AFRICAN AMERICAN AND BLACK STUDIES

Afro-Nostalgia Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Badia Ahad-Legardy

“Part Afrofuturistic, part academic, this book will make you rethink how you understand Black history and storytelling.” —BookRiot

“Essential.” —Ms. Magazine

“This thoroughly researched book seeks and sheds light on the spaces where Black joy can live and flourish. Though its tone is academic, its insights reach far beyond the classroom .... A worthy addition to any multicultural studies library and to readers interested in American culture.” —The Museum of Americana A volume in The New Black Studies Series Pub April 2021. 6 x 9 in. 224 pp. University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-08566-6 Paper, $26.95; 978-0-252-05255-2 eBook, $14.95

Appealing Because He Is Appalling Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism Edited by Tamari Kitossa

Readers are invited to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, paradoxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. The authors use Baldwin’s and Fanon’s cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black masculinities to demonstrate their neglected contributions to thinking about and beyond colonialist and Western gender and masculinity studies. Pub June 2021. 6 x 9 in. 496 pp. University of Alberta Press 978-1-77212-543-6 Paper, $49.99; 978-1-77212-553-5 ebook, $49.99

The Black Intellectual Tradition African American Thought in the Twentieth Century Edited by Derrick P. Alridge, Cornelius L. Bynum, and James B. Stewart

This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders.

By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the US and the Diaspora, the essays in The Black Intellectual Tradition delve into the ideas that animated a people’s striving for full participation in American life. A volume in The New Black Studies Series Pub July 2021. 6 x 9 in. 344 pp.

University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-08584-0 Paper, $27.95; 978-0-252-05275-0 eBook, $14.95