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
Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina
Sponsoring UNC Press Editor
Debbie Gershenowitz, Assistant Editorial Director
Debbie.Gershenowitz@uncpress.org

The First Reconstruction
Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
By Van Gosse
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: August 2022

Game of Privilege
An African American History of Golf
By Lane Demas
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2022

Arise Africa, Roar China
Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
By Yunxiang Gao
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: December 2021

May We Forever Stand
A History of the Black National Anthem
By Imani Perry
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: October 2021

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
African American Children in the Antebellum North
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: June 2021

Behold the Land
The Black Arts Movement in the South
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: June 2021

The Colored Conventions Movement
Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman , Jim Casey , Sarah Lynn Patterson
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: March 2021

At the Threshold of Liberty
Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2021

Colored Travelers
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2021

Visualizing Equality
African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: September 2020