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New Books in African American Studies
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Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
53 mins; August 26, 2022
Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
74 hours 16 mins; August 22, 2022
Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
59 mins; August 22, 2022
Jamil W. Drake, "To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk" (Oxford UP, 2022)
28 mins; August 22, 2022
Studying Black Religious Thought
44 mins; August 22, 2022
Antonio C. Cuyler, "Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US" (Routledge, 2020)
49 mins; August 18, 2022
His Sister, Her Monologue: A Discussion with Hilton Als
41 mins; August 17, 2022
Julius B. Fleming Jr., "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" (NYU Press, 2022)
37 mins; August 17, 2022
On W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk"
33 mins; August 16, 2022
Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
45 mins; August 16, 2022
On Frederick Douglass
29 mins; August 15, 2022
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
40 mins; August 12, 2022
Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022)
69 hours 27 mins; August 11, 2022
Writing Beyond a Limited Narrative: A Conversation with Hari Ziyad
55 mins; August 11, 2022
Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 11, 2022
On Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
37 mins; August 09, 2022
Miriam Thaggert, "Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
38 mins; August 08, 2022
Daniel T. Fleming, "Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day" (UNC Press, 2022)
48 mins; August 05, 2022
Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
58 mins; August 04, 2022
Victoria Reyes, "Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope" (Stanford UP, 2022)
71 hours 49 mins; August 04, 2022
Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz, "Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
41 mins; August 03, 2022
Will Jawando, "My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" (FSG, 2022)
52 mins; August 01, 2022
Peter H. Wood, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion" (Norton, 1996)
104 hours 30 mins; July 29, 2022
Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
66 hours 52 mins; July 29, 2022
Michael K. Beauchamp, "Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815" (LSU Press, 2021)
56 mins; July 27, 2022
Traci Parker, "Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s" (UNC Press, 2019)
33 mins; July 22, 2022
Darts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative Fiction
62 hours 19 mins; July 20, 2022
Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
43 mins; July 20, 2022
Thulani Davis, "The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
37 mins; July 19, 2022
Black Trans Feminism
16 mins; July 19, 2022
Xine Yao, "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America" (Duke UP, 2021)
37 mins; July 19, 2022
Victoria W. Wolcott, "Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
41 mins; July 18, 2022
Erin C. MacLeod, "Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2014)
50 mins; July 15, 2022
Anthony W. Wood, "Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
63 hours 16 mins; July 14, 2022
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, "Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; July 13, 2022
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
46 mins; July 12, 2022
Negro Literature
16 mins; July 11, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
54 mins; July 10, 2022
H. H. Leonards, "Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership" (R. H. Boyd, 2022)
34 mins; July 08, 2022
Xinling Li, "Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music: Black Gay Men Who Rap" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
62 hours 42 mins; July 06, 2022
Jessica Lipsky, "It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and the 21st-Century Soul Revolution" (Jawbone, 2021)
64 hours 34 mins; July 05, 2022
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
66 hours 44 mins; July 04, 2022
Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
50 mins; July 04, 2022
Stefanie K. Dunning, "Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
43 mins; July 01, 2022
Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
80 hours 17 mins; June 30, 2022
Holly A. Pinheiro Jr., "The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
49 mins; June 29, 2022
Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth" (Lyons Press, 2021)
47 mins; June 28, 2022
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
57 mins; June 27, 2022
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; June 23, 2022
Bianca C. Williams et al., "Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
77 hours 19 mins; June 23, 2022
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
73 hours 4 mins; June 23, 2022
Paul T. Murray, "Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed: Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice" (AAFH, 2022)
57 mins; June 20, 2022
Brandi Clay Brimmer, "Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South" (Duke UP, 2020)
45 mins; June 14, 2022
Louis M. Maraj, "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics" (Utah State UP, 2020)
68 hours 27 mins; June 14, 2022
Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation" (Grand Central, 2022)
47 mins; June 13, 2022
Sarah Deutsch, "Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
55 mins; June 13, 2022
Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
80 hours 48 mins; June 10, 2022
Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
70 hours 0 mins; June 10, 2022
Treva B. Lindsey, "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; June 09, 2022
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
57 mins; June 08, 2022
A Newly Discovered Essay by Fredrick Douglas: "Slavery" (1894-1895)
38 mins; June 07, 2022
Reighan Gillam, "Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
50 mins; June 07, 2022
Tajja Isen, "Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service" (Atria/One Signal, 2022)
35 mins; June 07, 2022
Andrea C. Mosterman, "Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; June 07, 2022
Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
71 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2022
Melissa Ford, "A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest During the Great Depression" (Southern Illinois UP, 2022)
52 mins; June 06, 2022
Irvin J. Hunt, "Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement" (UNC Press, 2022)
63 hours 33 mins; June 02, 2022
Richard Stamz and Patrick A. Roberts, "Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
56 mins; June 01, 2022
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
65 hours 9 mins; June 01, 2022
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
61 hours 40 mins; May 31, 2022
Brandon T. Jett, "Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South" (Louisiana State UP, 2021)
64 hours 8 mins; May 27, 2022
Jafari S. Allen, "There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
70 hours 16 mins; May 27, 2022
Sean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)
60 hours 12 mins; May 25, 2022
Elizabeth Rodrigues, "Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century Us Literatures" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
53 mins; May 17, 2022
On Women of Color in American Islam
61 hours 16 mins; May 16, 2022
Cynthia Parker-Ohene, "Daughters of Harriet: Poems" (UP of Colorado, 2022)
24 mins; May 13, 2022
Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
199 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2022
Paul M. Heideman, "Class Struggle and the Color Line: American Socialism and the Race Question 1900-1930" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
61 hours 46 mins; May 11, 2022
Glenda E. Gilmore, "Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South" (UNC Press, 2022)
72 hours 41 mins; May 10, 2022
Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
41 mins; May 10, 2022
Dhanveer Singh Brar, "Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century" (Goldsmiths Press, 2021)
69 hours 24 mins; May 06, 2022
OlĂșfáșč́mi O. TĂĄĂ­wĂČ, "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)" (Haymarket, 2022)
73 hours 30 mins; May 05, 2022
Aaron Cohen, "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
59 mins; May 04, 2022
The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
45 mins; May 03, 2022
Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
46 mins; April 28, 2022
Hurricanes
11 mins; April 28, 2022
Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)
61 hours 40 mins; April 28, 2022
Thomas Aiello, "Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
63 hours 7 mins; April 27, 2022
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
41 mins; April 26, 2022
Kristin Henning, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Pantheon Books, 2021)
65 hours 51 mins; April 25, 2022
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
35 mins; April 25, 2022
Nina M. Yancy, "How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; April 22, 2022
Joseph Darda, "The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism" (Stanford UP, 2022)
68 hours 4 mins; April 21, 2022
Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)
43 mins; April 19, 2022
Jennifer Delfino, "Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children" (Lexington Book, 2020)
58 mins; April 18, 2022
Kelly Bauer, "Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
52 mins; April 18, 2022
Caits Meissner, ed., "The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
65 hours 12 mins; April 14, 2022
Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
72 hours 1 min; April 12, 2022
Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
72 hours 32 mins; April 12, 2022
Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne PĂ©ralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
48 mins; April 11, 2022
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