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    Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981 by Marisela R. Chávez

    Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

    To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins

    From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins’s study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators.

    Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about US by Christopher B. Patterson & Tara Fickle

    The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.

    Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised Edition by Marc Dollinger

    Highlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movement

    The Emily Winfree Fellowship for African and African American History in Virginia

    The Emily Winfree Fellowship for African and African American History in Virginia promotes the study of Black history in Virginia and provide access to the VMHC’s vast collections. many of which concentrate on the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Within these records, there is much information about the lives and contributions of African Americans. The Winfree Fellowship carries a stipend of $8,000 for a minimum of six weeks in residence at the VMHC. The deadline for applications is Friday, September 27, 2024. Learn more at VirginiaHistory.org/EmilyWinfreeFellowship.

    New Book – Otherworldly Mothering. The Maternal Grammar of Black Women’s Writing, 1970–1990 by Marika Ceschia (Louisiana State University Press, August 2024, ISBN 9780807182499)

    Otherworldly Mothering. The Maternal Grammar of Black Women’s Writing, 1970–1990 by Marika Ceschia (Louisiana State University Press, August 2024, ISBN 9780807182499)

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