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About Katrina Anderson

Katrina Anderson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware.

Katrina Anderson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware.

NBN Episodes hosted by Katrina:

African American Studies October 28, 2023

Brooding over Bloody Revenge

Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

Nikki M. Taylor

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody …
African American Studies October 19, 2023

A Lynching at Port Jervis

Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

Philip Dray

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim …
African American Studies October 18, 2023

Black Crown

Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom

Paul Clammer

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
How did a Caribbean child, born into plantation slavery, come to defeat Napoleon's armies in battle and crown himself king of the first free black nation in the Americas? Black …
African American Studies October 16, 2023

Africatown

America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

Nick Tabor

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created (St. Martin's Press, 2023) charts the fraught history of America from those who …
African American Studies October 15, 2023

The Interest

How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery

Michael Taylor

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the …
African American Studies October 14, 2023

The Devil's Half Acre

The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

Kristen Green

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs. In The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold …
African American Studies October 13, 2023

In Search of Mary Seacole

The Making of a Black Cultural Icon

Helen Rappaport

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Raised in Jamaica, Mary Seacole first came to England in the 1850s after working in Panama. She wanted to volunteer as a nurse and aide during the Crimean War. When …
African American Studies October 10, 2023

The Vice President's Black Wife

The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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In The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (UNC Press, 2023), award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia …
African American Studies October 1, 2023

Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America

Born to Bloom Unseen?

Rebecca J. Fraser

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women’s contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America …
African American Studies September 30, 2023

Ode to Hip-Hop

50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music

Kiana Fitzgerald

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
From underground roots to mainstream popularity, hip-hop's influence on music and entertainment around the world has been nothing short of extraordinary. Ode to Hip-Hop chronicles the journey with profiles of …
African American Studies September 28, 2023

Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

Peter Reed

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Cambridge UP, 2022), Peter P. Reed …
African American Studies September 27, 2023

An Abolitionist Abroad

Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe

Sirpa Salenius

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) left the free black community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of the first women to travel on extensive lecture tours across …
African American Studies September 26, 2023

Before the Movement

The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Dylan C. Penningroth

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement. The familiar story of civil …
African American Studies September 20, 2023

Passing

An Alternative History of Identity

Lipika Pelham

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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A slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is 'cancelled' for denying her whiteness. A Victorian …
African American Studies September 19, 2023

The Black Angels

The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Maria Smilios

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New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuber­culosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses …
African American Studies September 14, 2023

The Kidnapping Club

Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

Jonathan Daniel Wells

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting …
African American Studies September 11, 2023

Slave Empire

How Slavery Built Modern Britain

Padraic X. Scanlan

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all …
African American Studies September 10, 2023

Carnival in Alabama

Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile

Isabel Machado

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of …
African American Studies September 5, 2023

The Girl in the Yellow Poncho

A Memoir

Kristal Brent Zook

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At five years old, Kristal Brent Zook sat on the steps of a Venice Beach, California, motel trying to make sense of her white father’s abandonment, which left her feeling …
African American Studies August 30, 2023

Civil Rights Queen

Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker …
African American Studies August 29, 2023

Museums and Atlantic Slavery

Ana Lucia Araujo

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Ana Lucia Araujo's book Museums and Atlantic Slavery (Routledge, 2021) explores how slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and enslaved people are represented through words, visual images, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in …
African American Studies August 27, 2023

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls

Watch It!

Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette's book Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls (Lexington Books, 2022) examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in twentieth and twenty-first century …
African American Studies August 27, 2023

Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania

Beverly C. Tomek

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
In her concise history Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania (Temple UP, 2021), Beverly Tomek corrects the long-held notion that slavery in the North was “not so bad” as, or somehow …
African American Studies August 25, 2023

Hero Me Not

The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero

Chesya Burke

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
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First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, with …