Robeson Taj Frazier. The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 328 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5786-5; $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5768-1.
Reviewed by Joseph Parrott (Yale University/The Ohio State University)
Published on H-Afro-Am (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Jewell Debnam
David Barton Smith. The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. 256 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8265-2107-1.
Reviewed by Ezelle Sanford (Princeton University)
Published on H-Afro-Am (March, 2017)
Commissioned by Jewell Debnam
Joan Quigley. Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 368 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-937151-8.
Reviewed by Sarah J. Shoenfeld (Historian/Principal, Prologue DC)
Published on H-Afro-Am (February, 2017)
Commissioned by Jewell Debnam
Shannon King. Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $49.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-1127-4.
Reviewed by Traci Parker (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Published on H-Afro-Am (January, 2017)
Commissioned by Richard M. Mares
Leah Wright Rigueur. The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 432 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15901-0.
Reviewed by Joshua Farrington
Published on H-Afro-Am (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Jewell Debnam
Andrew J. Torget. Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 368 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-2424-2.
Reviewed by Michael Dickinson (University of Delaware)
Published on H-Afro-Am (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Richard M. Mares
Gordon Keith Mantler. Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 376 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2188-3.
Reviewed by Eddie Bonilla (Michigan State University)
Published on H-Afro-Am (October, 2016)
Commissioned by Richard M. Mares
Rashad Shabazz. Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 184 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08114-9.
Reviewed by David Ponton, III
Published on H-Afro-Am (June, 2016)
Commissioned by Jewell Debnam
Talitha L. LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. 280 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2247-7.
Reviewed by Mari N. Crabtree (College of Charleston)
Published on H-Afro-Am (June, 2016)
Commissioned by Richard M. Mares
LaKisha Michelle Simmons. Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xiii + 266 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-2280-4.
Reviewed by Jennifer Mandel (Mount Washington College)
Published on H-Afro-Am (June, 2016)
Commissioned by Jewell Debnam
Noel Leo Erskine. Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery. Oxford: Oxford University Press. x + 216 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-536913-7; $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-536914-4.
Reviewed by Stephanie Bilinsky (Arizona State University)
Published on H-Afro-Am (April, 2016)
Commissioned by Richard M. Mares
