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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:
August 4, 2024
First Things First
This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop—and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an…
August 3, 2024
Generations of Freedom
In Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (U Georgia Press, 2021), Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender a…
August 2, 2024
Spirit Deep
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spi…
August 1, 2024
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood
Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 (Liverpool UP, 2023) examines three major currents i…
March 15, 2024
This Is Our Home
The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US nationa…
March 14, 2024
A Bittersweet Heritage
The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain's role in tra…
March 13, 2024
Conditional Freedom
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada…
March 12, 2024
Black Enlightenment
In Black Enlightenment (Duke UP, 2023), Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the works of…
March 10, 2024
American Slavers
A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and marin…
March 9, 2024
Master Slave Husband Wife
Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Simon and Schuster, 2023) tells the remarkable true story of Ellen and…
March 7, 2024
Combee
Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground R…
March 6, 2024
How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop
How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race (U California Press, 2023) examines the programming practices at commercial radio stations in the 198…
January 24, 2024
Traders in Men
During the eighteenth century, Britain’s slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the…
October 28, 2023
Brooding over Bloody Revenge
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voice…
October 19, 2023
A Lynching at Port Jervis
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…
October 18, 2023
Black Crown
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 nat…
October 16, 2023
Africatown
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 fra…
October 15, 2023
The Interest
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 …
October 14, 2023
The Devil's Half Acre
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 Dev…
October 13, 2023
In Search of Mary Seacole
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 Cri…
October 10, 2023
The Vice President's Black Wife
In The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (UNC Press, 2023), award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered t…
October 1, 2023
Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America
Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black wo…
September 30, 2023
Ode to Hip-Hop
From underground roots to mainstream popularity, hip-hop's influence on music and entertainment around the world has been nothing short of extraordina…
September 28, 2023
Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America
American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century Ame…