A Companion to African-American Studies to be featured as NetLibrary’s eBook of the Month for February

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 24 January, 2006— In celebration of African-American History Month, NetLibrary has partnered with Blackwell Publishing to offer A Companion to African-American Studies as the February eBook of the Month. A groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of African-American studies, the Companion includes original essays by expert scholars in the field and covers each topic with authority and clarity.

Edited by Lewis Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon, A Companion to African-American Studies is a definitive intervention at a critical time in the history of race relations and in the academic field of race and ethnic studies. Bringing together a dazzling array of established and emergent voices, the Companion opens with a series of reflections from those who waged pitched battles to establish African-American studies as a bona fide academic discipline and captures the dynamic interaction of African American studies with other fields of inquiry. Students and scholars of the field will find this to be an exciting and comprehensive overview, and an ideal resource for study and further research.

A Companion to African-American Studies is part of the highly-regarded Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies series. This series aims to provide theoretically ambitious but accessible volumes devoted to the major fields and subfields within Cultural Studies, whether as single disciplines (film studies) inspired and reconfigured by interventionist Cultural Studies approaches, or from broad interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives (gender studies, race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies). Each volume sets out to ground and orientate the student through a broad range of specially-commissioned articles and also to provide the more experienced scholar and teacher with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest trends and critical directions.

Provided through the generous support of Blackwell Publishing, A Companion to African-American Studies will be available through more than 14,000 participating libraries February 1-28. To help libraries promote the February eBook of the Month, NetLibrary has developed a tool kit of free promotional resources that includes print-on-demand bookmarks, a sample press release, and electronic support materials. More information is available at:

http://www.netlibrary.com/Librarian/ToolsAndResources/eBookOfTheMonth.aspx

NetLibrary will also offer a 10% discount for libraries that purchase A Companion to African-American Studies before February 28, 2007. Orders can be placed on TitleSelect, NetLibrary’s Collection Development catalog at www.netlibrary.com/titleselect. For complete details, contact an OCLC representative at 1-800-898-OCLC, or e-mail libservices@oclc.org.