New Books in African American Studies

1766 Episodes

1. Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)

   Published: 2/17/2025
2. The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

   Published: 2/13/2025
3. Tao Leigh Goffe, "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (Doubleday Books, 2025)

   Published: 2/10/2025
4. Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)

   Published: 2/7/2025
5. Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)

   Published: 2/6/2025
6. Gloria Blizzard, "Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas" (Dundurn Press, 2025)

   Published: 2/2/2025
7. Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)

   Published: 1/30/2025
8. Robin Bernstein, "Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 1/27/2025
9. Leonne M. Hudson, "Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (Southern Illinois UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/24/2025
10. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/24/2025
11. The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

    Published: 1/23/2025
12. Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/22/2025
13. Anthony Walton, "The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation" (David R. Godine, 2024)

    Published: 1/15/2025
14. Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/15/2025
15. Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/13/2025
16. Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/13/2025
17. Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)

    Published: 1/7/2025
18. Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

    Published: 1/7/2025
19. Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)

    Published: 1/4/2025
20. I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/2/2025