{"product_id":"emmas-postcard-album-black-lives-in-the-early-twentieth-century-9781496843159","title":"Emma's Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBCALA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album--spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in \u003ci\u003eEmma's Postcard Album\u003c\/i\u003e--becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people \"to make a way from no way.\" As snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEmma's Postcard Album\u003c\/i\u003e, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings, a much-neglected aspect of scholarship. Through these techniques, a riveting world that is far too little known is revealed, and new insights are gained into the perspectives and experience of African Americans. Capping off these contributions, the text is a visual feast, illustrated with arresting images from the Golden Age of postcards as well as newspaper clippings and other archival material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFaith Mitchell \u003c\/b\u003eis a medical anthropologist whose career has bridged research, philanthropy, and social and health policy. In addition to numerous policy-related publications, she is author of \u003ci\u003eHoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Secrets, Part 1\u003c\/i\u003e. Mitchell is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. She and her husband live in Northern Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525840834834,"sku":"9781496843159","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d489e99f-2191-44f6-a09a-324099f94094.jpg?v=1731243810","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/emmas-postcard-album-black-lives-in-the-early-twentieth-century-9781496843159","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}