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In the Black: A Brief History of Early Black Women Investors (Mar 22, 2019)
“Moving fluidly from the change purse to the bank vault, Banking on Freedom offers the first full accounting of the financial sector, womanhood, and Afro-America simultaneously transformed. Rich and brilliant.” ~ N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida Black women have historically played a role
Book Excerpt! Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (introduction and chapter 2) (Mar 21, 2019)
“Shennette Garrett-Scott’s compelling and highly original account demonstrates that, for black people, banks were more than financial institutions. In the hands of black women, capital accumulation, credit, and insurance became community building practices, mutual aid, strategies for collective survival, and sources of contestation. Banking on Freedom offers a new perspective on the entire community and the nation.”
Book Excerpt! Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic (chapter 1) (Mar 20, 2019)
“Ivanova’s work is a fascinating exploration of the reception, reproduction, and reimagination of Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book over time, focusing in particular on book history and publishing cultures of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries.” ~Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado, Boulder On Monday you read about Sei Shōnagon, a highly educated woman who felt the weight of
Five African American Women Pioneers in U.S. Finance (Mar 20, 2019)
“Garrett-Scott’s extensively researched and documented study is the first history of U.S. finance that puts African American women at the center. Banking on Freedom makes a tremendously monumental contribution to African American banking history, and it substantially enriches our understanding of U.S. finance and capitalism.” ~ Juliet E. K. Walker, author of The History of Black Business in
New Book Tuesday! The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard; Malebranche; Vice, Crime, and Poverty and More! (Mar 19, 2019)
Our list of new books is now available! The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard Profiles of Selected Distinguished Graduates of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Peter Wortsman Malebranche Theological Figure, Being 2 Alain Badiou. Translated by Jason E. Smith with Susan Spitzer. Introduction by Jason E. Smith. Vice, Crime, and Poverty

New Titles from Distributed Presses

The China-U.S. Trade War and Their Future Economic Relations
The Fly
A Year Without a Winter
The Damned
Doing Democracy Differently
Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth