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About Omari Averette-Phillips
Omari Averette-Phillips is a Ph.D. student in History at UC Davis. An (African) Americanist, his research focuses on Black engagement with political and labor organizations in the U.S. South during Reconstruction. His research explores the intersection of race, gender, politics, and labor.Omari Averette-Phillips is a doctoral student in the department of history at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com.
NBN Episodes hosted by Omari:
April 13, 2024
The Race for America
As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expand…
March 15, 2024
Shipwrecked
In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan…
February 23, 2024
Turn the World Upside Down
In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers…
February 9, 2024
The Geography of Hate
During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents deter…
January 26, 2024
Path to Grace
The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s, and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr…
December 3, 2023
Merze Tate
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite…
July 29, 2023
Colorblind Tools
In Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern UP, 2022), Marzia Milazzo offers a transnational account of anti-Blackness and …
July 15, 2023
The Fear of Too Much Justice
Glenn Ford, a Black man, spent thirty years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he did not commit. He was released in 2014—and given twenty dollars—w…
July 2, 2023
Isaac Murphy
Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the…
June 3, 2023
Workers of All Colors Unite
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costagu…
May 13, 2023
Black Queer Flesh
Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel (U Minnesota Press, 2021) reinterprets key African American novels from the Ha…
May 4, 2023
After Black Lives Matter
The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it …
April 15, 2023
Of Black Study
Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intelle…
March 15, 2023
Samuel Ringgold Ward
Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817–c. 1869) escaped enslavement and would become a leading figure in the struggle for B…
March 5, 2023
Violent Utopia
In Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Duke UP, 2022), Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa…
February 27, 2023
Fear of a Black Republic
The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander’s study …
February 19, 2023
Race in the Crucible of War
When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their milita…
February 10, 2023
Deflective Whiteness
In Deflective Whiteness: Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Ohio State UP, 2022), Hannah Noel repositions Whiteness studies in relation to c…
January 8, 2023
To Address You as My Friend
Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White…
December 18, 2022
Half American
Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregat…
December 6, 2022
Bodies Out of Place
Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society (U Georgia Press, 2022) asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be…
November 3, 2022
The Workings of Diaspora
Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty (Lexington Books, 2021) shows…
September 22, 2022
The Silent Shore
On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His g…
June 29, 2022
The Families' Civil War
The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice (U Georgia Press, 2022) tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americ…