New Books in African American Studies
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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
1202
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
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: Th...
Dunbar-Hester investigates how open-technology communities are considering the question of diversity and inclusion.
34 min
1204
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
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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
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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
1207
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
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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
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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
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Steven J. L. Taylor, "Exiles, Entrepreneurs, an...
Taylor explores the second wave of African American exiles or repatriates to Ghana in post-1980s...
54 min
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Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Viol...
Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...
64 min
1219
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Un...
Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...
62 min
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Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Ra...
Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...
27 min
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A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free...
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas?
49 min
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Shana Redmond, "Everything Man: The Form and Fu...
Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....
61 min
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Monika Gosin, "The Racial Politics of Division:...
Gosin reveals how differing notions of “worthy citizenship” encouraged interethnic conflict...
57 min
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Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theat...
Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...
59 min
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R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revol...
The authors draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project....
48 min