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African American Studies
Interviews with scholars of African America about their new books.
October 19, 2024
Soul-Folk
Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-…
October 18, 2024
Some White Folks
There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Symp…
October 16, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth.…
October 8, 2024
Suspect Citizens
We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the st…
October 7, 2024
Black Expression and White Generosity
In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey thro…
October 3, 2024
Like Children
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (NYU Press, 2024) argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure an…
October 3, 2024
Black Woman on Board
Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Roche…
September 30, 2024
The Holocaust and New World Slavery
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world s…
September 25, 2024
The Black Tax
In The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U Chicago Press, 2024), Andrew W. Kahrl uncovers the history of ineq…
September 23, 2024
In Silence or Indifference
Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and s…
September 21, 2024
The Unseen Truth
In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans …
September 21, 2024
More Auspicious Shores
Caree A. Banton's book More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic (Cambridge UP, 2019) c…
September 20, 2024
A Different Trek
A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial pla…
September 19, 2024
Survival Is a Promise
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-ce…
September 15, 2024
Indefinite
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have b…
September 13, 2024
Paul Robeson's Voices
Paul Robeson's Voices (Oxford UP, 2023) is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage exami…
September 8, 2024
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is one of the most iconic jazz performers of all time. Her voice is certainly unmistakable but for many her religious sensibilities may…
September 7, 2024
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic …
September 7, 2024
Encyclopédie Noire
If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-M…
September 6, 2024
Me and My House
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” …