Spring 2012 - University of California Press

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Mabel O. Wilson
Negro Building
Black Americans in the
World of Fairs and Museums
Focusing on black Americans’ participation
in world’s fairs, Emancipation expositions,
and early black grassroots museums, Negro
Building traces the evolution of black public
history from the Civil War through the civil
rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O.
Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived
the curatorial content—Booker T.
Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells,
A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and
Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening
of the National Museum of African
American History and Culture in
Washington, D.C., approaches, the book
reveals why the black cities of Chicago and
Detroit became the sites of major black historical
museums rather than the nation’s
capital—until now.
Mabel O. Wilson is Associate Professor of
Architecture at Columbia’s Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where
she directs the program for Advanced Architectural
Research.
A George Gund Foundation Book in African
American Studies
MAY
464 pages, 6 x 9”, 57 b/w photographs
American Art/African American History/
US History
World
cloth 978-0-520-26842-5 $39.95sc/£27.95
Theresa Runstedtler
Jack Johnson,
Rebel Sojourner
Boxing in the Shadow of
the Global Color Line
In his day, Jack Johnson—born in Texas,
the son of former slaves—was the most
famous black man on the planet. As the
first African American World Heavyweight
Champion (1908–1915), he publicly challenged
white supremacy at home and
abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle
of conspicuous consumption, masculine
bravado, and interracial love wherever
he traveled. Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner
provides the first in-depth exploration of
Johnson’s battles against the color line in
places as far-flung as Sydney, London, Cape
Town, Paris, Havana, and Mexico City. In
relating this dramatic story, Theresa
Runstedtler constructs a global history of
race, gender, and empire in the early
twentieth century.
Theresa Runstedtler is Assistant Professor of
American Studies at the University of Buffalo.
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A George Gund Foundation Book in African
American Studies
APRIL
376 pages, 6 x 9”, 19 b/w photographs
Sports/African American History/Race Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-27160-9 $34.95sc/£24.95
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