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New Books in African American Studies

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Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)

65 hours 20 mins; February 23, 2024

Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)

48 mins; February 21, 2024

Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)

65 hours 54 mins; February 17, 2024

Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)

44 mins; February 12, 2024

Brian H. Williams, "The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)

37 mins; February 10, 2024

Jennifer Sdunzik, "The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration through Small-Town America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

42 mins; February 09, 2024

Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)

64 hours 57 mins; February 07, 2024

Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2023)

71 hours 46 mins; February 07, 2024

Steven High, "Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

67 hours 50 mins; February 07, 2024

Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)

74 hours 34 mins; February 05, 2024

Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell, "Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production" (Intellect, 2023)

61 hours 15 mins; February 04, 2024

George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

63 hours 11 mins; February 03, 2024

Marc Arsell Robinson, "Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest" (NYU Press, 2023)

86 hours 32 mins; February 02, 2024

Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education

60 hours 8 mins; February 01, 2024

The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)

47 mins; February 01, 2024

Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)

70 hours 8 mins; January 31, 2024

Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)

44 mins; January 30, 2024

Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie

49 mins; January 30, 2024

Damien Sojoyner, "Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice" (Fordham UP, 2023)

43 mins; January 28, 2024

Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

31 mins; January 26, 2024

Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)

75 hours 18 mins; January 24, 2024

Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)

58 mins; January 22, 2024

Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)

40 mins; January 21, 2024

Black and Queer on Campus

51 mins; January 18, 2024

Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

39 mins; January 18, 2024

Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

83 hours 50 mins; January 15, 2024

Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)

80 hours 9 mins; January 14, 2024

Emily Brooks, "Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City" (UNC Press, 2023)

68 hours 14 mins; January 13, 2024

Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)

30 mins; January 12, 2024

Darnise C. Martin, "Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church" (NYU Press, 2005)

48 mins; January 11, 2024

Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

57 mins; January 11, 2024

Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

46 mins; January 11, 2024

Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)

64 hours 27 mins; January 03, 2024

Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)

79 hours 16 mins; December 31, 2023

Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)

45 mins; December 30, 2023

Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

67 hours 15 mins; December 29, 2023

Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)

63 hours 56 mins; December 29, 2023

D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)

64 hours 59 mins; December 28, 2023

Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

41 mins; December 28, 2023

Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)

50 mins; December 27, 2023

Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)

62 hours 50 mins; December 26, 2023

Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)

62 hours 45 mins; December 26, 2023

Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)

66 hours 34 mins; December 25, 2023

Nessette Falu, "Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2023)

58 mins; December 24, 2023

Michelle J. Manno, "Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity" (NYU Press, 2023)

45 mins; December 23, 2023

Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

35 mins; December 21, 2023

Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

58 mins; December 18, 2023

Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)

32 mins; December 18, 2023

David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)

68 hours 10 mins; December 12, 2023

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy

45 mins; December 07, 2023

Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle

46 mins; December 07, 2023

Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)

49 mins; December 04, 2023

Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)

73 hours 57 mins; December 04, 2023

Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)

34 mins; December 03, 2023

Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

32 mins; December 02, 2023

Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)

54 mins; December 01, 2023

Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)

76 hours 2 mins; November 30, 2023

Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

64 hours 56 mins; November 28, 2023

Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)

67 hours 23 mins; November 25, 2023

Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

56 mins; November 24, 2023

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 35 mins; November 24, 2023

Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

44 mins; November 23, 2023

Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenomenology of Black Spirit" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

52 mins; November 22, 2023

Lama Rod Owens, "The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors" (Sounds True, 2023)

63 hours 38 mins; November 19, 2023

Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

48 mins; November 17, 2023

Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)

48 mins; November 14, 2023

Jeffrey Scholes, "Christianity, Race, and Sport" (Routledge, 2021)

32 mins; November 14, 2023

Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)

57 mins; November 13, 2023

Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)

51 mins; November 13, 2023

Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)

60 hours 12 mins; November 12, 2023

Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

81 hours 31 mins; November 11, 2023

Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)

82 hours 52 mins; November 10, 2023

Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)

36 mins; November 07, 2023

Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)

61 hours 0 mins; November 04, 2023

Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

70 hours 57 mins; November 01, 2023

Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

68 hours 35 mins; November 01, 2023

Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 29 mins; October 30, 2023

Frederick V. Engram, "Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

38 mins; October 30, 2023

Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

44 mins; October 29, 2023

James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)

40 mins; October 28, 2023

Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 19 mins; October 28, 2023

Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)

75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023

Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)

42 mins; October 25, 2023

Decolonizing Praxis

23 mins; October 23, 2023

Matthew Guariglia, "Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York" (Duke UP, 2023)

61 hours 15 mins; October 21, 2023

Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)

62 hours 27 mins; October 21, 2023

Philip Dray, "A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age" (FSG, 2022)

67 hours 9 mins; October 19, 2023

The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren

43 mins; October 18, 2023

Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)

55 mins; October 18, 2023

Katherine Jensen, "The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 18, 2023

Orisanmi Burton, "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" (U California Press, 2023)

52 mins; October 17, 2023

Nick Tabor, "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)

61 hours 18 mins; October 16, 2023

Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)

79 hours 33 mins; October 15, 2023

John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)

59 mins; October 15, 2023

Kristen Green, "The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail" (Seal Press, 2022)

64 hours 21 mins; October 14, 2023

Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

72 hours 43 mins; October 13, 2023

Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)

62 hours 45 mins; October 13, 2023

Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry, "Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)

50 mins; October 13, 2023

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)

42 mins; October 11, 2023

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)

66 hours 25 mins; October 10, 2023

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