of New Orleans’ rich and richly complicated culture in the early 20th century.”—Gambit “Readers will appreciate amusing and emotional anecdotes while also gaining a strong sense of what New Orleans was like in those 20th-century decades for … Continue reading New Paperback Release: Picturing Black New Orleans
To Tell a Black Story of Miami
“Powerfully breaks up ‘diverse South Florida’ as image and practice of anti-Blackness and white supremacy. McInnis critically dialogues with the storytelling testimony, pleasure, and resistance of African Americans, Bahamians, Haitians, and Afro-Cubans, showing how multiple Black South Floridas, in the keenness of literature and film, make up and unsettle Miami.”—Antonio Lopez, author of Unbecoming Blackness: The … Continue reading To Tell a Black Story of Miami
A Lost Princess Remembered in Senegal
Written by Daniel L. Schafer, author of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, Revised and Expanded Edition In 1806, at the public market in Rufisque, a coastal fishing village in Senegal, West Africa, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye was sold as a slave to merchants from nearby Gorée … Continue reading A Lost Princess Remembered in Senegal
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