We’re excited to connect with you at this year’s ASALH meeting in Montgomery. If you have projects in process that you’d like to discuss, we’d encourage you to setup a meeting with UMass Press’s executive editor, Brian Halley ([email protected]) or swing by our booth in the exhibit hall.
We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce you to some of our recent titles in African-American history and culture, particularly the newest entries in our African American Intellectual History series, edited by Christopher Cameron. For a limited time, you can save 40% off the titles featured here with the promo code MAS065 (offer expires October 31, 2022).

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The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In Demonstration
The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana
The Origins of an Iconic Image
Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
African American Periodical Cultures
Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice
Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds
A History of Slavery in New England
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Free Soil in Antislavery Boston
William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line
Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama's America
Essays and Sketches
The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature
Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Measuring the Harlem Renaissance
The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form
Readings in Africana Philosophy
African American Travel Narratives from Abroad
Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow
Selected Speeches and Writings of A. Philip Randolph
A Black Arts Movement Reader
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume III
Selections, 1944–1963
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume I
Selections, 1877–1934
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume II
Selections, 1934–1944