Jackson Chosen for Liberty Legacy Award
02/13/2007
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson has been selected as winner of the 2007 Liberty Legacy… READ MORE
Category: African American Studies
More Praise for Up South
02/06/2007
In a recent article on scholarly books about Black Nationalism in the 60s and 70s, Multicultural Review commended Matthew Countryman’s Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia for… READ MORE
Reactions to Radical Music
02/01/2007
This Is Our Music by Iain Anderson appears in the Noted section of the February/March Bookforum. Reviewer Douglas Mullin says, "The crooked line Anderson draws from the maverick [Cecil] Taylor…. READ MORE
Freedom Is One Thing, an Essay by Thomas F. Jackson
01/17/2007
A child born on Martin Luther King’s 39th birthday in 1968 turns 39 this January 15. Perhaps that is enough time to sort out his history and settle the core… READ MORE
Now in Paperback–Women’s Radical Reconstruction
01/10/2007
Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement Carol Faulkner 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2003 | ISBN 0-8122-3744-7 | $42.50 | £28.00 Paper Dec 2006… READ MORE
From Civil Rights to Human Rights–Now Available
12/20/2006
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice Thomas F. Jackson 472 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 13 illus…. READ MORE
Romare Bearden Authors on BBC Caribbean
12/18/2006
The BBC Caribbean interviewed Romare Bearden authors Richard and Sally Price about their work on their lavishly illustrated study of the American artist. "Many books have been written about him,"… READ MORE
Besteman Reconnects with Refugees
12/15/2006
Penn Press author and Colby College professor Catherine Besteman discussed her involvement with Maine’s growing African immigrant community in a recent New Yorker article by William Finnegan. A year ago,… READ MORE
Deans and Truants–Now Available
Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature Gene Andrew Jarrett 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3973-3 | $47.50 |… READ MORE
Our Living Manhood–Now Available
12/13/2006
Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology Rolland Murray 160 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3972-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 In Our Living Manhood,… READ MORE
