About Anna Lindner

Anna (Ph.D., Communication) is a critical/cultural communication historian. Her dissertation, titled Crying Conspiracy: White Discourses on Black Rebellion in Spanish Colonial Cuba, 1832-1845, uses rhetorical analysis to assess the language Spanish administrators used in their official letters, reports, and news publications to stereotype and blame enslaved and free Black Cubans. Her other research interests include formations of cultural identity, racialized linguistics and education, intersectional feminisms and queer studies, critical whiteness studies, and racial justice activism. Anna has been a part of the Wayne State Media History research team, which investigates the rhetoric of nineteenth-century US, Caribbean, and Latin American newspapers, since 2019. In addition, she has been a member of the Antiracist Language and Literacy Practices research team, which conducts university-wide studies on race, culture, and language practices of students and faculty, since 2020. Her recent work includes a collaborative essay, "'If Ever Saints Wept and Hell Rejoiced, It Must Have Been Over the Passage of That Law': The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in Detroit River Borderland Newspapers, 1851-1852" [https://doi.org/10.1080/009476...], published by Journalism History, and an essay on queer identity and post-racialism in the Netflix series Sense8, published by Visual Communication Quarterly.

Anna E. Lindner (Ph.D., Communication) is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Wayne State University. On Twitter.

NBN Episodes hosted by Anna:

Lehasa Moloi, "Developing Africa?: New Horizons with Afrocentricity" (Anthem Press, 2024)

February 12, 2024

Developing Africa?

Lehasa Moloi
Hosted by Anna Lindner

Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity (Anthem Press, 2024) is written for those who are interested in theoretical debates as they relate…

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

November 12, 2023

Making the Latino South

Cecilia Márquez
Hosted by Anna Lindner

The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A History…

Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture" (U Florida Press, 2023)

October 15, 2023

Cuba and Puerto Rico

Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany
Hosted by Anna Lindner

Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany's edited volume Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture (U Florida…

Jenna N. Hanchey, "The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO" (Duke UP, 2023)

August 29, 2023

The Center Cannot Hold

Jenna N. Hanchey
Hosted by Anna Lindner
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In The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO (Duke UP, 2023), Jenna N. Hanchey examines the decolonial potenti…

Penelope Ingram, "Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in 'Postracial' America" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

July 26, 2023

Imperiled Whiteness

Penelope Ingram
Hosted by Anna Lindner
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In Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America (University Press of Mississippi, 2023), Penelope Ingram examines th…

Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

March 27, 2023

Fear of a Black Republic

Leslie M. Alexander
Hosted by Anna Lindner

The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's study …

Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)

February 19, 2023

White Sight

Nicholas Mirzoeff
Hosted by Anna Lindner

From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy i…

Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)

January 14, 2023

Racial Innocence

Tanya Katerí Hernández
Hosted by Anna Lindner

Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press, 2022) will challenge what you thought about racism and…

Kaiama L. Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke UP, 2021)

January 13, 2023

A Regarded Self

Kaiama L. Glover
Hosted by Anna Lindner

In A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP, 2021), Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who …

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)

December 25, 2022

The Philosophy of Marronage

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz
Hosted by Anna Lindner

Pedro Lebrón Ortiz's book The Philosophy of Marronage (Filosofía del cimarronaje) theorizes the broader context behind the notion of "cimarronaje," ma…

Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

November 1, 2022

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

Sarah Quesada
Hosted by Anna Lindner

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2022) unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx…

Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

October 26, 2022

Against Marginalization

Jose O. Fernandez
Hosted by Anna Lindner

In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Press, 2022), Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aes…

Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)

September 8, 2022

Translating Blackness

Lorgia García Peña
Hosted by Anna Lindner

In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke University Press, 2022), Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a …

Louis M. Maraj, "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics" (Utah State UP, 2020)

June 14, 2022

Black or Right

Louis M. Maraj
Hosted by Anna Lindner

Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics (Utah State University Press, 2020) explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly edu…