New Books in African American Studies
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Sherrow O. Pinder et al., "Black Political Thou...
"Black Political Thought" is nuanced and long-needed anthology interrogates the “never ending issue” of the unequal positioning of black Americans...
101 min
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Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizensh...
Kamugisha reminds us of a Caribbean radical tradition that is fiercely critical of racism, middle-class complacencies and the incursions of neoliberalism...
58 min
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Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: B...
Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...
39 min
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Jill Strauss, "Slavery's Descendants: Shared Le...
The stories in "Slavery’s Descendants" deal with harrowing topics—rape, lynching, cruelty, shame—but they also describe acts of generosity,..
27 min
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Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated...
Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...
53 min
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Lynn M. Thomas, "Beneath the Surface: A Transna...
By 2024, global sales of skin lighteners are projected to reach more than $30 billion...
55 min
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Edward Onaci, "Free The Land: The Republic of N...
On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States...
53 min
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Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Afric...
Where do good ideas come from?
86 min
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H. Moore and J. Tracy, "No Fascist USA!" (City ...
Hilary Moore and James Tracy recounts the stories of fearless organizers and activists who created an anti-racist social movement that fought against the normalization of white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s...
66 min
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Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Bl...
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human...
55 min
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Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for C...
Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...
81 min
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
46 min
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Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright...
How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?
56 min
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Bharat Malkani, "Slavery and the Death Penalty:...
What is the connection between the movement for death penalty abolition and the anti-slavery movement?
29 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a...
“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."
54 min
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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
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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
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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...
43 min
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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
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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
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Forrest Stuart, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, D...
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power?
61 min
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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
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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
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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