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New Books in African American Studies
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Richard Brent Turner, "Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism" (NYU Press, 2021)
69 hours 53 mins; April 08, 2022
Afropessimism
12 mins; April 08, 2022
Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
66 hours 38 mins; April 07, 2022
Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)
47 mins; April 07, 2022
Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)
47 mins; April 07, 2022
Shawn Michael Austin, "Colonial Kinship: GuaranĂ­, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
108 hours 1 min; April 07, 2022
David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
54 mins; April 06, 2022
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
48 mins; April 05, 2022
Hilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)
68 hours 18 mins; April 05, 2022
Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U of Illinois Press, 2021)
89 hours 12 mins; April 05, 2022
Mark Newman, "Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
45 mins; April 01, 2022
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, "Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific" (Duke UP, 2021)
109 hours 16 mins; March 30, 2022
Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)
52 mins; March 30, 2022
Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
74 hours 5 mins; March 29, 2022
Francesca Morgan, "A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History" (UNC Press, 2021)
81 hours 14 mins; March 25, 2022
Elisabeth Ceppi, "Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
82 hours 12 mins; March 24, 2022
Tia Brown McNair, "From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education" (Jossey-Bass, 2020)
40 mins; March 24, 2022
Leslie T. Grover, "The Benefits of Eating White Folks" (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022)
48 mins; March 22, 2022
John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
47 mins; March 21, 2022
Carole Emberton, "To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" (Norton, 2022)
48 mins; March 17, 2022
K. Stephen Prince, "The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot Of 1900" (UNC Press, 2021)
73 hours 55 mins; March 17, 2022
E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
70 hours 37 mins; March 17, 2022
Brian J. Peterson, "Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)
71 hours 33 mins; March 17, 2022
Tessa Murphy, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
88 hours 56 mins; March 16, 2022
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
32 mins; March 15, 2022
Daniel R. Bare, "Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era" (NYU Press, 2021)
65 hours 6 mins; March 11, 2022
Randall Horton, "Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
60 hours 57 mins; March 10, 2022
Joshua Myers, "Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition" (Polity, 2021)
161 hours 33 mins; March 09, 2022
Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
61 hours 58 mins; March 08, 2022
Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
64 hours 44 mins; March 04, 2022
Myisha Cherry, "The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 12 mins; March 01, 2022
William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
92 hours 48 mins; February 24, 2022
Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield, "Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
57 mins; February 24, 2022
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
57 mins; February 22, 2022
Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)
63 hours 37 mins; February 22, 2022
Kyle T. Mays, "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2021)
38 mins; February 18, 2022
75* Sean Hill Talks about Bodies in Space and Time with Elizabeth Bradfield
39 mins; February 17, 2022
David Alston, "Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
64 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2022
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
57 mins; February 15, 2022
Kurt Edward Kemper, "Before March Madness: The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
70 hours 57 mins; February 14, 2022
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
52 mins; February 14, 2022
Rachel Pagones, "Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love" (Brevis, 2021)
51 mins; February 14, 2022
Eric Herschthal, "The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress" (Yale UP, 2021)
70 hours 16 mins; February 11, 2022
Jonathan W. White, "A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
36 mins; February 10, 2022
Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; February 09, 2022
Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts, "Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
63 hours 40 mins; February 08, 2022
Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
35 mins; February 07, 2022
I'm Possible: A Conversation with Tuba Professor Dr. Richard White
62 hours 9 mins; February 03, 2022
Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; February 02, 2022
Lyndsey Ellis, "Bone Broth" (Hidden Timber Books, 2021)
24 mins; February 01, 2022
Keith Wailoo, "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
56 mins; January 31, 2022
Kerry L. Haynie et al., "Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach" (Oxford UP, 2020)
75 hours 34 mins; January 31, 2022
Tyler D. Parry, "Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual" (UNC Press, 2020)
118 hours 56 mins; January 28, 2022
Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
61 hours 21 mins; January 21, 2022
Kristin Waters, "Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)
27 mins; January 21, 2022
72 Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan
49 mins; January 20, 2022
Terri Givens, "Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides" (Policy Press, 2021)
71 hours 45 mins; January 19, 2022
Marion Thompson, "The Marion Thompson Wright Reader" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
50 mins; January 18, 2022
Mercy Romero, "Toward Camden" (Duke UP, 2021)
37 mins; January 17, 2022
Suzanne Cope, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)
70 hours 47 mins; January 17, 2022
Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
61 hours 0 mins; January 13, 2022
Michael Muhammad Knight, "Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
65 hours 24 mins; January 05, 2022
Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
43 mins; January 05, 2022
Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
70 hours 3 mins; January 04, 2022
Sarah J. Purcell, "Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2022)
56 mins; January 03, 2022
Winfrey Harris, "The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
38 mins; December 24, 2021
Mary Talusan, "Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
64 hours 52 mins; December 20, 2021
Warren E. Milteer, Jr., "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" (UNC Press, 2021)
58 mins; December 20, 2021
Samantha Seeley, "Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)
40 mins; December 16, 2021
Shamira Gelbman, "The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction" (Temple UP, 2021)
50 mins; December 16, 2021
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; December 15, 2021
Elizabeth McHenry, "To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship" (Duke UP, 2020)
65 hours 16 mins; December 15, 2021
Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
47 mins; December 15, 2021
Adam Hilton, "True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
56 mins; December 15, 2021
Cassandra Lane, "We Are Bridges: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
79 hours 54 mins; December 13, 2021
Bryant Terry, "Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora" (4 Color Books, 2021)
70 hours 35 mins; December 13, 2021
Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
80 hours 22 mins; December 13, 2021
Mia Bay, "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
61 hours 33 mins; December 09, 2021
Britt Rusert, "Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture" (NYU Press, 2017)
68 hours 37 mins; December 09, 2021
Edward J. Ayers, "Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020" (LSU Press, 2020)
72 hours 5 mins; December 08, 2021
Dave Zirin, "The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World" (New Press, 2021)
50 mins; December 08, 2021
Shoutin’ In the Fire: A Conversation with Graduate Student Dante Stewart
64 hours 22 mins; December 07, 2021
Karla FC Holloway, "Gone Missing in Harlem: A Novel" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
31 mins; December 07, 2021
Joseph C. Ewoodzie, "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South" (Princeton UP, 2021)
54 mins; December 01, 2021
Crystal Webster, "Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North" (UNC Press, 2021)
109 hours 48 mins; November 30, 2021
Peter Cole, "Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly" (PM Press, 2021)
96 hours 0 mins; November 30, 2021
Kevin Bruyneel, "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)
53 mins; November 29, 2021
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
89 hours 27 mins; November 26, 2021
Robin J. Hayes, "Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground" (U Washington Press, 2021)
70 hours 47 mins; November 26, 2021
Steven P. Brown, "Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
38 mins; November 23, 2021
Jasmine Mitchell, "Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
41 mins; November 22, 2021
James G. Cantres, "Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
79 hours 10 mins; November 17, 2021
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021)
55 mins; November 15, 2021
Efrén O. Pérez, "Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
53 mins; November 11, 2021
David Lester, "Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2021)
56 mins; November 10, 2021
Rachel Afi Quinn, "Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
56 mins; November 10, 2021
Alaina E. Roberts, "I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
59 mins; November 09, 2021
Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)
67 hours 33 mins; November 05, 2021
Jovan Scott Lewis, "Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
58 mins; November 05, 2021
Habiba Ibrahim, "Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2021)
70 hours 32 mins; November 03, 2021
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