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About Adam McNeil
Adam McNeil
is a third year Ph.D. in History student at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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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 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) …
African American Studies
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 …
African American Studies
May 19, 2020
John Hervey Wheeler
Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights
Brandon K. Winford
Hosted by Adam McNeil
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for …
African American Studies
April 28, 2020
Slavery and the University
Histories and Legacies
Leslie M. Harris
Hosted by Adam McNeil
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of …
African American Studies
April 7, 2020
Tacky's Revolt
The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Vincent Brown
Hosted by Adam McNeil
In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while …
African American Studies
March 9, 2020
AfroAm Studies Roundtable
Robert Greene and Tyler Parry on Becoming Historians
Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry
Hosted by Adam McNeil
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent …
African American Studies
February 21, 2020
Hiding in Plain Sight
Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
Erika Denise Edwards
Hosted by Adam McNeil
Argentina promotes itself as a country of European immigrants. This makes it an exception to other Latin American countries, which embrace a more mixed—African, Indian, European—heritage. Hiding in Plain Sight …
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