New Books in African American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of African America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
1101
Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Inte...
In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet...
48 min
1102
David A. Harris, "A City Divided: Race, Fear an...
How do we move police forces from a warrior culture to connecting better with communities they serve?
42 min
1103
Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
White beautifully brings to life the lives and experiences of a number of enslaved women and men whose individual stories have heretofore never been told..,
73 min
1104
Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation The...
Butler explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities...
44 min
1105
Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated ...
Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...
64 min
1106
M. C. Stevenson et al. (eds.), "The Legacy of R...
When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.
31 min
1107
Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and ...
In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...
50 min
1108
Andrew Kettler, "The Smell of Slavery: Olfactor...
Kettler charts the impact that smell had on the making of race and justifications for enslavement in the Atlantic world....
51 min
1109
Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Sha...
Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...
67 min
1110
Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductiv...
Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...
46 min
1111
Raymond Winbush, "The Osiris Papers: Reflection...
"The Osiris Papers" Is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing...
44 min
1112
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: Th...
Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.
34 min
1113
Walter Johnson, "The Broken Heart of America" (...
The book tracks how anti-Blackness in America has long had everything to do with imperialism, working as much by removal as by predation...
58 min
1114
Mark Anderson, "From Boas to Black Power: Racis...
By interrogating the Boasian intervention into the idea of biological race, Anderson shows how, despite their progressive and anti-racist intentions, Boas and ‘the Boasians’ naturalised the idea of the United States as a white nation...
49 min
1115
Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Caroli...
Gershenhorn's award-winning study recovers the life and activism of Louis Austin and the influence of his newspaper, the Carolina Times...
54 min
1116
Peniel E. Joseph, "The Sword and the Shield: Th...
Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...
53 min
1117
Richard Gergel, "Unexampled Courage" (Sarah Cri...
Gergel connects the stories of Isaac Woodard, Harry Truman, and J. Waties Waring to illustrate how one incident fits into the larger history of civil rights...
88 min
1118
Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age o...
Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...
60 min
1119
Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evoluti...
Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”
54 min
1120
Joshua M. Myers, "We Are Worth Fighting For: A ...
Myers explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics....
40 min
1121
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (...
Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...
51 min
1122
Edward J. Robinson, "Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...
29 min
1123
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
1124
Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: Ho...
Maxwell shows exactly how and why progressives can lean into identity politics, empowering marginalized groups, and uniting under a common vision that will benefit us all...
72 min
1125
François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir"...
Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....
78 min