Black studies
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Laura E. Helton. Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.
With clear and engaging prose, Helton animates the inventiveness of Black librarians, scrapbookers, collectors, curators, and archivists who salvaged and preserved records of Black life by and for Black communities…
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“A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement
“A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement at The Grolier Club, New York City (7 December 2016–4 February 2017).
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Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 222p., ill. ISBN 9780823272891. US$ 27.00 (paperback), US$ 95.00 (hardcover). I have written…
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Eric Gardner. Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
Eric Gardner. Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 329p. ISBN 9780190237080. US$ 29.95. With Black Print Unbound, Eric…
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Shawn Anthony Christian. The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader
Shawn Anthony Christian. The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. iii, 140p. ISBN 9781625342010 (paper); 9781625342003 (hardcover). $US 25.95 (paper);…
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Cheryl Knott. Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
Cheryl Knott. Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. x, 312p., ill. ISBN 9781625341785. US $28.95.…
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Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth, eds. Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth, eds. Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. 256p. ISBN 9780813936383. US $29.50 (paperback and ebook);…