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Malcolm X and Black Nationalism
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January 19, 2021
Dividing the Faith
The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North
Richard J. Boles
Hosted by Lane Davis
In Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North (NYU Press, 2020), Richard J. Boles argues that, contrary to traditional American religious historiography, interracial worship was …
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African American Studies
January 18, 2021
Careers
A Discussion with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Political Scientist
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Hosted by Adam McNeil
Today on New Books in African American Studies I am chatting with Carleton College Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. Dr. Burden-Stelly is a critical Black …
Intellectual History
January 18, 2021
Hubert Harrison
The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927
Jeffrey B. Perry
Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black …
Art
January 15, 2021
The Life and Art of Felrath Hines
From Dark to Light
Rachel Berenson Perry
Hosted by Kirstin Ellsworth
Today I talked to Rachel Berenson Perry about her book The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light (Indiana University Press, 2019). Felrath Hines (1913–1993), the first African American man to …
History
January 15, 2021
Down the Up Staircase
Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Bruce Haynes and Syma Solovitch
Hosted by Tyesha Maddox
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (Columbia UP, 2019) tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and …
Third World Nationalism
January 12, 2021
Indonesian Notebook
A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference
Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is a Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the left, in …
African American Studies
January 8, 2021
The Scholar and the Struggle
Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power
David A. Varel
Hosted by James West
One of the most notable African American intellectuals of his generation, Lawrence Reddick helped to spearhead the early Black history movement, served as the second curator of the Schomburg Library …
Anthropology
January 5, 2021
Black Lives and Spatial Matters
Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis
Jodi Rios
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, space, and racism, in …
Latin American Studies
January 4, 2021
Taxing Blackness
Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
Norah L. A. Gharala
Hosted by Rachel Newman
During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and …
African American Studies
December 31, 2020
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Hosted by Adam McNeil
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam McNeil. On today’s podcast, we will celebrate the 25th anniversary …
Caribbean Studies
December 29, 2020
Blood on the River
A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Marjoleine Kars
Hosted by Sharika Crawford
In Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (New Press, 2020), historian Marjoleine Kars tells the story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch …
African American Studies
December 28, 2020
The Haitians
A Decolonial History
Jean Casimir
Hosted by Adam McNeil
In The Haitians: A Decolonial History (UNC Press, 2020), leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as …
Third World Nationalism
December 23, 2020
Scripts of Blackness
Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
Isar P. Godreau
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is part of our Special Series on Third World Nationalism. In the wake of a rise in nationalism around the world, and its general condemnation by liberals and the left, in …
African American Studies
December 22, 2020
Pleasure in the News
African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press
Kim T. Gallon
Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020), Dr. Kim Gallon examines how Black newspaper editors and journalists created and fostered …
LGBTQ+ Studies
December 22, 2020
The Lonely Letters
Ashon T. Crawley
Hosted by John Marszalek
In The Lonely Letters (Duke UP, 2020), A tells Moth: “Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because …
African American Studies
December 16, 2020
Vanguard
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
Hosted by Adam McNeil
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power-and how it transformed America In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended …
Gender Studies
December 16, 2020
Never Caught
The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Hosted by Christina Gessler
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Simon and Schuster, 2017) is the powerful narrative of Ona …
Intellectual History
December 14, 2020
Groove Theory
The Blues Foundation of Funk
Tony Bolden
Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) by Tony Bolden, an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas, and …
History
December 14, 2020
The World Colonization Made
The Racial Geography of Early American Empire
Brandon Mills
Hosted by Derek Litvak
Brandon Mills is the author of The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2020. The World Colonization Made …
Science, Technology, and Society
December 11, 2020
Sensory Experiments
Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
Erica Fretwell
Hosted by Chad Valasek
We so often take our senses as natural, but perhaps we should understand them as historically situated. Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke University Press, 2020) allows us …
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