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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

John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

47 mins; October 09, 2023

Sharon Patricia Holland, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life" (Duke UP, 2023)

69 hours 37 mins; October 07, 2023

Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)

98 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023

Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)

88 hours 49 mins; October 01, 2023

Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)

44 mins; September 30, 2023

Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)

47 mins; September 30, 2023

Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

74 hours 30 mins; September 28, 2023

Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)

52 mins; September 27, 2023

Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)

107 hours 31 mins; September 26, 2023

Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

64 hours 34 mins; September 26, 2023

Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)

63 hours 58 mins; September 25, 2023

Zebulon Vance Miletsky, "Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2022)

62 hours 5 mins; September 22, 2023

David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)

31 mins; September 21, 2023

Lipika Pelham, "Passing: An Alternative History of Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)

194 hours 7 mins; September 20, 2023

Kimberly Mack, "Living Colour's Time's Up" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

70 hours 26 mins; September 19, 2023

Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

41 mins; September 19, 2023

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)

48 mins; September 19, 2023

Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)

33 mins; September 15, 2023

Chris Molanphy, "Old Town Road" (Duke UP, 2023)

48 mins; September 15, 2023

Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)

79 hours 4 mins; September 14, 2023

Jonathan Daniel Wells, "The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War" (Bold Type Press, 2020)

62 hours 2 mins; September 14, 2023

William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)

37 mins; September 12, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South

53 mins; September 11, 2023

Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)

47 mins; September 11, 2023

Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)

86 hours 53 mins; September 11, 2023

Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

71 hours 23 mins; September 10, 2023

Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" (U California Press, 2022)

36 mins; September 10, 2023

Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)

63 hours 5 mins; September 09, 2023

Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)

60 hours 33 mins; September 05, 2023

Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)

33 mins; September 05, 2023

Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

89 hours 48 mins; September 03, 2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)

61 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2023

Ana Lucia Araujo, "Museums and Atlantic Slavery" (Routledge, 2021)

58 mins; August 29, 2023

David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)

69 hours 43 mins; August 28, 2023

Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)

110 hours 37 mins; August 27, 2023

Beverly C. Tomek, "Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania" (Temple UP, 2021)

89 hours 41 mins; August 27, 2023

Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)

108 hours 12 mins; August 27, 2023

Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

94 hours 29 mins; August 26, 2023

Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

29 mins; August 26, 2023

Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

45 mins; August 25, 2023

Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)

48 mins; August 25, 2023

Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

57 mins; August 25, 2023

Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

66 hours 6 mins; August 21, 2023

Becoming Justice Thomas

56 mins; August 20, 2023

Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, "Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

35 mins; August 18, 2023

Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)

35 mins; August 16, 2023

Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)

78 hours 27 mins; August 16, 2023

Jennifer Ritterhouse, "Discovering the South: One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s" (UNC Press, 2017)

63 hours 42 mins; August 16, 2023

Earl Cureton and Jake Uitti, "Earl the Twirl: My Life in Basketball" (McFarland, 2023)

89 hours 29 mins; August 15, 2023

Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

58 mins; August 13, 2023

Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)

28 mins; August 12, 2023

Donovan X. Ramsey, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era" (One World, 2023)

24 mins; August 12, 2023

Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

64 hours 57 mins; August 12, 2023

Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

63 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2023

Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile

40 mins; August 07, 2023

Tamara J. Walker, "Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad" (Crown, 2023)

78 hours 9 mins; August 04, 2023

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 04, 2023

Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)

56 mins; August 03, 2023

Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

43 mins; August 03, 2023

Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar

42 mins; August 01, 2023

Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)

45 mins; July 31, 2023

Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

39 mins; July 30, 2023

Marzia Milazzo, "Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

52 mins; July 29, 2023

Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)

75 hours 2 mins; July 29, 2023

Anthony Russell Jerry, "Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica" (UP of Florida, 2023)

47 mins; July 26, 2023

Jessica D. Klanderud, "Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh" (UNC Press, 2023)

62 hours 7 mins; July 17, 2023

African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert

56 mins; July 17, 2023

Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)

58 mins; July 17, 2023

Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

80 hours 7 mins; July 16, 2023

Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)

43 mins; July 16, 2023

Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)

44 mins; July 16, 2023

Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)

46 mins; July 15, 2023

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

30 mins; July 15, 2023

Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)

57 mins; July 11, 2023

Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; July 08, 2023

Katherine C. Mooney, "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey" (Yale UP, 2023)

83 hours 55 mins; July 02, 2023

Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)

56 mins; June 21, 2023

Down Deep in My Soul (with Fr. Maurice Nutt, C.Ss.R.)

49 mins; June 15, 2023

Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)

39 mins; June 12, 2023

Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)

89 hours 27 mins; June 10, 2023

Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)

37 mins; June 07, 2023

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

90 hours 34 mins; June 04, 2023

J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)

66 hours 13 mins; June 04, 2023

Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

52 mins; June 03, 2023

Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

46 mins; June 02, 2023

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, "Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds" (U Texas Press, 2023)

38 mins; May 30, 2023

Chris Campion and Bud Lee, "The War is Here: Newark 1967" (ZE Books, 2023)

43 mins; May 28, 2023

Ed Mitchell et al., "Ed Mitchell's Barbeque" (Ecco, 2023)

55 mins; May 26, 2023

Samantha Nogueira Joyce, "Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities" (Lexington Books, 2022)

76 hours 5 mins; May 22, 2023

Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

70 hours 42 mins; May 22, 2023

Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"

78 hours 25 mins; May 20, 2023

Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)

49 mins; May 18, 2023

Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)

42 mins; May 18, 2023

America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK

46 mins; May 16, 2023

Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

60 hours 44 mins; May 13, 2023

Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)

46 mins; May 13, 2023

Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)

75 hours 23 mins; May 13, 2023

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