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Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)

36 mins; May 08, 2023

Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)

39 mins; May 07, 2023

Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)

56 mins; May 05, 2023

Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)

66 hours 0 mins; May 04, 2023

Philip Ewell, "On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

59 mins; May 03, 2023

Evie Shockley, "Suddenly We" (Wesleyan UP, 2023)

75 hours 0 mins; May 01, 2023

Mauro Porto, "Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

55 mins; May 01, 2023

Charles Reagan Wilson, "The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South" (UNC Press, 2023)

73 hours 18 mins; April 29, 2023

Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)

35 mins; April 28, 2023

Paul R. Semendinger, "Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx" (Artemesia, 2023)

48 mins; April 26, 2023

Beth Bailey, "An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era" (UNC Press, 2023)

44 mins; April 25, 2023

Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)

48 mins; April 23, 2023

Rachel Anne Gillett, "At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)

62 hours 1 min; April 22, 2023

Thomas Aiello, "Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

36 mins; April 22, 2023

Keith Brian Wood, "Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)

72 hours 46 mins; April 21, 2023

Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)

44 mins; April 19, 2023

Nicholas Guyatt, "The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison" (Basic Books, 2022)

68 hours 13 mins; April 18, 2023

Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019)

56 mins; April 17, 2023

Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

60 hours 34 mins; April 16, 2023

Joshua Myers, "Of Black Study" (Pluto Press, 2022)

57 mins; April 15, 2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)

62 hours 46 mins; April 15, 2023

Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)

57 mins; April 14, 2023

Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)

68 hours 6 mins; April 12, 2023

Celeste Day Moore, "Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France" (Duke UP, 2021)

94 hours 15 mins; April 10, 2023

Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

46 mins; April 08, 2023

Mari N. Crabtree, "My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching" (Yale UP, 2023)

54 mins; April 08, 2023

Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)

96 hours 58 mins; April 07, 2023

Leah Mickens, "In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II" (NYU Press, 2022)

60 hours 19 mins; April 07, 2023

Charles Price, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)

58 mins; April 04, 2023

Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

63 hours 35 mins; April 03, 2023

Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)

50 mins; April 01, 2023

Geoff Harkness, "DVS Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas" (Columbia UP, 2023)

50 mins; March 30, 2023

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

65 hours 12 mins; March 27, 2023

David Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)

55 mins; March 26, 2023

Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

44 mins; March 23, 2023

Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, "Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936" (APS, 2022)

38 mins; March 22, 2023

Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance" (HarperOne, 2023)

71 hours 3 mins; March 21, 2023

Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

53 mins; March 21, 2023

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)

61 hours 51 mins; March 18, 2023

Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)

59 mins; March 17, 2023

R. J. M. Blackett, "Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle" (Yale UP, 2023)

61 hours 6 mins; March 15, 2023

Traveling Black, A Story of Race and Resistance: A Conversation with Mia Bay

52 mins; March 13, 2023

Damian Alan Pargas, "Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

72 hours 8 mins; March 13, 2023

Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

127 hours 3 mins; March 12, 2023

Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

32 mins; March 11, 2023

Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)

72 hours 2 mins; March 11, 2023

Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)

57 mins; March 11, 2023

Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period" (U The West Indies Press, 2019)

124 hours 34 mins; March 09, 2023

Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

69 hours 0 mins; March 06, 2023

Jovan Scott Lewis, "Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa" (Duke UP, 2022)

55 mins; March 05, 2023

Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)

44 mins; March 05, 2023

Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)

103 hours 36 mins; March 04, 2023

Thomas Aiello, "Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)

68 hours 24 mins; March 03, 2023

Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)

56 mins; March 03, 2023

Lerone A. Martin, "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2023)

40 mins; March 01, 2023

Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)

78 hours 42 mins; March 01, 2023

Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)

49 mins; March 01, 2023

Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)

96 hours 26 mins; February 28, 2023

Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)

61 hours 6 mins; February 28, 2023

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

80 hours 7 mins; February 27, 2023

Mitchell Schwarzer, "Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption" (U California Press, 2022)

77 hours 48 mins; February 26, 2023

Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

41 mins; February 26, 2023

Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

66 hours 54 mins; February 26, 2023

Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer, "Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest" ( U Washington Press, 2022)

60 hours 53 mins; February 24, 2023

Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)

54 mins; February 24, 2023

Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)

45 mins; February 24, 2023

Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)

100 hours 44 mins; February 21, 2023

Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

53 mins; February 19, 2023

Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)

61 hours 46 mins; February 19, 2023

Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)

49 mins; February 16, 2023

Lauron J. Kehrer, "Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

56 mins; February 14, 2023

Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)

54 mins; February 13, 2023

Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing" (Leuven UP, 2022)

53 mins; February 12, 2023

Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)

113 hours 22 mins; February 11, 2023

Hannah Noel, "Deflective Whiteness: Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

54 mins; February 10, 2023

Kate Masur, "Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction" (Norton, 2021)

50 mins; February 10, 2023

Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race

59 mins; February 09, 2023

Dianne M. Stewart, "Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage" (Seal Press, 2020)

65 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2023

Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

74 hours 43 mins; February 02, 2023

Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

62 hours 13 mins; February 02, 2023

Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)

78 hours 1 min; February 01, 2023

J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)

76 hours 45 mins; January 31, 2023

Above the Veil: Beyond Segregationism and Assimilationism

37 mins; January 29, 2023

Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)

55 mins; January 28, 2023

Shaun M. Anderson, "The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age Of #BlackLivesMatter" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

83 hours 14 mins; January 27, 2023

Stephen C. Finley, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" (Duke UP, 2022)

66 hours 3 mins; January 27, 2023

Viola Franziska Müller, "Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South" (UNC Press, 2022)

75 hours 48 mins; January 20, 2023

Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)

92 hours 37 mins; January 19, 2023

We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience

59 mins; January 18, 2023

Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; January 17, 2023

The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States

83 hours 46 mins; January 16, 2023

Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

67 hours 32 mins; January 16, 2023

Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)

59 mins; January 14, 2023

Miguel Valerio, "Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

41 mins; January 14, 2023

Seeing Truth in the Speculative: A Conversation with Dexter Gabriel

48 mins; January 12, 2023

Christopher Loperena, "The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras" (Stanford UP, 2022)

60 hours 58 mins; January 09, 2023

Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

89 hours 1 min; January 08, 2023

Jonathan W. White, "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln" (UNC Press, 2021)

43 mins; January 08, 2023

White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?

14 mins; January 06, 2023

Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

87 hours 2 mins; January 06, 2023

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