New Books in African American Studies
Episodes
Funké Aladejebi, "Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In post-World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to...
Elizabeth Hinton, "America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since The 1960s" (Liveright, 2021)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellions since the 1960s (Liveright, 2021) Dr. Elizabeth Hinton asserts the s...
Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies...
Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade, "No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media" (Vernon Press, 2020)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media (Vernon Press, 2020) examines the social phenomenon of construction and diss...
Kevin Quashie, "Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Duke University Press, 2012), Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being ...
Van Gosse, "The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the ov...
Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nostalgia has received increasing attention for its role in shaping contemporary social and political life in the United States. Dr. Badia Ahad-Legard...
Timothy D. Walker, "Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More than 70 percent of the 103 pre-Emancipation slave narratives acknowledged using waterways as their method for escaping enslavement. However, much...
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (Ohio State UP, 2020), Sean Guynes and Martin Lund have assembled more than fifteen chap...
Todne Thomas, "Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality" (Duke UP, 2021)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality (Duke University Press, 2021) by Todne Thomas takes a deep dive into the social and religious liv...
Claudrena N. Harold, "When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel, Whe...
Bob Kuska and Archie Clark, "Shake and Bake: The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one of the game’s most recogni...
Amaka Okechukwu, "To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions" (Columbia UP, 2019)
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014 and 2015, students at dozens of colleges and universities held protests demanding increased representation of Black and Latino students and ca...
Jamila Lyiscott, "Black Appetite. White Food. Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom" (Routledge, 2019)
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One year to the day after George Flloyd’s murder, Dr. Jamila Lyiscott discusses her book on racial justice in education: Black Appetite. White Fo...
Cécile Fromont, "Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition" (Penn State, 2019)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edited by Dr. Cécile Fromont, Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (Pe...
Katrinell M. Davis, "Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery" (UNC Press, 2021)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years d...
Neil Altman, "White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Altman’s White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) is a slip (80 pages including references and the index) of a book th...
The Social Constructions of Race: A Discussion with Brigitte Fielder
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to br...
Cat M. Ariail, "Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At almost any international sporting event in which the US competes, it is now common (and appropriate) to remark on the composition of the American t...
Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Professor West is among the nation’s most distinguished philosophers...
Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi, "Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites" (Oxford UP, 2021)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
All political candidates make strategic choices about how to present themselves to voters but not all candidates have to “weigh decisions about thei...
Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2020) is t...
Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Rothman’s The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America was published by Basic Books in 2021, and tells a sprawling h...
Kathryn Benjamin Golden, "Armed in the Great Swamp': Fear, Maroon Insurrection, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp" (2021)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, we are inundated with daily images of racial terror, state violence, and technologies of punishment showing pictures of broken down, beleague...
Justene Hill Edwards, "Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina" (Columbia UP, 2021)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Justene Hill Edwards is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina (Columbia University Press,...
Matthew Clair, "Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court" (Princeton UP, 2020)
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Princeton UP, 2020) by Matthew Clair is a powerful ethnographic study of the ...
Moya Bailey, "Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance" (NYU Press, 2021)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny. When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways ...
John Murillo III, "Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation (Ohio State UP, 2021), John Murillo offers bold new readings of recent an...
Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader (University of California Press, 2021), Jordana Moore Saggese provides the first comprehensive sourcebook on the ...
João José Reis, "Ganhadores: A greve negra de 1857 na Bahia" (Companhia das Letras, 2019)
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Um retrato original da Bahia no século XIX, num livro cheio de movimento e vozes, sobretudo da gente negra. Em Ganhadores: A Greve Negra de 1857 na ...
Kate Dossett, "Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal" (UNC Press, 2020)
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Dossett's book Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal (UNC Press, 2020) turns conventional understandings of the Federal Theatre Project on its...
Alison M. Parker, "Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell" (UNC Press, 2020)
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Alison M. Parker’s new book Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) explores the life o...
David Alan Sklansky, "A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What it Means for Justice" (Harvard UP, 2020)
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the George Floyd killing, many Americans are engaging in a renewed debate about the role violence and especially police violence, plays...
Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some books are new, others are newly relevant – and so worth looking at from a new, contemporary perspective. Such is the case with Susan Reverby’...
Maureen Mahon, "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" (Duke UP, 2020)
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maureen Mahon’s book, Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll (Duke University Press, 2020), focuses on the contributions t...
Karlos K. Hill, "The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of May 31, 1921, thousands of white Oklahomans assaulted the Greenwood District of the city of Tulsa. In what would come to be known as...
Tara T. Green, "Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From ships and novels to Mardi Gras, water, and television, how does the legacy of the Middle Passage, the leg of the Atlantic through which African p...
E. Patrick Johnson, "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South" (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
E. Patrick Johnson's Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) has been a monograph, a documentary film, a s...
Nikki Lane, "The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki Lane's The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) enters as...
Susan Ware, "American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965" (Library of America, 2020)
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which granted women the right to vote nationwide, was the culmi...
Hari Ziyad, "Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir" (Little a, 2021)
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their ow...
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom" (Indiana UP, 2021)
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do race and sexuality intersect in the American sitcom? In The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom (Indiana University Press...
Jarvis R. Givens, "Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching" (Harvard UP, 2021)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam McNeil. On today’s podcast, I am intervie...
James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so f...
Fatima Shaik, "Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood" (HNOC, 2021)
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fatima Shaik's book Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood (Historic New Orleans Collections, 2021) tells the story of the Soc...
Andrew Maraniss, "Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke" (Philomel Books, 2021)
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On October 2nd, 1977, Glenn Burke, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, made history without even swinging a bat. When his teammate Dusty Baker hit...
Tamika Y. Nunley, "At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C." (UNC Press, 2021)
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the tar...
Joshua Bennett, "Owed" (Penguin, 2020)
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Owed (Penguin, 2020) is the second collection of poems by Dr. Joshua Bennett, poet, professor, and artist. This volume is a wide-ranging, celebrator...
Richard Jean So, "Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Pr...
B. K. Mitchell, et al., "Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana" (HNOC, 2021)
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Brian K. Mitchell describes Reconstruction as the most misunderstood period in American history. In the Jim Crow era, there was a concerted effort...
Michael Rosino, "Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and Media in the War on Drugs Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since President Nixon coined the phrase, the "War on Drugs" has presented an important change in how people view and discuss criminal justice practice...
Elyssa Ford, "Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Race, Gender, and Identity in the American Rodeo" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a rodeo rider atop a bucking bronco, hat in hand, straining to remain astride. Is the rider in your mind's eye white? Is the person male? Pop...
Danielle Fuentes Morgan, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the 21st Century" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The election of Barack Obama propelled the idea of a post-racial United States, or that the country had moved beyond race as a defining feature of soc...
Bertram Levine and Grande Lum, "America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights" (U Missouri Press, 2020)
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Community Relations Service (CRS) came into being alongside the Voting Rights Act—as part of the Act itself. And this organization was integrate...
Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Radin was one of the founding generation of American cultural anthropologists: A student of Franz Boas, and famed ethnographer of the Winneb...
Thomas C. Holt, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2021)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements ...
Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner, "African American Political Thought: A Collected History" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political theorists Melvin Rogers and Jack “Chip” Turner have produced a truly magisterial edited volume centering the work by African American th...
Daina R. Berry and Kali N. Gross, "A Black Women's History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2020)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Kali Nicole Gross about her new book (co-authored with Daina Ramey Berry) A Black Women's History of the United States (Beacon P...
Elizabeth L. Jemison, "Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South" (UNC Press, 2020)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth L. Jemison, who teaches American religious history at Clemson University, South Carolina, has written an outstanding new book, Christian C...
Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Missi...
Nate Chinen, "Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century" (Vintage, 2019)
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nate Chinen's Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Vintage, 2019) is an essential guide to 21st century jazz. Named a best book of the year by...
Karen Woods Weierman, "The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston" (U Massachusetts Press, 2019)
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's...
David A. Less, "Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World" (ECW Press, 2020)
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to David A. Lees about his book Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World (ECW Press, 2020) David Less has studie...
Jelani Favors, "Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism" (U of North Carolina Press, 2020)
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) by Dr. Je...
Erica Ball et al., "As if She Were Free" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edited by Drs. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, As if She Were Free (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a collective biography ...
R. A. Judy, "Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black" (Duke UP, 2020)
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview R.A. Judy, professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, about his book Sentient Flesh: Th...
Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. I...
William C. Kashatus, "William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William Still looms large in the history of the Underground Railroad, both for his role coordinating the Eastern Line and the records he maintained of...
Christopher T. Stout, "The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals (University of Virginia Press, 2020) dives into the discussion ...
B. Brian Foster, "I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life" (UNC Press, 2020)
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Foster, self-identified Black boy from rural Mississippi, joins us today for a conversation about his book, I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place...
Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This ambitious work explores the literary and cultural production about Russian peasants and African Americans in the post-emancipation period. Bricke...
Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This ambitious work explores the literary and cultural production about Russian peasants and African Americans in the post-emancipation period. Bricke...
JeVon McCormick: Entrepreneur, Author and Speaker
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
JeVon McCormick was born the son of a black pimp father and a white orphan mother. Hear how, as a nine year old, he critiqued the way his father manag...
Theodore D. Segal, "Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice" (Duke UP, 2021)
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Duke University officially integrated its student body in the early 1960s, but the University itself did little to make students of color feel as thou...
Evan Rapport, "Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical s...
Candacy Taylor, "Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America" (Abrams Press, 2020)
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Candacy Taylor about her book Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Press, 2020). T...
Daphne A. Brooks, "Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound" (Harvard UP, 2021)
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University Press, 2021) by Dr. Daphne Brooks is a lyrical mast...
Robert L. Stone, "Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community" (U of Mississippi Press, 2020)
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the commun...
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic ...
Alison Phipps, "Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism" (Manchester UP, 2020)
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined today by Alison Phipps, Professor in Gender Studies and the University of Sussex to talk about her newest book, Me, Not You: The Troub...
How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy: A Discussion with Michael Hanchard
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic prin...
Cathleen D. Cahill, "Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote unt...
Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2028)
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tavia Nyong’o's Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018), examines a broad range of artists and disciplines, from Adrian ...
Kimberly Mack, "Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White" (U Mass Press, 2020)
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosit...
Mical Raz, "Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way" (UNC Press Books, 2020)
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed re...
Earl Wright II, "Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology" (University of Cincinnati Press, 2020)
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology (U Cincinnati Press, 2020) is an extraordinary new volume that examines the o...
Gretchen Sorin, "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2020)
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gretchen Sorin’s book, Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights (Liveright, 2020) is Sorin’s ode to a part of...
Sheldon George, "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity" (Baylor UP, 2016)
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his book, Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (Baylor UP, 2016), Sheldon George treats an old idea--that Africa...
Roundtable on W. E. B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935)
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I am delighted to have y’all listen to the conversation I had with three of my favorite historians in all the dad-gum world. January 2021 has been a...
Tyler Stovall, "White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2021)
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trad...
Andratesha Fritzgerald, "Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning" (Cast, 2020)
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of 2020’s movements for Black Lives and exposed racial disparities in working-class deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, educational ins...
GerShun Avilez, "Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being s...
Cedric Burrows, "The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers" (2011)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In this series, we delve into the background of Malcolm X's action and thought ...
Maya Stovall, "Liquor Store Theatre" (Duke UP, 2020)
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For six years, anthropologist and artist Maya Stovall enacted a series of dance performances outside of liquor stores in the McDougall-Hunt neighbor...
Careers: A Discussion with Dorothy Berry, Digital Archivist
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s podcast, I am chatting with Dorothy Berry, Houghton Library's Digital Collections Program Manager. In it, we discuss why she became an a...
Richard J. Boles, "Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North" (NYU Press, 2020)
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (NYU Press, 2020), Richard J. Boles argues that, contrary to tra...
Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927" (Columbia UP, 2020)
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an exten...
Careers: A Discussion with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Studies Scholar
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on New Books in African American Studies I am chatting with Carleton College Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science Dr. ...
Bruce Haynes, "Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family" (Columbia UP, 2019)
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (Columbia UP, 2019) tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connec...
Rachel Berenson Perry, "The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light" (Indiana UP, 2019)
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Rachel Berenson Perry about her book The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light (Indiana University Press, 2019). Fel...