Africana Studies

History and Biographies

Ronnick: The Autobiography of William Sanders ScarboroughThe Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

Edited and with an Introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick  •  Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.

Kenyon: Dreaming SuburbiaDreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture

Amy Maria Kenyon

A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom.

Pratt: Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New YorkChurches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895–1994

Henry J. Pratt  •  Preface by Ronald Brown

This groundbreaking study analyzes the relationship between the two powerful forces—church organizations and urban politics—within New York City and Detroit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Eldridge: Willie HortonWillie Horton: Detroit’s Own Willie the Wonder

Grant Eldridge and Karen Elizabeth Bush

The story of baseball legend Willie Horton. Written for readers aged 10+.

Smith: Looking Beyond RaceLooking Beyond Race: The Life of Milton Otis Smith

Otis Milton Smith and Mary M. Stolberg  •  Foreword by Vernon E. Jordon, Jr.

Memoir of the first African American elected to a statewide office since reconstruction.

Jezierski: Enterprising ImagesEnterprising Images: The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847–1922

John Vincent Jezierski

The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America.