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About Adam McNeil
Adam Xavier McNeil, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. In Fall 2026, McNeil will join the American Studies faculty at the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor of American Studies.NBN Episodes hosted by Adam:
March 23, 2026
Archival Irruptions
In 1760, following the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Empire, the Afro-Caribbean word Obeah first appeared in British colonial…
January 10, 2026
Freedom Enterprise
The Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the US South between 1910 and 1970. Though the experiences of migrant laborers a…
September 26, 2025
Captive Cosmopolitans
From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every…
September 9, 2025
Enslaved Archives
Explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States. It is extraordi…
August 23, 2025
Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution
Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution (LSU Press, 2024) unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Co…
August 6, 2025
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth. It can hardly be said that scholars have neglected Douglass; indeed, he is one…
November 29, 2024
Laundering Black Rage
Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits (Routledge, 2024) examines the dilution and commodification of Black …
December 28, 2023
James Baldwin and the 1980s
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in …
November 22, 2023
Phenomenology of Black Spirit
In Phenomenology of Black Spirit (Edinburgh UP, 2023), Ryan Johnson and Biko Mandela Gray study the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spir…
October 13, 2023
Invisible No More
Since its founding in 1801, African Americans have played an integral, if too often overlooked, role in the history of the University of South Carolin…
September 22, 2023
Before Busing
In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and …
September 3, 2023
I Saw Death Coming
The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in…
August 20, 2023
Becoming Justice Thomas
On today’s podcast, we are changing things up a bit. Instead of interviewing the author of a recent book, I am interviewing another podcaster about th…
June 4, 2023
Dark Agoras
In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities …
April 18, 2023
The Hated Cage
After the War of 1812, more than five thousand American sailors were marooned in Dartmoor Prison on a barren English plain; the conflict was over but …
April 8, 2023
My Soul Is a Witness
In My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching (Yale UP, 2023), Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South thro…
February 2, 2023
Almost Dead
Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in th…
January 31, 2023
Dismal Freedom
The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early sev…
November 25, 2022
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist…
November 23, 2022
Black Bodies, White Gold
In Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Duke UP, 2021), Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central t…
September 9, 2022
Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
Today's episode of "New Books in African American Studies" is special. Why, you might ask? Because today's episode marks my 100th episode on the NBN! …
July 29, 2022
Black Majority
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a podcast channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam Xavier McNeil. Today’s podcast is s…
June 23, 2022
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2021) provides a multidisc…
March 17, 2022
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America (University of Illinois Press, 2020) reveals the previously hidden imp…