The University of Wisconsin Press is proud to publish books and journals that engage with Black history, culture, and experiences. In celebration of Black History Month, the following titles will be offered at a discount all month long, with discount code BHM2024UWISC. We invite you to click on the hyperlinks below to browse our titles across genres, from narratives by enslaved Americans to works of anthropology, from history to poetry and fiction. You can also follow along on social media as we highlight some of the must-read books included here.
How the End First Showed by D. M. Aderibigbe
Words of Witness: Black Women’s Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era by Angela A. Ards
Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic by Houston A. Baker Jr.
The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams
The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave by Henry Bibb, with a new introduction by Charles J. Heglar
The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace by Jeffrey Brace, as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq., edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter
Grace Engine by Joshua Burton
Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham edited by VèVè A. Clark and Sara E. Johnson
Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America by Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia C. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern
Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by E. David Cronon, foreword by John Hope Franklin
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census by Philip D. Curtin
Livin’ the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet by Frank Marshall Davis, edited and with an introduction by John Edgar Tidwell
Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz
Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl Degler
Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print edited by Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne
Living Black: Social Life in an African American Neighborhood by Mark S. Fleisher
Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-bellum Slave Narratives by Frances Smith Foster
Conjoined Twins in Black and White: The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton edited by Linda Frost
Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge edited by Rebecca Hardin and Kamari Maxine Clarke
Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991 by Christine Hatzky
Race in America: The Struggle for Equality edited by Herbert Hill and James E. Jones Jr.
Black Labor and the American Legal System: Race, Work, and the Law by Herbert Hill
Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez
Practical Audacity: Black Women and International Human Rights by Stanlie James
Understanding and Teaching American Slavery edited by Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, foreword by Ira Berlin
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement edited by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Last Seen by Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism edited by Eric D. Lamore
Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality: Charting the Connections edited by Toni Lester
Early African Entertainments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa’s First Olympians by Bernth Lindfors
Equals in Learning and Piety: Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America by Beverly Mack
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879–1911 edited by Mary Maillard
Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830 by Joseph C. Miller
Meet Me Halfway by Jennifer Morales
Fagen: An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War by Michael Morey
For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics by Bruce L. Mouser
A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics: William Thomas Scott of Illinois, 1839–1917 by Bruce L. Mouser
Òrìṣà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture by Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey
All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color edited by Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer
A Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball by Jerry Poling
Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation by Sandra Pouchet Paquet
After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South by Hortense Powdermaker, with a new introduction by Brackette P. Williams and Drexel Woodson
Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature by Patrice D. Rankine
A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina by Reverend Mrs. Charlotte S. Riley, edited and with an introduction by Crystal J. Lucky, foreword by Joycelyn K. Moody
Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture, by Michaël Roy, translated by Susan Pickford
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said by Omar Ibn Said, translated by Ala Alryyes
When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures by Sheila Smith McKoy
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South by Michael Tadman
Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture by William L. Van Deburg
Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice by Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
American Sex TapeTM by Jameka Williams