New Books in African American Studies

1779 Episodes

1. Paula C. Austin, "Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life" (NYU Press, 2019)

   Published: 4/1/2020
2. Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)

   Published: 3/30/2020
3. Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce" (Routledge, 2020)

   Published: 3/27/2020
4. Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)

   Published: 3/24/2020
5. Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

   Published: 3/20/2020
6. Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

   Published: 3/20/2020
7. Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form" (Routledge, 2017)

   Published: 3/18/2020
8. Great Books: John Callahan on Ellison's "Invisible Man"

   Published: 3/17/2020
9. Nancy Appelbaum, "Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia" (UNC Press, 2016)

   Published: 3/13/2020
10. Paul J. Polgar, "Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)

    Published: 3/12/2020
11. Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2019)

    Published: 3/12/2020
12. AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry on the Becoming Historians

    Published: 3/9/2020
13. Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

    Published: 3/5/2020
14. Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town" (UNC Press, 2016)

    Published: 2/28/2020
15. Graham R. G. Hodges, "Black New Jersey 1664 to the Present Day" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

    Published: 2/26/2020
16. Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 2/25/2020
17. Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

    Published: 2/25/2020
18. Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia" (U California Press, 2019)

    Published: 2/24/2020
19. Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic" (U Alabama Press, 2020)

    Published: 2/21/2020
20. Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement" (NewSouth Books, 2020)

    Published: 2/21/2020