Linda M. Heywood, Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2017).
Thomas Holt, Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1977) (From the book jacket: Holt's "primary themes are these: that the power of black leaders, though significant, was complicated by other interrelationships, notably the governor's control of patronage; that schism by color, caste, and economics among black leaders reduced their effective exercise of that power; and that the defections, dissension, and fear of defeat which sent the South Carolina party into decline were primarily determined by local events and actors, not by the national administration.").
Robert S. Levine, The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Cambridge, Massachusettss, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2016).
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America (New York: Little, Brown, 2011).
Hollis Robbins & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books, 2017).
Lorraine Elena Roses, Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940 (Amherst & Boston: U. of Massachusetts Press, 2017) ("This study does not offer a comprehensive narrative of African American cultural production across the centuries, although one is sorely lacking. Instead, it highlights the cultural dynamics of the 1920s and 1930s, when the black population, not large enough to wield influence through electoral politics, forged alternative strategies to bridge racial and socioeconomic divides. An analysis of their strategies highlights the interplay of constraints and agency, and the drive to assert a black presence by all means possible." Id. at 5.).
