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About James West
Historian of race, media and business in the modern United States and Black diaspora. Author of "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (Illinois, 2020), "A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago" (Illinois, 2022), "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. (Massachusetts, 2022).James West is a historian of race, media and business in the modern United States and Black diaspora. Author of "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (Illinois, 2020), "A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago" (Illinois, 2022), "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. (Massachusetts, 2022).
NBN Episodes hosted by James:
July 18, 2023
Popularizing the Past
In this lively and far-reaching text, Nick Witham (University College London) tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinar…
April 22, 2023
Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
In this episode, Thomas Aiello joins E. James West to discuss Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspa…
November 7, 2022
Dream Books and Gamblers
Ubiquitous illegal lotteries known as policy flourished in Chicago's Black community during the overlapping waves of the Great Migration. Policy "quee…
August 5, 2022
Living the Dream
Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (UNC Press, 2022) tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther Ki…
January 31, 2022
Pushing Cool
Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store…
September 10, 2021
The Life and Times of Louis Lomax
In The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity (Duke University Press, 2021), Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinati…
August 18, 2021
Watergate's Forgotten Hero
In his new book, Watergate's Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night-Watchman (McFarland & Co., 2021), Adam Henig sheds new light on a widely forgotten but…
January 8, 2021
The Scholar and the Struggle
One of the most notable African American intellectuals of his generation, Lawrence Reddick helped to spearhead the early Black history movement, serve…
November 9, 2020
That Middle World
In this chronologically and thematically ambitious study of racial passing literature, Julia Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultura…
September 2, 2020
Ten Days in Harlem
In his new book Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s (Faber, 2020), Simon Hall, a Professor of Modern History at the Universit…
August 13, 2020
Troublemakers
James West speaks with Erik Gellman, an associate professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about his new book Troublem…
July 15, 2020
Louis Austin and the Carolina Times
James West speaks with Jerry Gershenhorn, Julius L. Chambers Professor of History at North Carolina Central University, about Louis Austin and the Car…
June 11, 2020
Free The Land
On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many conclude…
October 30, 2019
The Fire Is Upon Us
Nicholas Buccola’s new book, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University Pre…
October 23, 2019
Represented
Brenna Wynn Greer’s new study Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), provide…
September 19, 2019
The Grapevine of the Black South
In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. By 1932 the Atlanta World had be…
February 25, 2019
The Black Skyscraper
Adrienne Brown joins the New Books Network this week to talk about her fascinating 2017 book, The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of…
March 22, 2017
Eye on the Struggle
In his acclaimed biography Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press (Amistad, Reprint Edition, 2017), James McGrath Morris …
March 13, 2017
Blood at the Root
This episode of New Books in African American Studies covers Patrick Phillips' powerful new book Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W.W…
October 27, 2016
The Defender
In his new book The Defender: How The Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), Ethan Michaeli charts the riveting …
October 21, 2016
Savage Portrayals
Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story (Temple University Press, 2014) offers a timely reminder of how racial bias and prej…
October 7, 2016
Black Print Unbound
Eric Gardner's new study Black Print Unbound: the Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture (Oxford University Press, 20…
September 2, 2016
Alone Atop the Hill
Carol McCabe Booker is a Washington, D.C. attorney and former journalist. In the 1960s and 70s, she covered civil rights for the Voice of America, fre…
August 30, 2016
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, antebellum African Americans elites turned to the newspaper as a means of translating their belief in blac…