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
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
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
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
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
The Promise of Patriarchy
Women and the Nation of Islam
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: October 2017
Game of Privilege
An African American History of Golf
By Lane Demas
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: September 2017
Congo Love Song
African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
By Ira Dworkin
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: June 2017
Making Gullah
A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Published: April 2017