New Books in African American Studies
Episodes
Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism" (NYU Press, 2020)
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism (NYU Press, 2020), Pat Zavella shows how reproductive just...
Raymond Winbush, "The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writing of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing" (Black Classics Press, 2019)
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s interview is with Dr. Raymond Winbush a research professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. ...
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2020)
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Hacking Diversity: The Politics of inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton University Press, 2020), Christina-Dunbar Hester, an associate ...
Walter Johnson, "The Broken Heart of America" (Basic Books, 2020)
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
St. Louis, Missouri is the city with the highest rate of police shootings in the United States. It’s the city with an 18 year difference in life exp...
Mark Anderson, "From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology" (Stanford UP, 2019)
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Anderson’s From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology (Stanford University Press) is at once a story about US anthr...
Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James West speaks with Jerry Gershenhorn, Julius L. Chambers Professor of History at North Carolina Central University, about Louis Austin and the C...
Peniel E. Joseph, "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr." (Basic, 2020)
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do the political afterlives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. continue to shape American democracy? How does a common myth of opposition di...
Richard Gergel, "Unexampled Courage" (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring (Sara...
Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descen...
Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia" (UNC Press, 2020)
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her nuanced case study of postemanciaption Virginia, Nicole Myers Turner, (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University) challenges ...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (Wesleyan UP, 2020)
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer J. Davis speaks with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, about The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan UP, 202...
Joshua M. Myers, "We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989" (NYU Press, 2019)
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019) is the first history of the 1989 Howard Unive...
Edward J. Robinson, "Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A History of African American Churches of Christ" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A History of African American Churches of Christ (University of Tennessee Press, 2019), Edward J. Robinson pro...
Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide" (Hachette, 2020)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After working on two presidential campaigns (for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton), MSNBC political analyst and SiriusXM host Zerlina Maxwell gained f...
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession? Tsedale Melaku explores this question and more in her new book: You Don’t L...
François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2020)
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Officer Clemmons: A Memoir (Catapult, 2020), François Clemmons tells the story of how he became the first ever African-American recurring characte...
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his powerful new book, A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation (Oxford University Press, 2020), Greg Garr...
Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lie...
A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge Un...
Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2020)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Robert T. Chase about his book, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postw...
Steven J. L. Taylor, "Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators: African Americans in Ghana" (SUNY Press, 2019)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
African Americans have a long history of emigration. In Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators: African Americans in Ghana, Steven J. L. Taylor explores...
Shana Redmond, "Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson" (Duke UP, 2020)
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke University Press, 2020), Shana Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silence...
Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun (Rutgers University Press, 2020) by Clifford Mason, celebrated act...
Monika Gosin, "The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles For Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami" (Cornell UP, 2019)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over recent years, scholarship centering Afrolatinidad has pushed the bounds of the field towards greater forms of racial and ethnic understanding. Dr...
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit" (U California Press, 2020)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay of Oakland University on their new book Women...
Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" (Indiana UP, 2019)
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Kamugisha reads CLR James and Sylvia Wynter to glean from them ways to navigate the “beyond” of coloniality. In his new book Beyond Colonia...
Sherrow O. Pinder et al., "Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “...
Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America" (NYU Press, 2019)
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America (NYU Press, 2019) is an intellectual and cultural history of the ...
Jill Strauss, "Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people...
Lynn M. Thomas, "Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners" (Duke UP, 2020)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
By 2024, global sales of skin lighteners are projected to reach more than $30 billion. Despite the planetary scale of its use, skin lightening remains...
Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960" (Columbia UP, 2020)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paige Glotzer is the author of How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960, published by Columbia ...
Edward Onaci, "Free The Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State" (UNC Press, 2020)
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many conclude...
Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Africana and AfroAm Studies
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Where do good ideas come from? How does an idea go from creation to a research project? How is historical research done? And how does research find it...
H. Moore and J. Tracy, "No Fascist USA!" (City Lights, 2020)
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Social Movements (City Lights Publishing, 2020) by Hilary Moore and Jame...
Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man" (Harvard UP, 2020)
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and ...
Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for Critical Consciousness" (Harvard Education, 2020)
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Scott Seider from Boston College and Dr. Daren Graves from Simmons University on their new book, Schooling for Criti...
Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression" (NYU Press, 2020)
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel? Civil rights attorney and law professor Gilda R. Daniels insists that contemporary voter ID laws, voter deception,...
Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright, 2020)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State? Why and how is anti-Black racism differen...
Bharat Malkani, "Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition" (Routledge, 2018)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the connection between the movement for death penalty abolition and the anti-slavery movement? In Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Ab...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...
Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a New History" (Yale UP, 2019)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in Color, his 1925 collection of poems. African Americans and Africa: A New ...
Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York" (NYU Press, 2019)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innoce...
Kathryn H. Ross, "Black Was Not a Label" (Pronto, 2019)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn H. Ross has found a balance. Between past and present. Between self and ancestors. Between self-discovery and continuous growth. In her hybrid...
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transat...
Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights" (UP Kentucky, 2019)
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperit...
Natasha J. Lightfoot, "Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2015)
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Duke University Press, 2015), Natasha J. Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans ...
Forrest Stuart, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy" (Princeton UP, 2020)
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power? In his new book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online In...
Kenesha N. Grant, "The Great Migration and the Democratic Party" (Temple UP, 2020)
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kenesha N. Grant, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University, at the beginning of her new book, The Great Migration and the Democra...
Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa" (James Currey, 2019)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Heffernan's new book Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa (James Currey, 2019) is a thoroughly researched account o...
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Technology has been instrumental in allowing audiences to encounter expressions of culture to which they may have no direct connection. The popular co...
Le’Trice D. Donaldson, "Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920" (SIUP, 2020)
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920 (Southern Illinois...
Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam H. Domby, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Charleston, has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it c...
Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History" (Princeton UP, 2020)
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than t...
Mary Stanton, "Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Stanton's Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950 (University of Georgia Press, 2019) is the first narrative history of the ...
Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
American masculinity is being critiqued, questioned, and reinterpreted for a new era. In Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in Ameri...
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality. Rather than fall bac...
Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, "Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior" (Princeton UP, 2020)
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In their new book, Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior (Princeton University Press, 2020), political scientists Isma...
Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Harvard UP, 2020)
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions f...
Jeff Forret, "William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Forret is the author of William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts, published by Cambridge University Press in 20...
Paula C. Austin, "Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life" (NYU Press, 2019)
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2019) by Paula C. Austin, an Assistant Professor of history at Bost...
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat....
Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce" (Routledge, 2020)
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Has can theatre confront racial inequality? In Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce (Routledge, 2020), Tobie S. Stein, Profes...
Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at ...
Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his dazzling new book The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Spencer Dew treats his read...
Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his newly released book City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 (University of Georgia Press, 2020), Profe...
Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form" (Routledge, 2017)
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit ...
Great Books: John Callahan on Ellison's "Invisible Man"
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Waldo Ellison's masterpiece Invisible Man tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity in a c...
Nancy Appelbaum, "Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia" (UNC Press, 2016)
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chorographic Commission of Colombia, an ambitious geographical expedition, set out to define and map a nascent and ...
Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2019)
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously reco...
Paul J. Polgar, "Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul J. Polgar is the author of Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement, published by University of North Carolina Press in...
AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry on the Becoming Historians
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in ...
Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Though the story of emancipation is well known in American history, the roles of many of the key figures involved in it are often overlooked. Among th...
Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town" (UNC Press, 2016)
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Ellen Griffith Spears of the University of Alabama, author of Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town (Univer...
Graham R. G. Hodges, "Black New Jersey 1664 to the Present Day" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Black New Jersey 1664 to the Present Day (Rutgers University Press, 2018) by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, George Langdon, Jr. Professor of History and A...
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Philli...
Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.” This line from Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, captures wh...
Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia" (U California Press, 2019)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period t...
Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement" (NewSouth Books, 2020)
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
School choice, widely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in th...
Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Argentina promotes itself as a country of European immigrants. This makes it an exception to other Latin American countries, which embrace a more mixe...
Peter Cole, "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press, 2018) is a fascinating, densely researched...
Great Books: Emily Bernard on Larsen's "Passing"
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nella Larsen's gripping 1929 novel Passing recounts the fateful encounter, first on a fancy Chicago hotel rooftop restaurant on a sweltering August af...
adrienne maree brown, "Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good" (AK Press, 2019)
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the introduction to Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (AK Press, 2019), adrienne maree brown defines pleasure activism as “the wor...
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, "Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy" (The New Press, 2018)
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, Professors of History at California State University—Fresno, discuss their co-authored book, Denmark Vesey’s Gar...
Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indies, 2018)
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rupert Lewis has written a biography of Marcus Garvey published by the University Press of the West Indies in 2018. His book Marcus Garvey documents t...
Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South" (UNC Press, 2016)
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Blain Roberts of California State University, Fresno, talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging...
Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou" (Duke UP, 2019)
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Duke University Press, 2019), Roberto Strongman reveals ...
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At ...
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam” (First Edition Design, 2017)
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
America has the largest incarcerated population in the world. This staggering and troubling fact has driven a great deal of scholarship. Much of this ...
Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project" (UNC Press, 2016)
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine A. Stewart is the author of Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project, published by the University of North Car...
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. How...
Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America" (U California Press, 2019)
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-F...
Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World" (Oxford UP, 2019)
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy pro...
Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing" (U Texas Press, 2020)
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Andrew R. M. Smith, author of No Way But To Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing (University of Texas Press, 2020)....
Adrienne Petty, "Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2013)
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Adrienne Petty discusses her book, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2013...
Great Books: Rich Blint on James Baldwin's "Another Country"
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If we - and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks [...] do not falter in our duty now, we may be able [...] ...
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas has written a beautiful, captivating, and thoughtful book about the idea of our imaginations, especially our cultural imaginati...
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) by Christopher Cameron, an Associate Professor of h...
John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Male College Athletes" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
College sport is a multi-billion dollar industry. The men and women who lead the teams in the most important conferences often make millions of dollar...
Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keri Leigh Merritt discusses her book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and interse...
Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti" (U Penn Press, 2019)
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon R. Byrd is the author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 201...