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History 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 …