New Books in African American Studies

1769 Episodes

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

   Published: 1/7/2025
2. Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)

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

   Published: 1/4/2025
4. Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/2/2025
5. I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)

   Published: 1/2/2025
6. Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)

   Published: 1/1/2025
7. Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)

   Published: 1/1/2025
8. In Conversation: The Antinomies of Afropessimism

   Published: 1/1/2025
9. Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

   Published: 12/31/2024
10. James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”

    Published: 12/31/2024
11. Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/30/2024
12. Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/29/2024
13. Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/25/2024
14. In Conversation: Enslaved Muslims in the Americas

    Published: 12/25/2024
15. Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/24/2024
16. Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/24/2024
17. Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/20/2024
18. Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 12/17/2024
19. Brian Martin, "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War" (ECW Press, 2022)

    Published: 12/16/2024
20. Leslie Beth Ribovich, "Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools" (NYU Press, 2024)

    Published: 12/13/2024