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NBN Episodes hosted by James:
October 19, 2017
The Illustrated Slave
Slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of the transatlantic world for centuries. Scholars have examined var…
October 16, 2017
Prison Power
In the black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics an…
October 6, 2017
The Port Chicago 50
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks…
October 3, 2017
African Americans Against the Bomb
For the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement (Stanford University Press, 2015)…
September 13, 2017
Underground Airlines
Underground Airlines (Mulholland Books, 2016) is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like…
September 11, 2017
Masterless Men
Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Masterless Men: Poor Whites in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017) reveals what h…
September 7, 2017
Katherine Dunham
By drawing on a vast, never-utilized trove of archival materials along with oral histories, choreographic analysis, and embodied research, Katherine D…
August 28, 2017
Theorizing Race in the Americas
In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist lead…
August 23, 2017
First Martyr of Liberty
First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory (Oxford University Press, 2017) explores how Crispus Attucks' death in the 1770 Boston Mas…
July 25, 2017
The Man-Not
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press, 2017) is a book-length justification for the burgeoning f…
July 20, 2017
Congo Love Song
In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's tit…
July 13, 2017
Blue Texas
Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) is about the "other" T…
June 23, 2017
Through Darkness to Light
When the Sun comes back And the first quail calls Follow the Drinkin' Gourd. For the old man is a-waiting for to carry you to freedom If y…
June 14, 2017
Mainstreaming Black Power
What is Black Power? Does it still exist in the so-called post-racial 21st Century? How does Black Power relate to similar movements, like Black Lives…
June 8, 2017
Fighting for Uncle Sam
From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nation's defense. Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Sol…
May 27, 2017
A Pure Solar World
The legendary band leader Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on Earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form …
May 26, 2017
Fugitive Science
Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early Afric…
May 19, 2017
Making Gullah
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) is a wide-ranging history …
May 16, 2017
Connecting the Wire
Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002-2008) is a landmark event in television history,…
April 26, 2017
In the Name of the Mother
In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen (Dartmouth, 2017) emphas…
April 18, 2017
Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies
Do you love Rock and Roll or is Rock and Roll music dead? Are you old enough to have put any money in a jukebox to hear your favorite song, watched Am…
April 12, 2017
Remixing Reggaeton
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Regga…
April 5, 2017
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
A profoundly humane look at an inhumane institution, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Buildin…
March 29, 2017
The World of Shaft
Who's the black private dick That's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft) Ya damn right Who is the man that would risk his neck For his broth…