New Books in African American Studies

Interviews with Scholars of African America about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago...
Tell analyses acts of remembering Emmett following his brutal murder in the 1960s until the present day...
52 min
1227
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander...
"Integration Now" explores how studying the case Alexander v. Holmes (1969) enhances understandings of the history underlying school desegregation...
42 min
1228
Derrick E. White, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jak...
White chronicles the development of black college football in the twentieth century, and is among the first comprehensive histories of black college athletics...
66 min
1229
AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Ashley Farmer on "Ar...
What happens when particular groups of historians do not feel like they have full access to archival material?
32 min
1230
Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listenin...
Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...
66 min
1231
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1232
Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight fo...
Driskell traces the roots of black protest politics to early 20th century Atlanta and the fight for equal education...
43 min
1233
Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race a...
Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...
20 min
1234
Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James B...
Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...
61 min
1235
W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A T...
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..
41 min
1236
Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black F...
"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...
44 min
1237
Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southern...
Greta de Jong discusses rural organizing, social justice movements, and the connected histories of the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty in the US South...
31 min
1238
Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: ...
Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...
26 min
1239
Jared Hardesty, "Black Lives, Native Lands, Whi...
Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves...
70 min
1240
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1241
Brenna Wynn Greer, "Represented: The Black Imag...
Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...
64 min
1242
Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder...
Cox discusses what one murder case in 1930s Mississippi reveals about race relations, criminal justice, and life in the Jim Crow South...
33 min
1243
Steven White, "World War II and American Racial...
Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany
20 min
1244
Richard Bell, "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped...
"Stolen" tells the true story of how five young Black boys were kidnapped from Philadelphia in 1825...
45 min
1245
David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capi...
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...
20 min
1246
T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
58 min
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Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African Amer...
Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...
60 min
1248
Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, "Black British Mig...
Giovannetti-Torres focuses on the workers and their interactions with British colonial officials, American landowners and sugar producers, and local and national-level members of the Cuban government...
50 min
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Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military O...
This groundbreaking study of the post-surrender occupation makes clear that its purpose was to crush slavery and to create meaningful civil and political rights for freed people in the face of rebels’ bold resistance...
80 min
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Cécile Vidal, "Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, R...
Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...
55 min