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About Adam McNeil

Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Adam:

African American Studies June 16, 2021

When Sunday Comes

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Claudrena N. Harold

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel, When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras …
African American Studies May 19, 2021

Armed in the Great Swamp

Fear, Maroon Insurrection, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp

Kathryn Benjamin Golden

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In 2021, we are inundated with daily images of racial terror, state violence, and technologies of punishment showing pictures of broken down, beleaguered, and deceased Black people’s bodies, especially …
African American Studies April 26, 2021

Fugitive Pedagogy

Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

Jarvis R. Givens

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam McNeil. On today’s podcast, I am interviewing Dr. Jarvis R …
African American Studies April 23, 2021

Economy Hall

The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

Fatima Shaik

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Fatima Shaik's book Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood (Historic New Orleans Collections, 2021) tells the story of the Sociâetâe d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle, a New Orleans …
African American Studies April 22, 2021

At the Threshold of Liberty

Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.

Tamika Y. Nunley

Hosted by Adam McNeil
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing …
African American Studies February 1, 2021

Roundtable on W. E. B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935)

A Discussion with Hilary N. Green, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, and Robert Greene II

W. E. B. Du Bois

Hosted by Adam McNeil
I am delighted to have y’all listen to the conversation I had with three of my favorite historians in all the dad-gum world. January 2021 has been a wild one …
African American Studies January 22, 2021

Careers

A Discussion with Dorothy Berry, DIgital Archivist

Dorothy Berry

Hosted by Adam McNeil
On today’s podcast, I am chatting with Dorothy Berry, Houghton Library's Digital Collections Program Manager. In it, we discuss why she became an archivist, what digital archivists do, and about the great …
African American Studies January 18, 2021

Careers

A Discussion with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Political Scientist

Charisse Burden-Stelly

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Today on New Books in African American Studies I am chatting with Carleton College Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. Dr. Burden-Stelly is a critical Black …
African American Studies December 31, 2020

Silencing the Past

Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam McNeil. On today’s podcast, we will celebrate the 25th anniversary …
African American Studies December 28, 2020

The Haitians

A Decolonial History

Jean Casimir

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In The Haitians: A Decolonial History (UNC Press, 2020), leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as …
African American Studies December 16, 2020

Vanguard

How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Martha S. Jones

Hosted by Adam McNeil
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power-and how it transformed America In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended …
African American Studies November 20, 2020

Bind Us Apart

How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

Nicholas Guyatt

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”? Racism is the usual answer. Yet Nicholas Guyatt argues …
African American Studies November 6, 2020

Between Fitness and Death

Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean

Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity …
African American Studies November 5, 2020

Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery

Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

John Garrison Marks

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged …
African American Studies September 10, 2020

Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery' (UPenn Press, 2004)

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host Adam McNeil. Today is part 2 of my discussion about Dr …
African American Studies September 9, 2020

Laboring Women

Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Jennifer L. Morgan

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In 2004, Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan’s Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press) was published. Sixteen years later, Morgan’s Laboring Women stands tall as …
African American Studies August 28, 2020

Wicked Flesh

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

Jessica Marie Johnson

Hosted by Adam McNeil
The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of …
Biography August 24, 2020

A Discussion with J. T. Roane on Writing African American Lives

J. T. Roane

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host, Adam McNeil. Today on the podcast I have the honor of …
Literary Studies July 7, 2020

Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection

Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion

Matthew J. Pettway

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors …
General History June 24, 2020

Becoming Free, Becoming Black

Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross

Hosted by Adam McNeil
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge University Press, 2020) tells the story of enslaved …
African American Studies June 12, 2020

Those Who Know Don't Say

The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State

Garrett Felber

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the post-war Black Freedom Movement. In his new book Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and …
Intellectual History June 9, 2020

Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Africana and AfroAm Studies

A Discussion with Adam McNeil

Neil Roberts

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Where do good ideas come from? How does an idea go from creation to a research project? How is historical research done? And how does research find its way into …
Literary Studies June 8, 2020

Being Property Once Myself

Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Bennett

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press, 2020) …
General History May 28, 2020

Presumed Criminal

Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York

Carl Suddler

Hosted by Adam McNeil
A stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When …