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… Continue Reading New This Week: March 25th
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it’s essential to honor the resilience and strength of Black women throughout history. In this blog post Brittany Friedman, author of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, delves into the resilience and strength of her grandmother, great grandmother, and their descendants, highlighting their unwavering hope and determination in the face of… Continue Reading Black Women Have Dreams: A Photo Essay of My Ancestors
This Black History Month we’re highlighting Black stories and amplifying Black voices. The following is a Q&A with Casey D. Nichols, assistant professor of history at Texas State University and author of Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America publishing next month, but available for pre-order now. What led you to write Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest… Continue Reading Q&A With Casey Nichols
We’re excited to have three new books publishing today on topics including poetry, women’s basketball history, how media mistreats Black girls, and a dive into grief across generations and oceans. Learn more about these titles below or visit our Hot Off the Press page to see everything new publishing this month. Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball by Pamela… Continue Reading New This Week: February 18th
The following post was originally published on shatteringtheglassbook.com by Pamela Grundy, coauthor of Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball, and is being reposted here with permission. The revised edition of Shattering the Glass is on-sale tomorrow and available wherever books are sold. Black women have long energized American women’s basketball. Marian Washington, C. Vivian Stringer, Lusia Harris,… Continue Reading Black Women Dazzle: Stories of American Women’s Basketball
For Black History Month we’ve been highlighting some of our African American Studies books and amplifying Black voices here on the blog. Next up in our series is a Q&A with Aria S. Halliday, associate professor of gender and women’s studies and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky and author of Black Girls and How We Fail… Continue Reading Q&A With Aria S. Halliday
February is Black History Month, a time to honor the legacy, achievements, and contributions of African Americans throughout history and to amplify Black voices shaping our present and future. Since our founding in 1922 UNC Press has made a commitment to publishing in the field of African American studies. In fact, we were the first scholarly publisher to develop an… Continue Reading Celebrating Black History Month: Essential Reads
New this week is a biography of Doc Watson and a history of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Learn more about these two enlightening titles or visit our Hot Off the Press page to see everything new that published this month. Doc Watson: A Life in Music by Eddie Huffman American Music: New Roots “A vivd portrait . . . The… Continue Reading New This Week: January 28th
Today, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we’re featuring an excerpt from the introduction of Living The Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Daniel T. Fleming. You can also check out this guest post from Daniel on the history of MLK Jr. Day. On January 20, 1986, half a million people looked on as the… Continue Reading The History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day: An Excerpt from “Living the Dream”
UNC Press is proud to announce that Ronald Williams II is one of the Whiting Foundation’s 2024 recipients of the $40,000 Creative Nonfiction Grant, given to writers in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction. Williams II’s BLACK EMBASSY: TransAfrica and the Struggle for Foreign Policy Justice is forthcoming from UNC Press—the only publication from a university press… Continue Reading Whiting Foundation 2024 Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Ronald Williams II
The following is a guest post from Sydney Nathans, author of Freedom’s Mirage: Virgil Bennehan’s Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile, which traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South’s largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black… Continue Reading Dear Young Master and Friend: How One Letter Turned into a Biography
Looking for a good read that will both entertain and educate? If so you’ve come to the right place. This week we have a history of the local story behind Brown v. Board and a book challenging one of America’s favorite pastimes: college football. Check out what’s new this week or head to our Hot Off The Press Page to see all… Continue Reading New This Week: November 19th
Congratulations are in order for Marlene L. Daut, Sara E. Johnson, and Emily A. Owens, three of the four finalists—published by the University of North Carolina Press, and by Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press—for the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,… Continue Reading Yale Announces 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
Another week, another batch of new books publishing. Today we have books spanning topics on segregation scholarships in the US south, teen pop culture at the turn of the twenty-first-century, and North Carolina Politics. Find your next favorite read among these new titles or browse our Hot Off The Press page to see everything new this month. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners,… Continue Reading New This Week: October 15th
Another week, another New Books Tuesday! This week we’re celebrating the release of TANGLED JOURNEYS, an ambitious historical narrative that tells a multigenerational, multiracial story that invites us into the process of American history making itself. Learn more about the book below and browse all of our new books this month here. Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History… Continue Reading New This Week: September 17th
Happy September! With the first day of fall at the end of the month, now is the perfect time to start filling up your shelves for some cozy fall reading. Luckily, we have a great selection of new books publishing this month. Check out our September releases below or browse everything new this season in our Fall/Winter Catalog. Plus, if… Continue Reading New This Month: September 2024
It’s Tuesday and you know what that means: new books! Today’s new books include a book that explores the University of Georgia’s long history of racism and the struggle to overcome it and a new book in our envisioning Cuba series. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here. Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the… Continue Reading New This Week: August 27th
It’s New Books Tuesday and we have two new books that are now officially on sale wherever books are sold. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here. Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician by by Margaret Humphreys “Humphreys has written a superb biography that makes a… Continue Reading New This Week: August 20th
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing in films, streaming specials, and online videos. Across these mediums, humor—and particularly sass—functions as a tool for Black women to articulate and redress cultural, social, and political marginalization. The following is an excerpt from Sass: Black Women’s… Continue Reading Black Women’s Humor in the Cultural Marketplace: An Excerpt from “Sass”
The following is a guest post by Lois Benjamin, author of Ascension: The Sociology of an African American Family’s Generational Journey, which is now available wherever books are sold. “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” H. Jackson Brown’s line captures the process of making this groundbreaking, ethnographic case study, Ascension: The Sociology of an African American Family’s… Continue Reading A Novel Way of Researching the Family as a Caring Community
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