New Books in African American Studies
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: ...
Dollinger challenges widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance in American politics...
26 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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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
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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
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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
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David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capi...
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...
20 min
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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
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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
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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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Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwe...
Musselwhite challenges the conventional view of the Chesapeake as a rural society of tobacco and slavery that prevented the development of towns and cities...
30 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
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Remi Joseph-Salisbury, "Black Mixed-Race Men: T...
Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...
44 min
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A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Du...
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...
42 min
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Ra...
"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...
49 min
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Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Camp...
Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...
35 min
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Ashanté M. Reese, "Black Food Geographies: Race...
Reese examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food...
50 min
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Claudia Leal, "Landscapes of Freedom: Building ...
Leal narrates the unknown history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia...
63 min
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Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black Sout...
In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius...
60 min
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Scott Heerman, "The Alchemy of Slavery: Human B...
Heerman examines how slavery and emancipation developed in the Illinois Country from the 18th Century through the 19th Century...
52 min