New Books in African American Studies
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
1427
Kellie Carter Jackson, "Force and Freedom: Blac...
"Force and Freedom" explores why for many Black abolitionists, slavery could only be obliterated through violent means.
55 min
1428
Andrew T. Fede, "Homicide Justified: The Legali...
Professor Fede’s account traces the variations in restrictions on slave owners and third parties’ treatment upon the murder of a slave.
53 min
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland, "A Political Education:...
By highlighting the activism of local Black women and Black teachers, Todd-Breland uncovers hidden histories of how Black women have been at the forefront of this fight from the 1960s to the present...
64 min
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Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens: A Histor...
Jones weaves together the legal and constitutional dimensions of citizenship...
51 min
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Ronald L. Lewis and Robert L. Zangrando, "Walte...
Though overshadowed today by more celebrated figures, Walter Francis White was one of the most prominent campaigners for civil rights in mid-20th-century America...
79 min
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Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a W...
The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...
58 min
1433
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
58 min
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Adrienne Brown, "The Black Skyscraper: Architec...
In this bold and deeply interdisciplinary work, Brown demonstrates the centrality of race to modern architectural design...
74 min
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Bianca Williams, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Bla...
Bianca Williams offers her readers a different starting point by asking: What about Black women’s experiences of happiness, pleasure, leisure, desire...
40 min
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Debra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Tra...
This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...
50 min
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Micah McCrary, "Island in the City" (U Nebraska...
As a black and queer-identifying man, McCrary examines these identities through keen exploration of gender, sexuality, race, class, geography, and more...
43 min
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Elliott J. Gorn, "Let the People See: The Story...
The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...
45 min
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Calvin Schermerhorn, "Unrequited Toil: A Histor...
Writing a synthesis on the history American Slavery is quite a job. Calvin Schermerhorn, though, has done a wonderful job of it.
56 min
1440
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris, "Sexuality...
Scholarly interest in the institution of American slavery is enjoying a kind of resurgence...
59 min
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Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Amer...
Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.
40 min
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Ashley D. Farmer, "New Perspectives of the Blac...
The field of African American intellectual history is enjoying a kind of renaissance at the moment...
48 min
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Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...
55 min
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William D. Green, "The Children of Lincoln: Whi...
Dr. William Green investigates this statement in a case-study of four whites from Minnesota who fought hard and won rights for black Americans during and after the Civil War...
56 min
1445
Michael Fischbach, "Black Power and Palestine: ...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century...
58 min
1446
Maurice J. Hobson, "The Legend of the Black Mec...
Dr. Maurice J. Hobson’s new book delves into the tremendously rich history of Atlanta...
69 min
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Laura McEnaney, "Postwar: Waging Peace in Chica...
When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined...
32 min
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Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American ...
New York City might have been the epicenter of the twentieth century American art scene, but Los Angeles was no slouch either...
46 min
1449
James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story...
This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production.
36 min
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Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Loc...
Segregation by Design draws on a century of data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments design policies that create race and class segregation...
22 min