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African American Studies November 26, 2017

Reading with Patrick

A Teacher, A Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Michelle Kuo

Hosted by Angela Hooks
It takes courage to walk into a classroom when students don't look like you. It takes courage to return every day to teach a class when students devalue education. Media …
African American Studies September 7, 2017

Chasing Down a Dream

A Blessings Novel (Book 8)

Beverly Jenkins

Hosted by Angela Hooks
The Blessings Series continue with a heartwarming novel, Chasing Down a Dream (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017), about what makes a family when trials test relationships. And in Henry Adams, Kansas …
African American Studies August 29, 2017

Conjuring Freedom

Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's 'Gospel Army'

Johari Jabir

Hosted by Angela Hooks
What is the labor for Black soldiers of the regiment? That is the question Johari Jabir asks in his book Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel …
African American Studies August 26, 2017

Bricktop's Paris

African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Hosted by Angela Hooks
When Dorothy Sterling wrote her book about nineteenth-century black women in America, she stated in the introduction that the book was not a definitive history of black women but a …
African American Studies July 19, 2017

A Lucent Fire

New and Collected Poems

Patricia Spears Jones

Hosted by Angela Hooks
Jackson Poetry Prize Winner Speaks Patricia Spears Jones has been writing poetry since she was twenty and then she was "good." Today, the prolific poet is the winner of one …
African American Studies June 27, 2017

Ruth's Redemption

Marlene Banks

Hosted by Angela Hooks
It's A Love Story. Set in the 1800s, Ruth's Redemption (Lift Every Voice, 2012), is an unusual depiction of the lives of slaves and free blacks in pre-Civil War America …
African American Studies June 20, 2017

Jaybird's Song

A Novel

Kathy Wilson Florence

Hosted by Angela Hooks
Josie Flint, known as Jaybird, narrates her story of life in Atlanta during the turbulent South as Jim Crow laws come to an end. Her school desegregates. The country meanders …
African American Studies April 29, 2017

Primary Lessons

A Memoir

Sarah Bracey White

Hosted by Angela Hooks
As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before …
African American Studies April 5, 2017

Son of A Preacher Man &amp

Marlene Banks

Hosted by Angela Hooks
The tragic Tulsa Race Riots plus a smidgeon of romance equals to a compelling historical saga. Marlene Banks weaves fact and fiction together illustrating how law and culture may change …
African American Studies March 29, 2017

Divas on the Screen

Black Women in American Film

Mia Mask

Hosted by Angela Hooks
Five charismatic women navigate uneven terrain of racial gender and class stereotypes: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Halle Berry. The quintet charisma, as explored by Dr …
African American Studies March 25, 2017

Cutting Along the Color Line

Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America

Quincy T. Mills

Hosted by Angela Hooks
Business. Community. Politics. That's the making of a barbershop. In Cutting Along the Color Lines: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), Dr. Quincy Mills …