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 Editor
Debbie Gershenowitz, Executive Editor, UNC Press
Debbie.Gershenowitz@uncpress.org
Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: October 2020
Unceasing Militant
The Life of Mary Church Terrell
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: December 2020
Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom
Mulattoes and Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: September 2020
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
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2020
Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal
By Kate Dossett
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2020
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: January 2021
Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s
By Traci Parker
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: April 2019
Not Straight, Not White
Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: February 2019
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: February 2018