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About Amanda Joyce Hall

Amanda Joyce Hall is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Department of African American Studies. She's on Twitter @amandajoycehall.

NBN Episodes hosted by Amanda:

African American Studies November 17, 2023

Black Scare / Red Scare

Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

Charisse Burden-Stelly

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans’ fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what social, economic …
African American Studies February 11, 2023

Claude McKay

The Making of a Black Bolshevik

Winston James

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. McKay’s …
African American Studies December 29, 2022

The Future of Black Studies

Abdul Alkalimat

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it exists, is a powerful, boundary-pushing discipline, grown out of struggle …
African American Studies December 20, 2022

Pasifika Black

Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World

Quito Swan

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and immensely significant historical phenomena. Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World (NYU Press, 2022) is a compelling …
African Studies November 21, 2022

Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn

African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation

Dawne Y. Curry

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Dawne Y. Curry’s Social Justice at Apartheid’s Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), which examines the role of African women in the conversation …
African American Studies October 4, 2022

Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Sarah F. Derbew

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted …
African American Studies May 10, 2022

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

An Artist's Reckoning with the South

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South (UNC Press, 2022), Glenda Gilmore meticulously documents and interprets the artistic life of Romare Bearden …
African American Studies March 17, 2022

Thomas Sankara

A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa

Brian J. Peterson

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa (Indiana University Press, 2021) by Brian J. Peterson is a thoroughly researched biography of Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso …
African American Studies December 13, 2021

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Davarian L Baldwin

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021) by Dr. Davarian Baldwin examines the political economy of the American university over …
African American Studies November 17, 2021

Blackening Britain

Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization

James G. Cantres

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period of decolonization in the British …
African American Studies July 6, 2021

America on Fire

The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since The 1960s

Elizabeth Hinton

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellions since the 1960s (Liveright, 2021) Dr. Elizabeth Hinton asserts the significance of Black rebellions in post-civil rights America …
African American Studies March 23, 2021

Shelter in a Time of Storm

How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

Jelani M. Favors

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) by Dr. Jelani Favors fills the “missing pages” of history by …
African American Studies February 23, 2021

Liner Notes for the Revolution

The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Daphne A. Brooks

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University Press, 2021) by Dr. Daphne Brooks is a lyrical masterpiece that takes readers on an exhilarating …
African American Studies December 22, 2020

Pleasure in the News

African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press

Kim T. Gallon

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020), Dr. Kim Gallon examines how Black newspaper editors and journalists created and fostered …
African American Studies December 4, 2020

Pauulu's Diaspora

Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice

Quito J. Swan

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020) by Quito Swan is an enchanting, magisterial, broadly researched monograph that illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across …
African American Studies October 20, 2020

Exporting Jim Crow

Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond

Chinua Thelwell

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as …
African American Studies August 19, 2020

In This Land of Plenty

Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics

Benjamin Talton

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press) by Benjamin Talton is a transnational history that explores the influence of African American …
African American Studies June 18, 2020

Franchise

The Golden Arches in Black America

Marcia Chatelain

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright, 2020) by Marcia Chatelain is a fascinating examination of the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where …
African American Studies June 12, 2020

No Fascist USA!

The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Social Movements

H. Moore and J. Tracy

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Social Movements (City Lights Publishing, 2020) by Hilary Moore and James Tracy recounts the stories of fearless organizers …
African American Studies May 4, 2020

Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa

Anne Heffernan

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Anne Heffernan's new book Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa (James Currey, 2019) a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in …
African American Studies February 19, 2020

Dockworker Power

Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area

Peter Cole

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press, 2018) is a fascinating, densely researched account of dockworkers and their organized responses …