New Books in African American Studies
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Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their ...
"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”
71 min
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Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and ...
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape of New York City?
35 min
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Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: B...
Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...
69 min
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Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregati...
Suitts examines the parallels between de facto segregationist practices and the modern school choice movement...
28 min
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Peter Cole, "Dockworker Power: Race and Activis...
Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...
66 min
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Great Books: Emily Bernard on Larsen's "Passing"
Larsen examines the American mythology of race, and its real-world effects,..
62 min
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adrienne maree brown, "Pleasure Activism: The P...
brown defines pleasure activism as “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusions, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy”...
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Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, "Denmark Vese...
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Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indie...
Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...
78 min
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Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty W...
Roberts talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era...
35 min
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Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Rel...
Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...
41 min
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New...
In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...
61 min
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SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Repre...
Stewart examines the history behind the collection of more than 2,300 narratives from formerly enslaved people, as part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project...
70 min
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Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: ...
Boyles provides vivid ethnographic work and in-depth interviews from the Ferguson protests...
59 min
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Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diploma...
In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,
57 min
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Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: Georg...
Smith shows that from his upbringing in Houston’s Fifth Ward to his role as a spokesman for the Foreman Grill, Foreman always fought to redefine himself along with the times...
58 min
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Adrienne Petty, "Standing Their Ground: Small F...
Petty discusses the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
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Great Books: Rich Blint on James Baldwin's "Ano...
James Baldwin's appeal and admonition ring as true as they did in the 1960s, when the novelist became the nation's conscience...
63 min
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Ra...
Thomas dives into the question of, why magical stories are written for some people and not for others...
63 min
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Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A His...
Cameron offers a precise and nuanced history of African American secularism from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century...
45 min
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John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: I...
Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?
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Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor White...
Merritt discusses the intersections of race, class, politics, and slavery in the pre-Civil War South....
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Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African A...
Byrd examines the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th Century...
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