New Books in African American Studies
By New Books Network
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by New Books Network
Category: Society & Culture
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 115
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 600
Description
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.
Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com
Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
|
Oct 08, 2026 |
|
Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children with Stacey Patton (Beacon Press, 2026)
|
Oct 06, 2026 |
|
Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2026)
|
Oct 03, 2026 |
|
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing with Rahim Kurwa (U California Press, 2025)
|
Oct 02, 2026 |
|
Let the Oppressed Go Free: Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America with Nicholas P. Wood (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
|
Oct 01, 2026 |
|
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain
|
Sep 29, 2026 |
|
Apocalyptic Abolitionism: How Millennialists Helped Abolish Slavery and Reform America with Kevin M. Burton (NYU Press, 2026)
|
Sep 27, 2026 |
|
Tess Chakkalakal, "A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
|
Sep 23, 2026 |
|
Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
|
Sep 22, 2026 |
|
Bryant Simon, "For Customers Only: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
|
Sep 17, 2026 |
|
Justin Ellen, "Better Than Grandma's: Comfort Desserts We Grew Up Loving" (Rolling Pin Press, 2026)
|
Sep 15, 2026 |
|
Samantha Barbas, "Hate Speech: The Legal and Cultural History of an American Dilemma" (U California Press, 2026)
|
Sep 15, 2026 |
|
Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026)
|
Sep 15, 2026 |
|
R. Douglas Hurt, "The Country People: An Agricultural History of the American Revolution" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
|
Sep 14, 2026 |
|
Christopher Freeburg, "Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life" (Yale UP, 2026)
|
Sep 11, 2026 |
|
Patrick Griffin, "The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World" (Yale UP, 2023)
|
Sep 10, 2026 |
|
Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North " (FSG, 2025)
|
Sep 09, 2026 |
|
Lucas L. Johnson II, "Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
|
Sep 08, 2026 |
|
Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
|
Sep 04, 2026 |
|
Kamau Ware, "Battle in the Margins: Black Experiences in New York City During the American Revolution" (Black Gotham Experience)
|
Sep 01, 2026 |
|
Bernadette Ludwig, "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
|
Aug 29, 2026 |
|
Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
|
Aug 29, 2026 |
|
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" (HarperCollins, 2021)
|
Aug 25, 2026 |
|
Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
|
Aug 21, 2026 |
|
Nancy Folbre, "Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First" (U California Press, 2026)
|
Aug 19, 2026 |
|
Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" (Henry Holt & Co.)
|
Aug 18, 2026 |
|
Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America" (Cornell UP, 2025)
|
Aug 17, 2026 |
|
Jarvis C. McInnis, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (Columbia UP, 2025)
|
Aug 12, 2026 |
|
Christopher R. Rogers, "My City Need Something" (Common Notions, 2026)
|
Aug 11, 2026 |
|
David N. Gellman, "Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York" (Cornell UP, 2022)
|
Aug 10, 2026 |
|
Edlie Wong, "Empire, Race, and Print Culture in the Black Pacific" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
|
Aug 07, 2026 |
|
Blair L.M. Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
|
Aug 04, 2026 |
|
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026)
|
Aug 03, 2026 |
|
Virginia McGee Richards, "The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway" (MIT Press, 2026)
|
Aug 01, 2026 |
|
Grégory Pierrot, "Fantômes de la révolution noire: Une histoire culturelle transatlantique" (Ròt-Bò-Krik, 2026)
|
Jul 24, 2026 |
|
Maria Pinto, "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival" (UNC Press, 2026)
|
Jul 21, 2026 |
|
Khiara Bridges, "Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans" (MIT Press, 2026)
|
Jul 19, 2026 |
|
Gayle F. Wald, "This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
|
Jul 15, 2026 |
|
Peter C. Mancall, "Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680" (Oxford UP, 2026)
|
Jul 11, 2026 |
|
Cécile Bishop, "Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World" (Duke UP, 2026)
|
Jul 11, 2026 |
|
Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America" (Norton, 2026)
|
Jul 07, 2026 |
|
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies
|
Jul 07, 2026 |
|
Stephen Robertson, "Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935" (Stanford UP, 2024)
|
Jul 06, 2026 |
|
Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
|
Jul 02, 2026 |
|
A.D. Carson, "Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
|
Jul 02, 2026 |
|
Sharron Wilkins Conrad, "The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory" (UNC Press, 2026)
|
Jun 27, 2026 |
|
Introducing Periodically: A UC Press Journals Podcast with Journals Director David Famiano
|
Jun 25, 2026 |
|
Where Harlem Rests at the Woodlawn Cemetery
|
Jun 23, 2026 |
|
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade" (Yale UP, 2025)
|
Jun 21, 2026 |
|
Youssef J. Carter, "The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path" (UNC Press, 2026)
|
Jun 19, 2026 |
|
Blair LM Kelley, "Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days" (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026)
|
Jun 19, 2026 |
|
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
|
Jun 18, 2026 |
|
Joe P. L. Davidson, "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" (MIT Press, 2026)
|
Jun 17, 2026 |
|
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
|
Jun 16, 2026 |
|
Stephanie Coontz, "For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage" (Viking, 2026)
|
Jun 14, 2026 |
|
Javier Arbona-Homar, "Explosivity: Following What Remains" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
|
Jun 08, 2026 |
|
Bruce Dearstyne, "Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change" (SUNY Press, 2026)
|
Jun 08, 2026 |
|
Terese Mason Pierre, "As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories" (Spiderline, 2025)
|
Jun 08, 2026 |
|
Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026)
|
Jun 06, 2026 |
|
David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)
|
Jun 04, 2026 |
|
Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)
|
Jun 04, 2026 |
|
On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship
|
Jun 02, 2026 |
|
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)
|
Jun 02, 2026 |
|
Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
|
May 30, 2026 |
|
Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)
|
May 30, 2026 |
|
Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
|
May 29, 2026 |
|
Robin R. Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
May 29, 2026 |
|
The Instigators
|
May 28, 2026 |
|
Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)
|
May 28, 2026 |
|
David Faflik, "Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
|
May 27, 2026 |
|
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
|
May 25, 2026 |
|
Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)
|
May 24, 2026 |
|
Mary T. Freeman, "Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
|
May 23, 2026 |
|
James O'Neil Spady, "Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair" (UNC Press, 2026)
|
May 23, 2026 |
|
Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)
|
May 22, 2026 |
|
Steven W. Thrasher, "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" (Amistad, 2026)
|
May 19, 2026 |
|
Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)
|
May 18, 2026 |
|
Justin Randolph, "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside (UNC Press, 2026)
|
May 17, 2026 |
|
Fabio Rojas, "From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline" (JHU Press, 2010)
|
May 13, 2026 |
|
Es-pranza Humphrey, "Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen" (Poster House Museum, 2026)
|
May 12, 2026 |
|
Wil Haygood, "The War within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home" (Knopf, 2026)
|
May 12, 2026 |
|
Samiha Rahman, "Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care" (NYU Press, 2026)
|
May 11, 2026 |
|
Terror, Hope, & Exodus: The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman
|
May 09, 2026 |
|
Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia
|
May 07, 2026 |
|
Lerone Martin, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr." (Amistad, 2026)
|
May 05, 2026 |
|
Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod, "Rustin's Challenge" (2026)
|
May 04, 2026 |
|
Alice Echols, "Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic" (Oxford UP, 2026)
|
May 03, 2026 |
|
Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
|
May 01, 2026 |
|
The Lost World of African American Cantors 1915–1953
|
Apr 28, 2026 |
|
Emely Rumble, "Bibliotherapy in The Bronx" (Row House, 2025)
|
Apr 18, 2026 |
|
Rawlston Williams, "The Caribbean Cookbook" (Phaidon Press, 2026)
|
Apr 15, 2026 |
|
Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
|
Apr 14, 2026 |
|
Cedric de Leon, "Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity" (U California Press, 2025)
|
Apr 09, 2026 |
|
Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World" (Brill, 2026)
|
Apr 08, 2026 |
|
Danielle Bainbridge, "Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive" (NYU Press, 2026)
|
Apr 03, 2026 |
|
Tyesha Maddox, "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
|
Mar 31, 2026 |
|
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson
|
Mar 27, 2026 |
|
Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
|
Mar 24, 2026 |
|
Prolepsis
|
Mar 23, 2026 |
|
Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)
|
Mar 23, 2026 |
|
Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
|
Mar 18, 2026 |
|
Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Mar 16, 2026 |
|
Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" (Viking, 2026)
|
Mar 15, 2026 |
|
Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
|
Mar 13, 2026 |
|
Austin McCoy, "Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made" (Atria/One Signal, 2026)
|
Mar 12, 2026 |
|
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)
|
Mar 11, 2026 |
|
Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)
|
Mar 11, 2026 |
|
Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)
|
Mar 10, 2026 |
|
Danielle Wiggins, "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
|
Mar 08, 2026 |
|
Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán, "Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Mar 03, 2026 |
|
Clarissa E. Francis, "Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement" (Routledge, 2025)
|
Feb 28, 2026 |
|
Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)
|
Feb 27, 2026 |
|
Stephen Stacks, "The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
|
Feb 24, 2026 |
|
John Drabinski, "So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
|
Feb 18, 2026 |
|
Brian Hallstoos, "Sol Butler: An Olympian's Odyssey through Jim Crow America" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
|
Feb 17, 2026 |
|
Cassandra Shepard, "Settler Colonialism is the Disaster: A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
|
Feb 15, 2026 |
|
Heather Ann Thompson, "Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage" (Pantheon, 2026)
|
Feb 12, 2026 |
|
Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story" (FSG, 2025)
|
Feb 10, 2026 |
|
Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
|
Feb 10, 2026 |
|
Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026) Revisited
|
Feb 08, 2026 |
|
Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Feb 07, 2026 |
|
Garrett Felber, "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" (AK Press, 2025)
|
Feb 06, 2026 |
|
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
|
Feb 04, 2026 |
|
The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao
|
Feb 01, 2026 |
|
Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Feb 01, 2026 |
|
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
|
Jan 31, 2026 |
|
Justin L. Mann, "Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation" (Duke UP, 2026)
|
Jan 29, 2026 |
|
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
|
Jan 29, 2026 |
|
Mark Anthony Neal, "New Black Man" (Routledge, 2015)
|
Jan 28, 2026 |
|
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Jan 27, 2026 |
|
Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)
|
Jan 25, 2026 |
|
Terence Keel, "The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence" (Beacon Press, 2025)
|
Jan 23, 2026 |
|
Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
|
Jan 20, 2026 |
|
O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, "We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
|
Jan 20, 2026 |
|
Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
|
Jan 19, 2026 |
|
Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
|
Jan 17, 2026 |
|
Johanna Lukate, "(Dis)Entangled: Black Hair, Race, and Identity" (Coronet, 2025)
|
Jan 16, 2026 |
|
Brian Martin, "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War" (ECW Press, 2022)
|
Jan 12, 2026 |
|
Chris Boucher, "Harry "Bucky" Lew: A Biography of the First Black Professional Basketball Player" (McFarland, 2026)
|
Jan 11, 2026 |
|
John Samuel Harpham, "Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2025)
|
Jan 11, 2026 |
|
Kendra D. Boyd, "Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
|
Jan 10, 2026 |
|
Sonya Lea, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)
|
Jan 09, 2026 |
|
Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2024)
|
Jan 08, 2026 |
|
W. Ralph Eubanks, "When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land" (Beacon Press, 2026)
|
Jan 07, 2026 |
|
Robert D. Bland, "Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation" (UNC Press, 2026)
|
Jan 05, 2026 |
|
Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Jan 03, 2026 |
|
Andrew S. Curran, "Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson" (Other Press, 2026)
|
Jan 02, 2026 |
|
Nicholas L. Caverly, "Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
|
Dec 26, 2025 |
|
Trymaine Lee, "A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America" (St. Martins, 2025)
|
Dec 25, 2025 |
|
Brittany Michelle Friedman, "Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons" (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Dec 24, 2025 |
|
Karma F. Frierson, "Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz" (U California Press, 2025)
|
Dec 23, 2025 |
|
Jamila Cupid and Myescha Joell, "Who's in the Room? A Guide to Public Relations from the Black Professional Perspective" (Kendall Hunt, 2025)
|
Dec 20, 2025 |
|
Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
|
Dec 16, 2025 |
|
Joseph L Graves, "Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
|
Dec 14, 2025 |
|
Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)
|
Dec 11, 2025 |
|
David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Dec 08, 2025 |
|
Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026)
|
Dec 08, 2025 |
|
Black Girls and How We Fail Them
|
Dec 04, 2025 |
|
Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
|
Dec 02, 2025 |
|
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Dec 01, 2025 |
|
Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
|
Nov 27, 2025 |
|
Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2024)
|
Nov 26, 2025 |
|
Sharon White Rewires Disco
|
Nov 25, 2025 |
|
David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
|
Nov 22, 2025 |
|
Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
|
Nov 22, 2025 |
|
Lucy Caplan, "Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera" (Harvard UP, 2025)
|
Nov 15, 2025 |
|
Rizvana Bradley, "Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form" (Stanford UP, 2023)
|
Nov 15, 2025 |
|
Ronald Angelo Johnson, "Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2025)
|
Nov 13, 2025 |
|
James Brown's War on Disco
|
Nov 11, 2025 |
|
Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
|
Nov 11, 2025 |
|
Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
|
Nov 09, 2025 |
|
Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)
|
Nov 08, 2025 |
|
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
|
Nov 08, 2025 |
|
Diane T. Feldman, "Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
|
Nov 06, 2025 |
|
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
|
Nov 06, 2025 |
|
Diane T. Feldman, "Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
|
Nov 06, 2025 |
|
Disco's Revenge
|
Oct 28, 2025 |
|
Joshua Clark Davis, "Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back" (Princeton UP, 2025)
|
Oct 28, 2025 |
|
Amanda Laury Kleintop, "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Oct 27, 2025 |
|
Javier Wallace, "Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams" (Duke UP, 2025)
|
Oct 26, 2025 |
|
Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
|
Oct 26, 2025 |
|
Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" (Pantheon, 2025)
|
Oct 25, 2025 |
|
Michael W. Twitty, "Recipes from the American South" (Phaidon Press, 2025)
|
Oct 21, 2025 |
|
Peter D. Blackmer, "Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers" (UVA Press, 2025)
|
Oct 21, 2025 |
|
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
|
Oct 20, 2025 |
|
Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
|
Oct 19, 2025 |
|
Darren Mueller, "At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz" (Duke UP, 2024)
|
Oct 12, 2025 |
|
Melissa M. Matthes, "When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter" (Harvard UP, 2021)
|
Oct 11, 2025 |
|
Claire Whitlinger, "Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi" (UNC Press, 2020)
|
Oct 10, 2025 |
|
John Minton, "Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
|
Oct 09, 2025 |
|
Zara Anishanslin, "The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2025)
|
Oct 07, 2025 |
|
Marion Orr, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr." (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Oct 06, 2025 |
|
Meredith L. Roman, "The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
|
Oct 05, 2025 |
|
Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
|
Sep 29, 2025 |
|
Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025)
|
Sep 26, 2025 |
|
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Sep 24, 2025 |
|
Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
|
Sep 24, 2025 |
|
Nicholas Bromell, "The Time is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2013)
|
Sep 23, 2025 |
|
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Sep 22, 2025 |
|
Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
|
Sep 21, 2025 |
|
Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln" (Reedy Press, 2025)
|
Sep 20, 2025 |
|
Marcus Rediker, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea" (Penguin Group, 2025)
|
Sep 20, 2025 |
|
Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
|
Sep 16, 2025 |
|
Keisha N. Blain, "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
|
Sep 14, 2025 |
|
Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
|
Sep 09, 2025 |
|
Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
|
Sep 02, 2025 |
|
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
|
Aug 29, 2025 |
|
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
|
Aug 28, 2025 |
|
Elaine Weiss, "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
|
Aug 26, 2025 |
|
Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
|
Aug 25, 2025 |
|
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" (Beacon, 2025)
|
Aug 25, 2025 |
|
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
|
Aug 24, 2025 |
|
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)
|
Aug 23, 2025 |
|
Rima Vesely-Flad, "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation" (NYU Press, 2022)
|
Aug 22, 2025 |
|
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
|
Aug 20, 2025 |
|
Glenn Ligon, "Distinguishing Piss from Rain" (Hauser & Wirth, 2024)
|
Aug 19, 2025 |
|
Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era"
|
Aug 19, 2025 |
|
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
|
Aug 18, 2025 |
|
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
|
Aug 17, 2025 |
|
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
|
Aug 16, 2025 |
|
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
|
Aug 11, 2025 |
|
Bryon L. Garner, "Black Veteranality: Military Service and the Illusion of Inclusive Patriotism" (Routledge, 2025)
|
Aug 11, 2025 |
|
Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
|
Aug 10, 2025 |
|
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
|
Aug 09, 2025 |
|
Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space" (Viking, 2025)
|
Aug 08, 2025 |
|
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
|
Aug 07, 2025 |
|
Kit W. Myers, "The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States"(U California Press, 2025)
|
Aug 07, 2025 |
|
Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
|
Aug 06, 2025 |
|
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Classicism and Other Phobias" (Princeton UP, 2025)
|
Jul 30, 2025 |
|
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
|
Jul 30, 2025 |
|
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Random House, 2023)
|
Jul 29, 2025 |
|
Shani Adia Evans, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
|
Jul 29, 2025 |
|
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
|
Jul 29, 2025 |
|
Asha Jeffers, "Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
|
Jul 29, 2025 |
|
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
|
Jul 28, 2025 |
|
Joseph O. Jewell, "White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Jul 25, 2025 |
|
Ashley Howard, "Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement" (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Jul 24, 2025 |
|
The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash
|
Jul 23, 2025 |
|
Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
|
Jul 22, 2025 |
|
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
|
Jul 19, 2025 |
|
Sabrina L. Hom, "Critical Mixed Race Philosophy: Rethinking Kinship and Identity" (Lexington Books, 2025)
|
Jul 19, 2025 |
|
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, "Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
|
Jul 18, 2025 |
|
Jeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)
|
Jul 14, 2025 |
|
Andrew S. Berish, "Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
|
Jul 10, 2025 |
|
Joseph Darda, "Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
|
Jul 07, 2025 |
|
Michael Amoruso, "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Jul 06, 2025 |
|
John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)
|
Jul 05, 2025 |
|
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox ed., "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
|
Jul 03, 2025 |
|
Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1895" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
|
Jul 01, 2025 |
|
Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
|
Jun 29, 2025 |
|
Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
|
Jun 27, 2025 |
|
Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?
|
Jun 25, 2025 |
|
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Jun 24, 2025 |
|
Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America"
|
Jun 24, 2025 |
|
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
|
Jun 20, 2025 |
|
Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
|
Jun 17, 2025 |
|
Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
|
Jun 17, 2025 |
|
Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
|
Jun 11, 2025 |
|
Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)
|
Jun 10, 2025 |
|
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
|
Jun 06, 2025 |
|
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Jun 03, 2025 |
|
Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
May 30, 2025 |
|
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
|
May 27, 2025 |
|
Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
|
May 24, 2025 |
|
Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
|
May 16, 2025 |
|
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
|
May 14, 2025 |
|
James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
|
May 13, 2025 |
|
Ariel Nereson, "Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
|
May 11, 2025 |
|
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
|
May 09, 2025 |
|
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
|
May 05, 2025 |
|
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
|
May 02, 2025 |
|
Vanessa Priya Daniel, "Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning" (Random House, 2025)
|
May 01, 2025 |
|
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
|
Apr 29, 2025 |
|
Frederick Knight, "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
|
Apr 28, 2025 |
|
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
|
Apr 26, 2025 |
|
Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025)
|
Apr 25, 2025 |
|
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
|
Apr 22, 2025 |
|
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
|
Apr 20, 2025 |
|
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Apr 19, 2025 |
|
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Apr 15, 2025 |
|
Maurice Jackson, "Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
|
Apr 14, 2025 |
|
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
|
Apr 13, 2025 |
|
Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)
|
Apr 12, 2025 |
|
Forest Issac Jones, "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972" (First Hill Books, 2025)
|
Apr 10, 2025 |
|
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
|
Apr 06, 2025 |
|
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Apr 05, 2025 |
|
Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
|
Apr 04, 2025 |
|
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
|
Apr 03, 2025 |
|
Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
|
Apr 02, 2025 |
|
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
|
Apr 01, 2025 |
|
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
|
Mar 22, 2025 |
|
Victoria Christopher Murray, "Harlem Rhapsody" (Berkley, 2025)
|
Mar 21, 2025 |
|
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
|
Mar 19, 2025 |
|
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
|
Mar 15, 2025 |
|
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Mar 14, 2025 |
|
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
|
Mar 11, 2025 |
|
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
|
Mar 10, 2025 |
|
Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)
|
Mar 09, 2025 |
|
Jack Dempsey, "Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan's Civil War African Americans" (Michigan Civil War Association, 2024)
|
Mar 04, 2025 |
|
Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro, "The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa" (Phaidon Press, 2024)
|
Feb 28, 2025 |
|
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
|
Feb 26, 2025 |
|
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
Feb 20, 2025 |
|
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
|
Feb 19, 2025 |
|
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
|
Feb 18, 2025 |
|
The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman
|
Feb 17, 2025 |
|
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
|
Feb 17, 2025 |
|
The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
|
Feb 13, 2025 |
|
Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)
|
Feb 10, 2025 |
|
Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
|
Feb 07, 2025 |
|
Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)
|
Feb 06, 2025 |
|
Gloria Blizzard, "Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
|
Feb 02, 2025 |
|
Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)
|
Jan 30, 2025 |
|
Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Jan 27, 2025 |
|
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
|
Jan 24, 2025 |
|
Leonne M. Hudson, "Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (Southern Illinois UP, 2024)
|
Jan 24, 2025 |
|
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
|
Jan 23, 2025 |
|
Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
|
Jan 22, 2025 |
|
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
|
Jan 15, 2025 |
|
Anthony Walton, "The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation" (David R. Godine, 2024)
|
Jan 15, 2025 |
|
Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Jan 13, 2025 |
|
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
|
Jan 07, 2025 |
|
Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
|
Jan 07, 2025 |
|
Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
|
Jan 04, 2025 |
|
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
|
Jan 02, 2025 |
|
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Jan 02, 2025 |
|
Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)
|
Jan 01, 2025 |
|
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
|
Jan 01, 2025 |
|
In Conversation: The Antinomies of Afropessimism
|
Jan 01, 2025 |
|
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
|
Dec 31, 2024 |
|
Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
|
Dec 31, 2024 |
|
Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)
|
Dec 30, 2024 |
|
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
|
Dec 29, 2024 |
|
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
|
Dec 25, 2024 |
|
In Conversation: Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
|
Dec 25, 2024 |
|
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
|
Dec 24, 2024 |
|
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
|
Dec 24, 2024 |
|
Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
Dec 17, 2024 |
|
Leslie Beth Ribovich, "Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools" (NYU Press, 2024)
|
Dec 13, 2024 |
|
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Dec 12, 2024 |
|
Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)
|
Dec 10, 2024 |
|
Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
Dec 07, 2024 |
|
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
|
Dec 05, 2024 |
|
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
|
Dec 04, 2024 |
|
Too Black and Rasul A. Mowatt, "Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits" (Routledge, 2024)
|
Nov 29, 2024 |
|
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
|
Nov 28, 2024 |
|
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
|
Nov 27, 2024 |
|
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
Nov 26, 2024 |
|
Elizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
|
Nov 24, 2024 |
|
Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
|
Nov 22, 2024 |
|
Debra Bruno, "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (Cornell UP, 2024)
|
Nov 21, 2024 |
|
Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
Nov 21, 2024 |
|
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
|
Nov 20, 2024 |
|
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
|
Nov 19, 2024 |
|
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Nov 19, 2024 |
|
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
Nov 19, 2024 |
|
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
|
Nov 18, 2024 |
|
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Nov 18, 2024 |
|
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
|
Nov 17, 2024 |
|
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
|
Nov 16, 2024 |
|
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
|
Nov 14, 2024 |
|
Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)
|
Nov 09, 2024 |
|
Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
|
Nov 06, 2024 |
|
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
|
Nov 03, 2024 |
|
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
|
Oct 27, 2024 |
|
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
|
Oct 27, 2024 |
|
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History, Volume 2" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
|
Oct 22, 2024 |
|
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
|
Oct 19, 2024 |
|
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Oct 18, 2024 |
|
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
|
Oct 16, 2024 |
|
Boris Adjemian, "The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
|
Oct 12, 2024 |
|
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
|
Oct 07, 2024 |
|
Camille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)
|
Oct 03, 2024 |
|
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
|
Oct 03, 2024 |
|
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
|
Sep 30, 2024 |
|
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Sep 25, 2024 |
|
Wayne A. Wiegand, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
|
Sep 23, 2024 |
|
Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024)
|
Sep 21, 2024 |
|
Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
|
Sep 21, 2024 |
|
David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
|
Sep 20, 2024 |
|
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
|
Sep 19, 2024 |
|
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
|
Sep 15, 2024 |
|
Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Sep 13, 2024 |
|
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
|
Sep 07, 2024 |
|
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
|
Sep 07, 2024 |
|
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
|
Sep 06, 2024 |
|
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
|
Sep 03, 2024 |
|
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
|
Sep 03, 2024 |
|
Tadashi Dozono, "Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
|
Aug 31, 2024 |
|
Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Aug 23, 2024 |
|
Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
|
Aug 22, 2024 |
|
Devonya N. Havis, "Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy" (Lexington Books, 2022)
|
Aug 20, 2024 |
|
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Haitian History: New Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)
|
Aug 17, 2024 |
|
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
|
Aug 15, 2024 |
|
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
|
Aug 14, 2024 |
|
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
|
Aug 07, 2024 |
|
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
|
Aug 05, 2024 |
|
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
|
Aug 05, 2024 |
|
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
|
Aug 04, 2024 |
|
Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
|
Aug 03, 2024 |
|
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
|
Aug 02, 2024 |
|
Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
|
Aug 01, 2024 |
|
Prithi Kanakamedala, "Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough" (NYU Press, 2024)
|
Jul 28, 2024 |
|
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
|
Jul 28, 2024 |
|
Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
|
Jul 28, 2024 |
|
Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
|
Jul 21, 2024 |
|
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
|
Jul 20, 2024 |
|
Michael J. Douma, "The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
|
Jul 20, 2024 |
|
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
|
Jul 18, 2024 |
|
Charly Palmer and Karida Brown, "The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
|
Jul 15, 2024 |
|
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
|
Jul 15, 2024 |
|
Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
|
Jul 15, 2024 |
|
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
|
Jul 15, 2024 |
|
Theresa McCulla, "Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Jul 11, 2024 |
|
Kellie Carter Jackson, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press, 2024)
|
Jul 10, 2024 |
|
Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
|
Jul 04, 2024 |
|
Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
|
Jul 03, 2024 |
|
Ben Wright, "Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism" (LSU Press, 2020)
|
Jul 02, 2024 |
|
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
|
Jul 01, 2024 |
|
Bayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)
|
Jun 30, 2024 |
|
On Michael Jackson: A Lecture by Margo Jefferson
|
Jun 29, 2024 |
|
Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
Jun 27, 2024 |
|
Frederick Klaits et al., "Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
|
Jun 26, 2024 |
|
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
|
Jun 25, 2024 |
|
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
|
Jun 24, 2024 |
|
Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
|
Jun 22, 2024 |
|
Sally Stocksdale, "When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate" (McFarland, 2022)
|
Jun 19, 2024 |
|
Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024)
|
Jun 12, 2024 |
|
Screwed and Chopped
|
Jun 10, 2024 |
|
Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)
|
Jun 09, 2024 |
|
Financial Institutions and Enslavement
|
Jun 08, 2024 |
|
Corey J. Miles, "Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South" (U Mississippi Press, 2024)
|
Jun 07, 2024 |
|
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
|
Jun 06, 2024 |
|
Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
|
Jun 05, 2024 |
|
Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
|
Jun 02, 2024 |
|
Richard E. Ocejo, "Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City" (Princeton UP, 2024)
|
Jun 02, 2024 |
|
Ears Racing
|
May 27, 2024 |
|
Larry Roeder and Barry Harrelson, "Dirt Don't Burn: A Black Community's Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
|
May 27, 2024 |
|
Jesse McCarthy, "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
May 26, 2024 |
|
Danielle R. Olden, "Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America" (U California Press, 2022)
|
May 22, 2024 |
|
Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin, "Race and Transnationalism in the Americas" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
|
May 22, 2024 |
|
Laura Helton, "Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History" (Columbia UP, 2024)
|
May 22, 2024 |
|
Ryan Reft, "Heroin and Chocolate City: Black Community Responses to Drug Addiction in the Nation’s Capital, 1967-1973" (2024)
|
May 20, 2024 |
|
Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, "Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2024)
|
May 19, 2024 |
|
Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
May 17, 2024 |
|
Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
|
May 15, 2024 |
|
Kevin Woodson, "The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
|
May 13, 2024 |
|
Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
|
May 13, 2024 |
|
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, "The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2023)
|
May 12, 2024 |
|
Robert K. D. Colby, "An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
May 10, 2024 |
|
Luis H. H. Favela, "The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment" (Routledge, 2024)
|
May 10, 2024 |
|
Kendra Y. Hamilton, "Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
|
May 10, 2024 |
|
Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, "Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
May 07, 2024 |
|
James Wolfinger, "If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia" (Temple UP, 2022)
|
May 06, 2024 |
|
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
|
May 02, 2024 |
|
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
|
Apr 30, 2024 |
|
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
|
Apr 29, 2024 |
|
John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
|
Apr 28, 2024 |
|
Adam J. Criblez, "Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City" (Three Hills, 2024)
|
Apr 26, 2024 |
|
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
|
Apr 21, 2024 |
|
Fumilayo Showers, "Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
|
Apr 21, 2024 |
|
Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)
|
Apr 19, 2024 |
|
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Apr 15, 2024 |
|
Joseph H. Holland, "Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers" (Dafina, 2023)
|
Apr 14, 2024 |
|
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
|
Apr 14, 2024 |
|
JJ Johnson and Danica Novgorodoff, "The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
|
Apr 13, 2024 |
|
R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Apr 13, 2024 |
|
Elyse Ambrose, "A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive" (T&T Clark, 2024)
|
Apr 11, 2024 |
|
Shardé M. Davis, "Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education" (UNC Press, 2024)
|
Apr 09, 2024 |
|
Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
|
Apr 08, 2024 |
|
Greg Jarrell, "Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods" (Fortress Press, 2024)
|
Apr 03, 2024 |
|
David J. Dennis Jr. and David J. Dennis Sr., "The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride" (Harper, 2022)
|
Mar 30, 2024 |
|
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)
|
Mar 29, 2024 |
|
Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, "From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle" (Vanderbilt UP, 2024)
|
Mar 29, 2024 |
|
Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife" (U California Press, 2023)
|
Mar 22, 2024 |
|
Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
|
Mar 19, 2024 |
|
Jonathan W. White, "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
|
Mar 15, 2024 |
|
Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Mar 15, 2024 |
|
Myisha Cherry, "Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Mar 15, 2024 |
|
Victoria Perry, "A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape" (Hurst, 2022)
|
Mar 14, 2024 |
|
Thomas Mareite, "Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861" (Brill, 2024)
|
Mar 13, 2024 |
|
Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Mar 13, 2024 |
|
Judith Tick, "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song" (Norton, 2023)
|
Mar 12, 2024 |
|
Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Mar 12, 2024 |
|
Sharon D. Wright Austin, "Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors" (Temple UP, 2023)
|
Mar 11, 2024 |
|
Rachel Jamison Webster, "Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family" (Henry Holt, 2023)
|
Mar 11, 2024 |
|
Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
|
Mar 10, 2024 |
|
Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
|
Mar 09, 2024 |
|
Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)
|
Mar 08, 2024 |
|
Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Mar 07, 2024 |
|
Amy Coddington, "How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race" (U California Press, 2023)
|
Mar 06, 2024 |
|
Derron Wallace, "The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth" (Oxford UP, 2023)
|
Mar 04, 2024 |
|
Horace J. Maxile, Jr. and Kristen M. Turner, "Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide" (Routledge, 2022)
|
Feb 27, 2024 |
|
Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
|
Feb 24, 2024 |
|
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)
|
Feb 23, 2024 |
|
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
|
Feb 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)
|
Feb 17, 2024 |
|
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
|
Feb 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)
|
Feb 10, 2024 |
|
Jennifer Sdunzik, "The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration through Small-Town America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
|
Feb 09, 2024 |
|
Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)
|
Feb 07, 2024 |
|
Steven High, "Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
|
Feb 07, 2024 |
|
Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2023)
|
Feb 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)
|
Feb 05, 2024 |
|
Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell, "Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production" (Intellect, 2023)
|
Feb 04, 2024 |
|
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
|
Feb 03, 2024 |
|
Marc Arsell Robinson, "Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest" (NYU Press, 2023)
|
Feb 02, 2024 |
|
The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
|
Feb 01, 2024 |
|
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
|
Feb 01, 2024 |
|
Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Jan 31, 2024 |
|
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
|
Jan 30, 2024 |
|
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Jan 30, 2024 |
|
Damien Sojoyner, "Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice" (Fordham UP, 2023)
|
Jan 28, 2024 |
|
Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
|
Jan 26, 2024 |
|
Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)
|
Jan 24, 2024 |
|
Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
|
Jan 22, 2024 |
|
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
|
Jan 21, 2024 |
|
Black and Queer on Campus
|
Jan 18, 2024 |
|
Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
|
Jan 18, 2024 |
|
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
|
Jan 15, 2024 |
|
Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
|
Jan 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)
|
Jan 13, 2024 |
|
Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Jan 12, 2024 |
|
Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
|
Jan 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)
|
Jan 11, 2024 |
|
Darnise C. Martin, "Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church" (NYU Press, 2005)
|
Jan 11, 2024 |
|
Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
|
Jan 04, 2024 |
|
Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)
|
Dec 31, 2023 |
|
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
|
Dec 29, 2023 |
|
Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
|
Dec 29, 2023 |
|
Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
|
Dec 28, 2023 |
|
D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)
|
Dec 28, 2023 |
|
Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
|
Dec 27, 2023 |
|
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
|
Dec 26, 2023 |
|
Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
|
Dec 26, 2023 |
|
Jafari S. Allen, "There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
|
Dec 25, 2023 |
|
Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)
|
Dec 25, 2023 |
|
Nessette Falu, "Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Dec 24, 2023 |
|
Michelle J. Manno, "Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity" (NYU Press, 2023)
|
Dec 23, 2023 |
|
Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Dec 21, 2023 |
|
Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)
|
Dec 18, 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)
|
Dec 18, 2023 |
|
David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)
|
Dec 12, 2023 |
|
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy
|
Dec 07, 2023 |
|
Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle
|
Dec 07, 2023 |
|
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
|
Dec 04, 2023 |
|
Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)
|
Dec 04, 2023 |
|
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
|
Dec 03, 2023 |
|
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
|
Dec 02, 2023 |
|
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
|
Dec 01, 2023 |
|
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Nov 30, 2023 |
|
Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Nov 28, 2023 |
|
Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
|
Nov 25, 2023 |
|
Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Nov 24, 2023 |
|
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
|
Nov 24, 2023 |
|
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
|
Nov 23, 2023 |
|
Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenomenology of Black Spirit" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
|
Nov 22, 2023 |
|
Lama Rod Owens, "The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors" (Sounds True, 2023)
|
Nov 19, 2023 |
|
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
|
Nov 17, 2023 |
|
Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Nov 15, 2023 |
|
Jeffrey Scholes, "Christianity, Race, and Sport" (Routledge, 2021)
|
Nov 14, 2023 |
|
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Nov 13, 2023 |
|
Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)
|
Nov 13, 2023 |
|
Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)
|
Nov 12, 2023 |
|
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
|
Nov 12, 2023 |
|
Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
|
Nov 10, 2023 |
|
Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)
|
Nov 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)
|
Nov 04, 2023 |
|
Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
|
Nov 01, 2023 |
|
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
|
Nov 01, 2023 |
|
Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
|
Oct 30, 2023 |
|
Frederick V. Engram, "Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
|
Oct 30, 2023 |
|
Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Oct 29, 2023 |
|
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
|
Oct 28, 2023 |
|
James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)
|
Oct 28, 2023 |
|
Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
|
Oct 27, 2023 |
|
Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)
|
Oct 25, 2023 |
|
Decolonizing Praxis
|
Oct 23, 2023 |
|
Matthew Guariglia, "Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Oct 21, 2023 |
|
Philip Dray, "A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age" (FSG, 2022)
|
Oct 19, 2023 |
|
Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)
|
Oct 18, 2023 |
|
Katherine Jensen, "The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
|
Oct 18, 2023 |
|
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
|
Oct 18, 2023 |
|
Orisanmi Burton, "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" (U California Press, 2023)
|
Oct 17, 2023 |
|
Nick Tabor, "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
|
Oct 16, 2023 |
|
John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)
|
Oct 15, 2023 |
|
Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)
|
Oct 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)
|
Oct 14, 2023 |
|
Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)
|
Oct 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)
|
Oct 13, 2023 |
|
Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
|
Oct 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)
|
Oct 11, 2023 |
|
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)
|
Oct 10, 2023 |
|
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
|
Oct 09, 2023 |
|
Sharon Patricia Holland, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life" (Duke UP, 2023)
|
Oct 07, 2023 |
|
Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
|
Oct 04, 2023 |
|
Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)
|
Oct 01, 2023 |
|
Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
|
Sep 30, 2023 |
|
Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
|
Sep 30, 2023 |
|
Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Sep 28, 2023 |
|
Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
|
Sep 27, 2023 |