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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 in Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (Basic Books, 2016) that white liberals from the founding to the Civil War were not confident racists, but tortured reformers conscious of the damage that racism would do to the …
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 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 …
African American Studies 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 …
African American Studies 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 …
African Studies 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) …