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More than 550 books representing the finest contemporary scholarship in the field of
African American history and culture.
- 19th Century History
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- #BLM/Black Lives Matter/Policing
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- Sports
- Abrams Books
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Arcadia Publishing
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- Chicago Review Press
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- Stanford University Press
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- The Historic New Orleans Collection/University Press of Virginia
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- Verso Books
- Viking Press
- W.W. Norton & Co.
- Wayne State University Press
- Wesleyan University Press
- West Virginia University Press
- Westminster John Knox Press
- Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
- Yale University Press
2021 submission
pam waterman
2021 submission
pam waterman
The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
2024 Shortlist
pam waterman
2024 Shortlist
pam waterman
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
2021 Submission
pam waterman
2021 Submission
pam waterman
From the Bayou to the Bay: The Autobiography of a Black Liberation Scholar
2024 Submission
pam waterman
2024 Submission
pam waterman
Our Hidden Conversation: What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition
2024 Shortlist
pam waterman
2024 Shortlist
pam waterman
A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
2021 submission
pam waterman
2021 submission
pam waterman
Soul Care in African American Practice
2024 Submission
pam waterman
2024 Submission
pam waterman
Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
2020 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2020 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
2023 Finalist
pam waterman
2023 Finalist
pam waterman
The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era
2018 Shortlist
pam waterman
2018 Shortlist
pam waterman
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
2022 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado