New This Week: March 25th

We have two new books publishing this week. One looks at nineteenth-century law and literature and the other examines Black and Brown protest in post-civil rights America. Learn more about these titles below or visit our Hot Off the Press page to see everything new publishing this month.

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature by Faith Barter

“Faith Barter remakes African American literary studies as a genealogy, and she is truly doing something spectacular for law and literary connections in nineteenth-century studies. [The book] belongs alongside other important texts in nineteenth-century history and literature. Original and necessary.”—Samantha Pinto, University of Texas at Austin

“Black Pro Se is a compelling, creative, and original work of scholarship. Faith Barter has written a model of how to theorize law and literature in a way that does justice to both—a work that will be generative for scholars in law, literature, history, and their intersections for many years to come.”—Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson University

Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America by Casey D. Nichols

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“A nuanced, clear argument for the central role that Black and Brown actors played in making the Los Angeles civil rights movement more racially inclusive and class-conscious.”—Sonia Song-Ha Lee, author of Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

“Casey Nichols takes a compelling new tack in the study of Los Angeles’s civil rights struggles by front-ending the activism and agency of Black and Brown Angelenos in the fight for economic justice. By focusing on the War on Poverty and the Model Cities program, she makes an important contribution to our understanding of antipoverty crusades at the local level.”—Brian D. Behnken, author of Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835–1935