New Books in African American Studies
Interviews with Scholars of African America about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of African America about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
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- 2025-01-04 21:04
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- 2025-01-04 09:00
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| 2025-01-04 | Joshua Rothman’s The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America was published by Basic Books in 2021, and tells a sprawling history of slave traders in America. Often presented as outcasts and social pariahs, slave traders were oft... |
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| 2025-01-02 |
I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023) In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, an... |
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| 2025-01-01 | In this episode, S. Sayyid talks with Barnor Hesse (Northwestern University) on the Antimonies of Afropessimism. Professor Barnor Hesse teaches in the department of African American Studies, at Northwestern University, he is the author of Raceocracy: W... |
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| 2025-01-01 | At the end of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved widow and mother living in Massachusetts. Hearing the words of the new Massachusetts state constitution which declared liberty and equality for all, she sought the help of a young... |
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| 2025-01-01 | In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era.... |
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| 2024-12-31 | The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man” James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” is a powerful short story that describes the life of Jesse, a 42-year-old white police officer whose experiences alternate between his present-day struggles with impotence and his memories of racial violence. As ... |
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| 2024-12-30 | A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC Press, 2024) tells the little-known story of "segregation scholarships" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate educ... |
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| 2024-12-29 | In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to writ... |
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| 2024-12-25 | A conversation with Dr. Sylviane Diouf on enslaved Muslim in the Americas. Diouf is the author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (NYU Press, 2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by ... |
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