Black History Month October 2022
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Afrotopia
Bestsellers & Classics
Felwine Sarr Translated by Drew S. Burk & Sarah Jones-Boardman Through a reflec�on on contemporary African writers, ar�sts, intellectuals, and musicians, philosopher Felwine Sarr elaborates Africa’s unique philosophies and no�ons of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient tradi�ons and landscape. Sarr takes the reader on a philosophical journey that is as much inward as outward, demanding an eleva�on of the collec�ve consciousness. Along the way, one sees the contours of an africanity, a contemporary Africa united as a con�nent through the creoliza�on of its cultural tradi�ons. This is Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Univocal March 2020 128pp 9781517906917 £21.99 PB
Reckoning with Slavery
Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic Jennifer L. Morgan "Reckoning with Slavery challenges historians who have reckoned with slavery in the numerical sense without reckoning in the intellectual and moral sense with the subjec�vity and intellectual work of enslaved people. . . . The threads of this rich and powerful work will generate new scholarship for years to come."–Diana Paton, Black Perspec�ves "There is much about this book that's deeply impressive. The depth and breadth of the research give a solidity to the argument that belies the difficult and fragmentary sources."–Tim Lockley, Ethnic and Racial Studies Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to reveal the contours of early modern no�ons of trade, race, and commodifica�on in the Black Atlan�c. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2021 12 llus. 312pp 9781478014140 £23.99 PB
The Columbian Orator
The Racial Contract
Edited by David W. Blight
"Frederick Douglass validated his manhood by giving Edward Covey, his surrogate slave master, a good whipping. What inspired his fists was not only manly rage, but libera�ng knowledge gained in part from his reading of The Columbian Orator. I read it now and the words s�ll inspire and inflame."–Ossie Davis "The Columbian Orator was of profound importance to the shaping of the African American canon, through The Narra�ve of Frederick Douglass. David Blight has done historians and literary cri�cs a profound service by so expertly edi�ng this germinal text. A must read for scholars of American and African American studies."–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Harvard University "Thousands of young readers in 19th century America learned about eloquence and liberty from the s�rring speeches, plays, and poems in The Columbian Orator. When one reads it todayeven be�er, reads it aloudits eloquence speaks to us all."–Sydney Nathans, Duke University NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 1998 296pp 9780814713235 £22.99 PB
Second Edition Charles W. Mills Foreword by Tommie Shelby "Mills contends that the ground zero of Western democra�c socie�es is not the mythical social contract that has prevailed among poli�cal philosophers but a 'racial contract.'"–The Na�on "This book is a testament to Mills's exper�se as a philosopher, a scholar, and a downright intelligent writer."–Small Axe "An important and �mely reminder of the ways in which a philosophy which ignores race is bound up with the privileging of whiteness."–Women's Philosophy Review This 25th anniversary edi�on of The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills shows how the society we live in is a con�nuing white supremacist state. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2022 216pp 9781501764288 £21.99 PB
The Revolt of the Black Athlete 50th Anniversary Edition Harry Edwards
"A useful addi�on to any syllabus for students of American poli�cs or of journalism and in par�cular sports journalism."–Irish Independent "Edward's essen�al posi�on in the movement, his memory of the events, and his ability to connect them to present-day ac�vism make this book a mustread."–Journal of Sport History This Fi�ieth Anniversary edi�on of Harry Edwards's classic of ac�vist scholarship arrives even as a new genera�on engages with the issues he explored. Edwards moves his story forward to our era of protests, boyco�s, and the drama�c poli�ciza�on of athletes by Black Lives Ma�er. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Sport and Society August 2018 20 b&w photos, 1 line drawing 232pp 9780252084065 £16.99 PB
Writings on Media
History of the Present Stuart Hall Edited by Charlotte Brunsdon “Stuart Hall revolu�onized the cri�cal study of media, posi�oning them—newspapers, photographs, television—as key sites of struggle over cultural meaning and power, and thus as central to the project of cultural studies. Above all, however, Hall did not just write about media but used them prolifically as outlets for cri�cal interven�on in the world. This superb set of essays tes�fies to the uniquely powerful voice of one of the most important public intellectuals in pos�mperial Britain.”–Ien Ang, Dis�nguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University Wri�ngs on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding” (1973) to other wri�ngs addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the prac�ces of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the na�on imagines itself through popular media. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stuart Hall: Selected Wri�ngs November 2021 19 llus. 352pp 9781478014713 £24.99 PB