Books by BMRC Fellows
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Richard Courage
The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950
Rutgers University Press, 2011
2009 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Mabel Wilson
Negro Building: Black Americans in the Worlds of Fairs and Museums
University of California Press, 2012
2010 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Ibram Kendi
The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972
Palgrave-Macmillian, 2012
2011 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Ayesha Hardison
Writing Through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature
University of Virginia Press, 2014
2009 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Sarah Potter
Everybody Else: Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America
University of Georgia Press, 2014
2009 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Thomas Bahde
The Life and Death of Gus Reed: A Story of Race and Justice in Illinois during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Ohio University Press, 2014
2010 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Mary Barr
Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston
University of Chicago Press, 2014
2012 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Catherine Fennell
Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
University of Minnesota Press, 2015
2010 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Mitsutoshi Inaba
John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville
Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
2011 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Christine Zanfanga
Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
University of California Press, 2017
2011 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Danielle Legros Georges
Letters from Congo: Poems
Central Square Press, 2017
2013 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Ian Rocksborough-Smith
Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War
University of Illinois Press, 2018
2012 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Linda Chavers
Violent Disruptions: American Imaginations of Racial Anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright
Peter Lang Publishers, 2018
2013 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Diane Allen Jones
Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
Routledge Press, 2018
2015 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Jacob Dorman
The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race and Moorish Muslims in America
Beacon Press, 2019
2010 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Spencer Dew
The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali
University of Chicago Press, 2019
2011 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Simon Balto
Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
University of North Carolina Press, 2019
2012 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Jonathan Fenderson
Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
University of Illinois Press, 2019
2012 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now
University of Minnesota Press, 2019
2016 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Robert Weems
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
University of Illinois Press, 2020
2010 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
E. James West
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr: Popular Black History in Postwar America
University of Illinois Press, 2020
2013, 2015, 2017 BMRC Fellow
Courtesy of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Kim Gallon
Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press
University of Illinois Press, 2020
2015 BMRC Fellow
