About Sherry Johnson

NBN Episodes hosted by Sherry:

Paula T. Connolly, "Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010" (U Iowa Press, 2013)

March 26, 2015

Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010

Paula T. Connolly
Hosted by Sherry Johnson

The "peculiar institution" upon which the US nation was founded is still rich for examination.Perhaps this is why it is a subject to which 21st centur…

Stephen G. Hall, "A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2009)

February 8, 2013

A Faithful Account of the Race

Stephen G. Hall
Hosted by Sherry Johnson

Historian Stephen Hall passionately engages in the history of nineteenth-century African American intellectual life in his first monograph, A Faithful…

Carla L. Peterson, "Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale UP, 2011)

January 18, 2013

Black Gotham

Carla L. Peterson
Hosted by Sherry Johnson

Digging up our roots seems to be the thing these days. There are a host of genealogy resources available for anyone who cares to (re)discover their fa…

Michele Elam, "The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium" (Stanford UP, 2011)

October 31, 2012

The Souls of Mixed Folk

Michele Elam
Hosted by Sherry Johnson

"What are you?" The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting…

Vershawn Young, "From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances" (Wayne State UP, 2011)

May 7, 2012

From Bourgeois to Boojie

Vershawn Young
Hosted by Sherry Johnson

What does it mean to be black? In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances (Wayne State University Press, 2011) editor Vershawn Ashan…