Series Editor(s): Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara Patrick B. Miller, Northeastern Illinois University
Many of the classic works of African American social thought have fallen from print. The African American Intellectual Heritage series seeks to bring back into print such essential books. Each book has a new introduction by an expert contemporary scholar and an up-to-date bibliography on the intellectual in question. The series also publishes new books on the history of African American intellectual life and on ideas about race.
A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900–1959
by Nannie Helen Burroughs
Edited by Kelisha B. Graves
Price: $35.00
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
This collection of works by Burroughs illuminates her views on religion, society, black womanhood, and social justice and restores the spotlight to an integral African American theologian, philosopher, activist, and intellectual.
Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship
by Christopher A. McAuley
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: August 2019
Format: Hardcover
Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864–1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing...
A timely installment in our national narrative, Color is a chronicle of the black middle class, a group rarely written about with sensitivity and charity.
In 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African...
Racial Thinking in the United States is a comprehensive reassessment of the ideas that Americans have had about race. This useful book draws on the skills and perspectives of nine scholars from the...
Published in 1944, What the Negro Wants was a direct and emphatic call for the end of segregation and racial discrimination that set the agenda for the civil rights movement to come.With essays by fourteen...
Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Jonathan Holloway and Ben Keppel
Price: $40.00
Pub Date: June 2007
Format: Paperback
This anthology asks how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, the development of American social thought and social science scholarship.
An examination of how West Indian women have contributed to the creation of Anglophone Caribbean society and examines how Caribbean womanhood is defined and articulated
Born in Trinidad in 1901, Oliver Cromwell Cox emigrated to the United States in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1974. After earning advanced degrees in economics and sociology from the University...
