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February 17, 2025

Black Women Dazzle: Stories of American Women’s Basketball

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

Categories Africa & African Diaspora/African American Studies/Sports/Women's Studies
February 12, 2025

Q&A With Aria S. Halliday

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

Categories African American Studies/Women's Studies
February 5, 2025

Celebrating Black History Month: Essential Reads

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

Categories Africa & African Diaspora/African American Studies/Reading Lists
February 21, 2024

Food As a Weapon: An excerpt from “Food Power Politics”

This week for Black History Month, we’re sharing an excerpt from the introduction of Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Bobby J. Smith II which was the first book in our Black Food Justice Series. “[Smith] shows how the struggles of the region’s Black communities laid the groundwork for the modern food justice… Continue Reading Food As a Weapon: An excerpt from “Food Power Politics”

Categories African American Studies/Food Studies/Southern Studies
February 15, 2024

Biographies to Read During Black History Month

February is Black History Month and to celebrate we’ve been sharing book excerpts and reading lists of our African American studies titles here on the blog. Black History cannot be understood without taking an individual look at the lived experiences and stories of Black people themselves. As such, we have curated a list of Biographies highlighting the Black experience. Ranging… Continue Reading Biographies to Read During Black History Month

Categories African American Studies/Reading Lists
February 7, 2024

Worry about Yourself: An Excerpt from “Eating While Black”

During the second week of Black History Month, enjoy this excerpt of Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson, which was awarded the 2023 James Beard Foundation Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy. Worry about YourselfWhen Food Shaming Black Folk Is a Thing In May 2019, an unsuspecting female African American employee of… Continue Reading Worry about Yourself: An Excerpt from “Eating While Black”

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts
February 1, 2024

Must-Read Books During Black History Month

Happy Black History Month! Since 1976 the US has been celebrating Black History during the entire month of February. Long before that, however, UNC Press was already publishing distinguished scholarship on African American studies and we are proud to continue to do so. Most recently we announced the launch of our Black Women’s History Series which also hosts an incubator… Continue Reading Must-Read Books During Black History Month

Categories African American Studies/Reading Lists
February 27, 2023

Black History Month Reading List: Biographies

To celebrate Black History Month we have been sharing reading lists of relevant Black history titles for you to enjoy all month long. The final installment of our reading lists focuses on biographies, telling the stories of Black lives and experiences. Make sure to also browse our full list of African American studies titles, learn about our new Black Women’s History Series, and keep… Continue Reading Black History Month Reading List: Biographies

Categories African American Studies/Biography / Autobiography/Reading Lists
February 24, 2023

Read Hammer and Hoe for Free

We’re excited to announce that in celebration of the inaugural issue of Hammer and Hope: A Magazine of Black Politics & Culture, you can now read Hammer and Hoe by Robin D. G. Kelley for free until 3/22/23. The Magazine, whose name is inspired by the award winning book, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression by Robin… Continue Reading Read Hammer and Hoe for Free

Categories African American History/African American Studies/UNC Press News
February 21, 2023

Trending This Month: February

See what’s trending at UNC Press with this reading list of the most viewed books on our website this month. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Robin D. G. Kelley Elliott Rudwick Prize, Organization of American Historians Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America Francis… Continue Reading Trending This Month: February

Categories African American Studies/Reading Lists
February 20, 2023

Black History Month Reading List Curated by Debbie Gershenowitz

To celebrate Black History Month we are sharing reading lists of relevant black history titles for you to enjoy all month long. The following reading list is curated by Assistant Editorial Director, Debbie Gershenowitz, who acquire’s books on United States, Latin American, and Caribbean history. Debbie’s particular areas of interest include: Black history; the history of the African diaspora; histories of enslavement, abolition,… Continue Reading Black History Month Reading List Curated by Debbie Gershenowitz

Categories African American Studies/Reading Lists
February 13, 2023

Black History Month Reading List Curated by Dawn Durante

To celebrate Black History Month we are sharing reading lists of relevant black history titles for you to enjoy all month long. This reading list is curated by Assistant Editorial Director, Dawn Durante, who acquire’s books on topics that span history and cultural studies, with commitments to African American history and Black studies, women’s history, and particularly Black women’s history,… Continue Reading Black History Month Reading List Curated by Dawn Durante

Categories African American Studies/Reading Lists
February 6, 2023

Black History Month Reading List: Black Resistance

In celebration of Black History month, we will be featuring reading lists of relevant titles throughout February. This week’s reading list is inspired by the theme, chosen by the founders of Black History Month: the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), which is Black Resistance. You can also browse our full list of African American… Continue Reading Black History Month Reading List: Black Resistance

Categories African American Studies/Reading Lists
February 2, 2023

Black History Month Reading List: Black Voices

UNC Press began publishing books on African American studies in the late 1920’s and we are proud to continually publish distinguished scholarship in this area. In celebration of Black History Month we will be highlighting titles that amplify black voices, underline the black experience, and engage with Black history. You can find weekly reading lists here on the blog and… Continue Reading Black History Month Reading List: Black Voices

Categories African American Studies/Reading Lists
March 17, 2022

Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development

The following is an excerpt from Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European… Continue Reading Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts/Political Science
March 1, 2022

Class Interruptions: The Wrong Side of The Tracks

Happy Women’s History Month! Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.”… Continue Reading Class Interruptions: The Wrong Side of The Tracks

Categories Africa & African Diaspora/African American Studies/Excerpts/Literature/Women's Studies
February 28, 2022

Black History Month 2022 Reading List: The Black International Experience

In celebration of Black History Month, we’ve chosen to publish a new reading list every week featuring only Black authors. The first reading list covered Black resistance, the second covered the Black American experience, the third covered biographies and this week’s reading list centers the Black international experience. While we may not all live in the same area of the world, many… Continue Reading Black History Month 2022 Reading List: The Black International Experience

Categories Africa & African Diaspora/African American Studies/Cuba/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Literature/Reading Lists/Sociology/Women's Studies
February 24, 2022

Birth of the New Afrikan Independence Movement: A Historical Overview

The following is an excerpt from Edward Onaci’s Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State. On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans’ best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a… Continue Reading Birth of the New Afrikan Independence Movement: A Historical Overview

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts/Political Science
February 23, 2022

Race and Class Identities in Early American Department Stores

The following is an excerpt form Traci Parker’s Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s. In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built… Continue Reading Race and Class Identities in Early American Department Stores

Categories African American Studies/Excerpts/Labor Studies
February 22, 2022

Black History Month 2022 Reading List: Biographies

In celebration of Black History Month, we’ve chosen to publish a new reading list every week featuring only Black authors. The first reading list covered Black Resistance, the second covered the Black American experience and this week’s reading list centers biographies; telling the stories of a few vastly different lives lived under the Black identity umbrella. As mentioned in the… Continue Reading Black History Month 2022 Reading List: Biographies

Categories African American Studies/American Studies/Appalachian Studies/Biography / Autobiography/Creative Nonfiction/Gender Studies/LGBT Studies/Literature/Music/North Carolina/Political Science/Reading Lists/Sociology/Women's Studies