New Books in African American Studies
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Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers...
52 min
1402
Amy Murrell Taylor, "Embattled Freedom: Journey...
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy...
58 min
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Quincy D. Newell, "Your Sister in the Gospel: T...
A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...
52 min
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Derrick Spires, "The Practice of Citizenship: B...
In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship...
49 min
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Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness...
In Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael worked with a group of white teachers to inquire about race and schooling...
69 min
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J Mase III, "And Then I Got Fired: One Transque...
J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...
28 min
1407
Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, "Blac...
Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States...
55 min
1408
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the J...
The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...
40 min
1409
Ernest McGowen III, "African Americans in White...
Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resources--but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or elected officials who share their concerns....
21 min
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Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photograp...
In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...
49 min
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Andra Gillespie, "Race and the Obama Administra...
Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...
23 min
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Anand Prahlad, "The Secret Life of a Black Aspi...
Anand Prahlad was born on a former plantation in Virginia in 1954. This memoir, vividly internal, powerfully lyric, and brilliantly impressionistic, is his story...
56 min
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Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critica...
Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...
49 min
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Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race,...
In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...
75 min
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Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, “Muslim Cool: Race, Religi...
Islam in American has been profoundly shaped by the Black Muslim experience...
65 min
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Michael A. Schoeppner, "Moral Contagion: Black ...
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers...
51 min
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LaTanya McQueen, "And It Begins Like This" (Bla...
Today, I spoke with LaTanya McQueen, whose new collection of essays reckons with intriguing and timely questions about history, race, family, place, and self...
47 min
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Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black I...
Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...
43 min
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Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War...
Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers...
46 min
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Prope...
Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...
58 min
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Brooke Newman, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race...
In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens?
63 min
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Candis Watts Smith, "Black Politics in Transiti...
Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...
20 min
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Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and t...
Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...
41 min
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I. Gould Ellen and J. Steil, "The Dream Revisit...
Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?
56 min
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Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy...
Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices...
45 min