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African American Studies
Interviews with scholars of African America about their new books.
November 27, 2024
The End of Love
More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out “situationships.” When these men deign to articulate what …
November 26, 2024
This Abominable Slavery
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, M…
November 24, 2024
The Sentimental State
With The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024), Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik sh…
November 22, 2024
Blackdom, New Mexico
By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr. Timothy Nelson argues in his new book, the Black c…
November 21, 2024
Reluctant Race Men
Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing…
November 21, 2024
A Hudson Valley Reckoning
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family (Cornell University Press, 2024) tells the lo…
November 20, 2024
Walking East Harlem
They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including P…
November 19, 2024
Complicit Participation
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complic…
November 19, 2024
Brassroots Democracy
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orlean…
November 19, 2024
Developing Scholars
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institut…
November 18, 2024
Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison rec…
November 18, 2024
Higher Education for All
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college edu…
November 17, 2024
Self-Esteem
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self…
November 16, 2024
Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the m…
November 14, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson. Black resistance to white suprema…
November 9, 2024
Black Woman on Board
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024)…
November 6, 2024
Morningside
On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunshots ran…
November 3, 2024
Savings and Trust
In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hill Edwards exposes how the rise and tragic failure …
November 3, 2024
Living Off the Government?
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massi…
October 27, 2024
The End of College Football
In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential c…