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New Books in African American Studies
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Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
54 mins; February 23, 2025
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
72 hours 17 mins; February 20, 2025
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
57 mins; February 19, 2025
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
47 mins; February 18, 2025
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
38 mins; February 17, 2025
The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman
45 mins; February 17, 2025
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
72 hours 17 mins; February 13, 2025
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
64 hours 2 mins; February 10, 2025
Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
63 hours 31 mins; February 07, 2025
Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)
53 mins; February 06, 2025
Gloria Blizzard, "Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
29 mins; February 02, 2025
Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)
41 mins; January 30, 2025
Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
43 mins; January 27, 2025
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
44 mins; January 24, 2025
Leonne M. Hudson, "Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (Southern Illinois UP, 2024)
75 hours 34 mins; January 24, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
69 hours 25 mins; January 23, 2025
Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
72 hours 32 mins; January 22, 2025
Anthony Walton, "The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation" (David R. Godine, 2024)
54 mins; January 15, 2025
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 15, 2025
Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
46 mins; January 13, 2025
Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
54 mins; January 12, 2025
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
44 mins; January 07, 2025
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
58 mins; January 07, 2025
Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
49 mins; January 04, 2025
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
83 hours 10 mins; January 02, 2025
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
72 hours 37 mins; January 02, 2025
Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)
47 mins; January 01, 2025
In Conversation: The Antinomies of Afropessimism
63 hours 30 mins; January 01, 2025
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
93 hours 12 mins; January 01, 2025
Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
67 hours 25 mins; December 31, 2024
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
38 mins; December 31, 2024
Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)
38 mins; December 30, 2024
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
90 hours 2 mins; December 29, 2024
In Conversation: Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
54 mins; December 25, 2024
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 25, 2024
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
69 hours 57 mins; December 24, 2024
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
78 hours 2 mins; December 24, 2024
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
43 mins; December 20, 2024
Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 17, 2024
Brian Martin, "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War" (ECW Press, 2022)
40 mins; December 16, 2024
Leslie Beth Ribovich, "Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools" (NYU Press, 2024)
59 mins; December 13, 2024
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
74 hours 23 mins; December 12, 2024
Aisha M Beliso-de JesĂşs, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)
56 mins; December 10, 2024
Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; December 07, 2024
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
78 hours 52 mins; December 05, 2024
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
80 hours 14 mins; December 04, 2024
Too Black and Rasul A. Mowatt, "Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits" (Routledge, 2024)
106 hours 52 mins; November 29, 2024
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
72 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2024
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 27, 2024
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; November 26, 2024
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; November 24, 2024
Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
54 mins; November 22, 2024
Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
37 mins; November 21, 2024
Debra Bruno, "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (Cornell UP, 2024)
40 mins; November 21, 2024
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
37 mins; November 20, 2024
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 19, 2024
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
67 hours 44 mins; November 19, 2024
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 19, 2024
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
63 hours 30 mins; November 18, 2024
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
119 hours 32 mins; November 18, 2024
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
42 mins; November 17, 2024
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
58 mins; November 16, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
55 mins; November 14, 2024
Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)
64 hours 57 mins; November 09, 2024
Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
57 mins; November 06, 2024
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
31 mins; November 03, 2024
Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
42 mins; November 03, 2024
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
70 hours 5 mins; October 27, 2024
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 27, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History, Volume 2" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; October 22, 2024
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
70 hours 55 mins; October 19, 2024
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 18, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
41 mins; October 16, 2024
Boris Adjemian, "The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
70 hours 44 mins; October 12, 2024
Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
36 mins; October 08, 2024
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
58 mins; October 07, 2024
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
59 mins; October 03, 2024
Camille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 03, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
58 mins; September 30, 2024
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; September 25, 2024
Wayne A. Wiegand, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
29 mins; September 23, 2024
Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
86 hours 8 mins; September 21, 2024
Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)
45 mins; September 21, 2024
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 20, 2024
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
55 mins; September 19, 2024
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
37 mins; September 15, 2024
Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)
98 hours 18 mins; September 13, 2024
Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)
63 hours 19 mins; September 08, 2024
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
44 mins; September 07, 2024
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
68 hours 39 mins; September 07, 2024
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
60 hours 29 mins; September 06, 2024
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
45 mins; September 03, 2024
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
79 hours 2 mins; September 03, 2024
Tadashi Dozono, "Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
31 mins; August 31, 2024
Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
76 hours 0 mins; August 23, 2024
Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
66 hours 11 mins; August 22, 2024
Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022)
51 mins; August 20, 2024
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)
52 mins; August 17, 2024
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
39 mins; August 15, 2024
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
55 mins; August 14, 2024
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