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Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
49 mins; January 03, 2023
Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
64 hours 39 mins; January 01, 2023
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
72 hours 2 mins; December 30, 2022
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
94 hours 2 mins; December 29, 2022
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
91 hours 43 mins; December 28, 2022
Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
44 mins; December 25, 2022
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)
55 mins; December 25, 2022
Michael Ayers Trotti, "The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
63 hours 56 mins; December 23, 2022
Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)
55 mins; December 21, 2022
Craig Seymour, "Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross" (2017)
69 hours 4 mins; December 21, 2022
Lyzette Wanzer, "Trauma, Tresses, and Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
19 mins; December 21, 2022
Quito J. Swan, "Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World" (NYU Press, 2022)
98 hours 43 mins; December 20, 2022
Matthew F. Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
43 mins; December 18, 2022
Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
61 hours 11 mins; December 18, 2022
Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
84 hours 37 mins; December 16, 2022
Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
43 mins; December 14, 2022
Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
65 hours 24 mins; December 08, 2022
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
45 mins; December 07, 2022
Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
56 mins; December 07, 2022
Barbara Harris Combs, "Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
70 hours 14 mins; December 06, 2022
On James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"
43 mins; December 05, 2022
Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
107 hours 47 mins; November 29, 2022
Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
65 hours 38 mins; November 29, 2022
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
52 mins; November 25, 2022
Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
57 mins; November 25, 2022
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, "New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair" (Duke UP, 2022)
24 mins; November 25, 2022
Marquis Bey, "Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender" (Duke UP, 2022)
49 mins; November 24, 2022
Ray Scott, "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach" (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
74 hours 14 mins; November 24, 2022
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
52 mins; November 24, 2022
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
62 hours 30 mins; November 23, 2022
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2021)
72 hours 35 mins; November 23, 2022
Rhonda F. Levine, "When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City" (Routledge, 2019)
59 mins; November 23, 2022
Caroline Grego, "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South" (UNC Press, 2022)
67 hours 6 mins; November 22, 2022
Paul Barba, "Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
61 hours 28 mins; November 22, 2022
Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
57 mins; November 21, 2022
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
32 mins; November 21, 2022
Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
69 hours 9 mins; November 17, 2022
R. Isabela Morales, "Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2022)
49 mins; November 15, 2022
Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
36 mins; November 15, 2022
Therí Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)
63 hours 14 mins; November 14, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
63 hours 33 mins; November 11, 2022
Muggsy Bogues and Jake Uitti, "Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball" (Triumph, 2022)
54 mins; November 10, 2022
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 47 mins; November 10, 2022
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
39 mins; November 09, 2022
On Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
28 mins; November 09, 2022
Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
49 mins; November 07, 2022
Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
75 hours 0 mins; November 07, 2022
Guthrie P. Ramsey, "Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present" (U California Press, 2022)
46 mins; November 07, 2022
Christopher Stuart Taylor, "Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians" (Fernwood, 2016)
75 hours 14 mins; November 04, 2022
4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay
49 mins; November 03, 2022
Jeremi Suri, "Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
57 mins; November 02, 2022
Matthew Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
41 mins; November 02, 2022
Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
56 mins; November 01, 2022
Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 01, 2022
Sam W. Haynes, "Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas" (Basic Books, 2022)
74 hours 52 mins; October 31, 2022
Mario Nisbett, "The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty" (Lexington Books, 2021)
57 mins; October 28, 2022
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2022
Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
43 mins; October 26, 2022
Guy Lancaster, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" (U Arkansas Press, 2021)
39 mins; October 26, 2022
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
51 mins; October 26, 2022
Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
62 hours 55 mins; October 26, 2022
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
39 mins; October 25, 2022
Dan Immergluck, "Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta" (U California Press, 2022)
36 mins; October 25, 2022
Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)
58 mins; October 24, 2022
On Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
32 mins; October 21, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
72 hours 24 mins; October 21, 2022
Patricia A. Turner, "Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2022)
36 mins; October 18, 2022
David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
63 hours 24 mins; October 18, 2022
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
65 hours 22 mins; October 17, 2022
Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; October 14, 2022
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
50 mins; October 13, 2022
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 12, 2022
Anima Adjepong, "Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra" (UNC Press, 2021)
57 mins; October 11, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
46 mins; October 07, 2022
Emerald Garner, "Finding My Voice" (Haymarket, 2022)
24 mins; October 07, 2022
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
58 mins; October 05, 2022
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 9 mins; October 04, 2022
On Trafficking Hadassah and Book of Esther
61 hours 10 mins; October 04, 2022
NBN Classic: Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
56 mins; October 02, 2022
NBN Classic: Anne Balay, "Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers" (UNC Press, 2018)
56 mins; October 02, 2022
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)
45 mins; September 28, 2022
NBN Classic: Garrett Felber, "Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State" (UNC Press, 2020)
57 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman" (37 Ink, 2019)
38 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" (Liveright, 2020)
70 hours 33 mins; September 24, 2022
NBN Classic: Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History" (Duke UP, 2019)
56 mins; September 24, 2022
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; September 23, 2022
Charles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
40 mins; September 22, 2022
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
39 mins; September 20, 2022
Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy" (Stanford UP, 2022)
94 hours 15 mins; September 19, 2022
Kaysha Corinealdi, "Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2022)
66 hours 2 mins; September 19, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
35 mins; September 16, 2022
Derek H. Alderman et al., "Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
54 mins; September 13, 2022
Jodi Skipper, "Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
52 mins; September 09, 2022
Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
54 mins; September 08, 2022
Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
95 hours 18 mins; September 05, 2022
Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
142 hours 11 mins; September 02, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
43 mins; September 01, 2022
Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
40 mins; August 31, 2022
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
126 hours 21 mins; August 31, 2022
E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
58 mins; August 30, 2022
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