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Politics and Culture in Modern America
Books in the series examine political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels. The series is motivated by a desire to encourage synthetic perspectives.
Series Editors:
Keisha N. Blain
Professor of History and Africana Studies, Brown University
Margot Canaday
Professor of History, Princeton University
Matthew Lassiter
Professor of History, University of Michigan
Stephen Pitti
Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Thomas J. Sugrue
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics
Jessica Ann Levy
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828573
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Black Power, Inc. examines the transnational rise of Black empowerment politics from the 1960s through the early 2000s and from the United States to Africa, highlighting how various public and private actors reconciled American-style free enterprise with anti-apartheid politics at the local, national, and international level.
The Silver Women argues that Black West Indian women made the construction of the Panama Canal possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. The book links this labor to the histories of U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
Strange Bedfellows recounts the unlikely ways in which the efforts of feminists and divorced men's activists dovetailed with the activity of lawmakers, judges, welfare activists, immigrant spouses, the LGBTQ community, the Reagan coalition, and other Americans, to redefine family and marriage without relying on traditional gender norms.
Cracked Foundations reveals that the postwar suburban boom was built on debt and speculation. Historian Michael R. Glass shows how home mortgages and municipal bonds made suburban life increasingly precarious and insecure, and how they established inequalities that have persisted to this day.
Black Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black liberal tradition.
Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism amid the War on Crime
Caitlin Reed Wiesner
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828269
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
In the 1970s, Black anti-rape organizers inflected Black women’s tradition of community-based caring with Black feminist condemnation of patriarchal and state violence. Between the Street and the State deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on Crime.
Wildcat of the Streets reveals how the “community policing” approach of Mayor Coleman Young (1974–1993) transformed Detroit into a crucial site of experimentation in policing while continuing to subject many Black Detroiters, especially young people, to police brutality and repression.
Blue-Collar Conservatism presents a nuanced portrait of the blue-collar, white supporters of Philadelphia’s police-commissioner-turned-mayor Frank Rizzo and the populist politics that emerged. Reissued with a new preface that explores the rise of Donald Trump and the changes to Philadelphia’s demographics and politics since the Rizzo era.
Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
Kai Parker
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512827521
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement, known as Ethiopianism, that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism.
Broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights movement, Up South explores the efforts of two generations of Black Philadelphians to turn their city into a place of opportunity for all. Reissued with a new preface that continues the story of civil rights activism in Philadelphia up to the Black Lives Matter movement.
