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African American Studies
Interviews with scholars of African American and Black studies about their new books.
May 30, 2026
Jefferson on Race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’…
May 30, 2026
Ladder or Lottery
In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reader a simple…
May 29, 2026
Nourishing Networks
For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echo…
May 29, 2026
The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrigue…
May 28, 2026
The Door of No Return
In The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black (Temple University Press, 2026), Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy …
May 28, 2026
The Instigators
Black women have always been the most relentless instigators for change—building a democracy for all. In The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Es…
May 27, 2026
Segregation Games
A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play When outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox i…
May 25, 2026
Stories of Struggle
In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…
May 24, 2026
Reverberations of Culture
Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns (Routledge, 2026) by Dr. Shane Br…
May 23, 2026
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence
Mary Freeman, associate professor of history at the University of Maine, joins Michael Stauch to discuss her new book Abolitionists and the Politics o…
May 23, 2026
Take Freedom
In 1822, Black Charlestonians attempted to overthrow slavery. They were exposed before they could strike, and many were tried and executed in what…
May 22, 2026
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and …
May 19, 2026
The Overseer Class
“The poor, of whatever color, do not trust the law and certainly have no reason to, and God knows we didn't. ‘If you must call a cop,’ we said in thos…
May 18, 2026
Fear and Fury
Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage (Pantheon, 2026) recou…
May 17, 2026
Mississippi Law
Justin Randolph, assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, joins Michael Stauch to discuss Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in Ameri…
May 13, 2026
From Black Power to Black Studies
The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential politica…
May 12, 2026
The War Within a War
Award-winning author Wil Haygood joins Michael Stauch to discuss The War within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home (Knopf, 2026) his new…
May 12, 2026
Act Black
Starting in the 1880s, Black performers, and those invested in telling stories centering Black people, attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harmf…
May 11, 2026
Black Muslim Freedom Dreams
Samiha Rahman’s Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care (New York University Press, 2026) follows three ge…
May 9, 2026
Terror, Hope, & Exodus
May 5, 2026—In March 1880, an extraordinary American traveled to Washington, DC, to testify before a Senate committee investigating the exodus of form…