2024 Association for the Study of African American Life & History Annual Meeting
UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Association for the Study of African American Life & History annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#7 in the Sternwheeler Room) to say hello to editors Andrew Winters & Dawn Durante and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth!
Congratulations to Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Emily A. Owens, & Ava Purkiss! Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America, Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans, & Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America were all finalists for the 2024 Association for the Study of African American Life & History Book Prize.
And be sure to check out some of our great series!
Black Food Justice (NEW!)
Series Editors: Ashanté Reese, University of Texas at Austin & Hanna Garth, Princeton University
The Black Food Justice series publishes new scholarship at the intersection of Black studies and critical food studies. While books may address any aspect of producing, distributing, or consuming food, the series features scholarship that explores how Blackness can be theorized and understood through the study of food and/or how the meaning of food itself is challenged and transformed when analyzed through theoretical frameworks grounded in Black thought and liberation. As ethnographers of everyday life who have been working as both food justice scholars and activists in the U.S. and beyond for over a decade each, the series editors shaped this series with the intention to name, define, and create future visions for Black food justice scholarship that can have material implications for protecting, nourishing, and cherishing Black life.
Black Women’s History (NEW!)
Series Editors: Talitha L. LeFlouria, University of Texas at Austin, Ashley D. Farmer, University of Texas at Austin, & Daina Ramey Berry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Black Women’s History draws on the research and teaching of generations of scholars who have developed the distinctive theories and methods that have made Black women’s history a robust field. Works in this series reflect and build upon the archives, approaches, and themes elucidated by classic and cutting-edge scholarship to push the field in new directions. In a moment that demands a reckoning with the past and the tools historians use to recount it, the Black Women’s History series meets this challenge and transforms how historians and popular audiences understand the world today.
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture
Series Editors: Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley & Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
The best scholarship in African American history and culture compels us to expand our sense of who we are as a nation and forces us to engage seriously the experiences of all Americans who have shaped the development of this country. By publishing pathbreaking books informed by several disciplines, the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture seeks to illuminate America’s multicultural past and the ways in which it has informed the nation’s democratic experiment.
Series Editors: Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan & Rhonda Y. Williams, Wayne State University
The Justice, Power, and Politics series publishes new works that explore questions of social justice and political power and struggles for justice in the twentieth century. The series pursues—and brings into conversation with each other—books that use the lenses of justice, power, and politics to help readers better understand the evolution of the United States in the last century. The series includes works by both junior and more seasoned scholars that will find common ground not only in their content but also by broadening the way we think about these issues.
Stop by either our in-person booth or our virtual booth to browse our titles on display! Be sure to use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to receive our 40% conference discount. And if your order totals over $75, domestic US shipping is FREE.