New Books in African American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of African America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
1151
Kathryn H. Ross, "Black Was Not a Label" (Pront...
Ross is a writer of humanness, one who finds more interest in what we feel than theme...
33 min
1152
Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth a...
Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...
62 min
1153
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Figh...
Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...
44 min
1154
Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black...
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders...
76 min
1155
Natasha J. Lightfoot, "Troubling Freedom: Antig...
Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans and Barbudans experienced freedom in the immediate years before and decades after British emancipation in 1834...
71 min
1156
Forrest Stuart, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, D...
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power?
61 min
1157
Kenesha N. Grant, "The Great Migration and the ...
Grant analyses the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, and how this changed the political dynamics in many of the places where African Americans settled and built new lives...
49 min
1158
Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Poli...
Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...
64 min
1159
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African Am...
Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...
42 min
1160
Le’Trice D. Donaldson, "Duty Beyond the Battlef...
Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters...
71 min
1161
Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrica...
Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,
52 min
1162
Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turn...
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 two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...
65 min
1163
Mary Stanton, "Red, Black, White: The Alabama C...
Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.
35 min
1164
Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculi...
Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”
59 min
1165
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promis...
Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...
45 min
1166
Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, "Steadfast ...
White and Laird explore the political behavior of African American voters in the United States...
41 min
1167
Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an...
Brown expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today....
61 min
1168
Jeff Forret, "William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave...
Forret explores the career of prominent slave trader William H. Williams, whose operation was based in Washington DC...
47 min
1169
Paula C. Austin, "Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC:...
Austin's book is not only a history of black youth in Washington D.C. in the 1930s but also a history of social science thought as illustrated in the work of scholars such as sociologists E. Franklin Frazier and William H. Jones...
39 min
1170
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1171
Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in th...
Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...
30 min
1172
Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories...
Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...
54 min
1173
Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and ...
Nevius tells the interrelated histories of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina...
107 min
1174
Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the ...
Dew treats his readers to a riveting and often counterintuitive account of the interaction of law, race, and citizenship in the discourses of the Moorish Science Temple and other movements inspired by Noble Drew Ali...
76 min
1175
Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert:...
Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...
44 min