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Erica L. Ball
"[An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker." Booklist, Starred Review - Madam C. J. Walker--reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire--has long been celebrated for…
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Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America’s first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life…
Based on original archival sources, this sweeping and groundbreaking work brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined…
A special issue of Radical History Review In bringing together a geographically and temporally broad range of interdisciplinary historical scholarship, this issue of Radical History Review offers an expansive examination…
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Erica L. Ball,Melina Pappademos,Michelle Ann Stephens
Aims to revitalize African diaspora studies. This book covers the understandings of African and diaspora as a dispersal of Africans from African continent via the Atlantic slave trade and offer…
In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.
These essays–from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies–interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected…
