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Interviews with Scholars of African America about their New Books
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Kevin Woodson, "The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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May 13, 2024 |
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Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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May 13, 2024 |
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Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, "The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Robert K. D. Colby, "An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Luis H. H. Favela, "The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment" (Routledge, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Kendra Y. Hamilton, "Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, "Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States" (UNC Press, 2023)
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May 07, 2024 |
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James Wolfinger, "If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia" (Temple UP, 2022)
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May 06, 2024 |
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Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Adam J. Criblez, "Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City" (Three Hills, 2024)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Fumilayo Showers, "Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Joseph H. Holland, "Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers" (Dafina, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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JJ Johnson and Danica Novgorodoff, "The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Elyse Ambrose, "A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive" (T&T Clark, 2024)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Shardé M. Davis, "Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Greg Jarrell, "Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods" (Fortress Press, 2024)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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David J. Dennis Jr. and David J. Dennis Sr., "The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride" (Harper, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, "From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle" (Vanderbilt UP, 2024)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Jonathan W. White, "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Myisha Cherry, "Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Victoria Perry, "A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape" (Hurst, 2022)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Thomas Mareite, "Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861" (Brill, 2024)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Judith Tick, "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song" (Norton, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Sharon D. Wright Austin, "Political Black Girl Magic: The Elections and Governance of Black Female Mayors" (Temple UP, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Rachel Jamison Webster, "Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family" (Henry Holt, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Amy Coddington, "How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race" (U California Press, 2023)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Derron Wallace, "The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Horace J. Maxile, Jr. and Kristen M. Turner, "Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide" (Routledge, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Brian H. Williams, "The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Jennifer Sdunzik, "The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration through Small-Town America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Steven High, "Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell, "Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production" (Intellect, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Marc Arsell Robinson, "Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Maryam Kashani, "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Damien Sojoyner, "Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Black and Queer on Campus
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Emily Brooks, "Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Darnise C. Martin, "Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church" (NYU Press, 2005)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Jafari S. Allen, "There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Nessette Falu, "Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Michelle J. Manno, "Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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David Steele, "It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenomenology of Black Spirit" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Lama Rod Owens, "The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors" (Sounds True, 2023)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Scholes, "Christianity, Race, and Sport" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Frederick V. Engram, "Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Christopher P. Barton, "The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey" (UP of Florida, 2023)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Decolonizing Praxis
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Matthew Guariglia, "Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Philip Dray, "A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age" (FSG, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Katherine Jensen, "The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Orisanmi Burton, "Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt" (U California Press, 2023)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Nick Tabor, "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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John D. Garrigus, "A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Michael Taylor, "The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery" (Bodley Head, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Kristen Green, "The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail" (Seal Press, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry, "Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Sharon Patricia Holland, "an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Zebulon Vance Miletsky, "Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Lipika Pelham, "Passing: An Alternative History of Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Kimberly Mack, "Living Colour's Time's Up" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Christopher Paul Harris, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Chris Molanphy, "Old Town Road" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Jonathan Daniel Wells, "The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War" (Bold Type Press, 2020)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Nicole Fabricant, "Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore" (U California Press, 2022)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Ana Lucia Araujo, "Museums and Atlantic Slavery" (Routledge, 2021)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Beverly C. Tomek, "Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania" (Temple UP, 2021)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Becoming Justice Thomas
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, "Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Jennifer Ritterhouse, "Discovering the South: One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Earl Cureton and Jake Uitti, "Earl the Twirl: My Life in Basketball" (McFarland, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Keith A. Mayes, "The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Donovan X. Ramsey, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era" (One World, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Tamara J. Walker, "Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad" (Crown, 2023)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Marzia Milazzo, "Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Anthony Russell Jerry, "Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica" (UP of Florida, 2023)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Jessica D. Klanderud, "Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Victor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Katherine C. Mooney, "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Down Deep in My Soul (with Fr. Maurice Nutt, C.Ss.R.)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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J. T. Roane, "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, "Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Chris Campion and Bud Lee, "The War is Here: Newark 1967" (ZE Books, 2023)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Ed Mitchell et al., "Ed Mitchell's Barbeque" (Ecco, 2023)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Samantha Nogueira Joyce, "Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
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May 20, 2023 |
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Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)
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May 18, 2023 |
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Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 18, 2023 |
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America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK
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May 17, 2023 |
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Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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May 13, 2023 |
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Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)
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May 13, 2023 |
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Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)
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May 13, 2023 |
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John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)
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May 12, 2023 |
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Karin Chenoweth, "Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
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May 09, 2023 |
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Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)
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May 08, 2023 |
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Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
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May 07, 2023 |
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Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)
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May 05, 2023 |
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Cedric Johnson, "After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle" (Verso, 2023)
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May 04, 2023 |
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Philip Ewell, "On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Evie Shockley, "Suddenly We" (Wesleyan UP, 2023)
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May 01, 2023 |
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Mauro Porto, "Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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May 01, 2023 |
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Charles Reagan Wilson, "The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Paul R. Semendinger, "Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx" (Artemesia, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Beth Bailey, "An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Arleen Tuchman, "Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Rachel Anne Gillett, "At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Keith Brian Wood, "Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Nicholas Guyatt, "The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Shelly M. Jones, "Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians" (American Mathematical Society, 2019)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Joshua Myers, "Of Black Study" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Cristina Mejia Visperas, "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" (NYU, 2022)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Celeste Day Moore, "Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Mari N. Crabtree, "My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Leah Mickens, "In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Charles Price, "Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Geoff Harkness, "DVS Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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David Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, "Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936" (APS, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance" (HarperOne, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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R. J. M. Blackett, "Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Damian Alan Pargas, "Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Traveling Black, A Story of Race and Resistance: A Conversation with Mia Bay
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Theresa Runstedtler, "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA" (Bold Type Books, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period" (U The West Indies Press, 2019)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Joan Flores-Villalobos, "The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Nicola Rollock, "The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival" (Penguin, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Jovan Scott Lewis, "Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Damien M. Sojoyner, "Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Lerone A. Martin, "The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Mary Crossley, "Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Mitchell Schwarzer, "Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer, "Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest" ( U Washington Press, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Gerald F. Goodwin, "Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Lauron J. Kehrer, "Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing" (Leuven UP, 2022)
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Hannah Noel, "Deflective Whiteness: Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Kate Masur, "Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction" (Norton, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Energy Costs, Poverty, and Race
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Dianne M. Stewart, "Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage" (Seal Press, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Above the Veil: Beyond Segregationism and Assimilationism
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Shaun M. Anderson, "The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age Of #BlackLivesMatter" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Stephen C. Finley, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Viola Franziska Müller, "Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Miguel Valerio, "Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Tanya Katerí Hernández, "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Seeing Truth in the Speculative: A Conversation with Dexter Gabriel
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Christopher Loperena, "The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Jonathan W. White, "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Michael Ayers Trotti, "The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Craig Seymour, "Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross" (2017)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Lyzette Wanzer, "Trauma, Tresses, and Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Quito J. Swan, "Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Matthew F. Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Barbara Harris Combs, "Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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On James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Sarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Jasmine Nichole Cobb, "New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Ray Scott, "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach" (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Marquis Bey, "Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Anna Arabindan-Kesson, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Rhonda F. Levine, "When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City" (Routledge, 2019)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Paul Barba, "Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Caroline Grego, "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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R. Isabela Morales, "Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Therí Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Muggsy Bogues and Jake Uitti, "Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball" (Triumph, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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On Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Guthrie P. Ramsey, "Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present" (U California Press, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Aisha Khan, "The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Christopher Stuart Taylor, "Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians" (Fernwood, 2016)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Jeremi Suri, "Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Matthew Delmont, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Sam W. Haynes, "Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Mario Nisbett, "The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Guy Lancaster, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" (U Arkansas Press, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Dan Immergluck, "Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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On Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Patricia A. Turner, "Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Anima Adjepong, "Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Emerald Garner, "Finding My Voice" (Haymarket, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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On Trafficking Hadassah and Book of Esther
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Anne Balay, "Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Garrett Felber, "Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman" (37 Ink, 2019)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" (Liveright, 2020)
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Charles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Kaysha Corinealdi, "Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Derek H. Alderman et al., "Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Jodi Skipper, "Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery" (Luath Press, 2022)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Jeroen Dewulf, "Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Studying Black Religious Thought
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Jamil W. Drake, "To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Antonio C. Cuyler, "Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US" (Routledge, 2020)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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His Sister, Her Monologue: A Discussion with Hilton Als
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Julius B. Fleming Jr., "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Tom Zoellner, "Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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On W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk"
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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On Frederick Douglass
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Saladin Ambar, "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Writing Beyond a Limited Narrative: A Conversation with Hari Ziyad
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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On Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Miriam Thaggert, "Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Daniel T. Fleming, "Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Victoria Reyes, "Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz, "Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Will Jawando, "My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" (FSG, 2022)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Peter H. Wood, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion" (Norton, 1996)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Michael K. Beauchamp, "Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815" (LSU Press, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Traci Parker, "Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Darts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative Fiction
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Xine Yao, "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Black Trans Feminism
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Thulani Davis, "The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Victoria W. Wolcott, "Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Erin C. MacLeod, "Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2014)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Anthony W. Wood, "Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, "Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Negro Literature
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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H. H. Leonards, "Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership" (R. H. Boyd, 2022)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Xinling Li, "Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music: Black Gay Men Who Rap" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Jessica Lipsky, "It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and the 21st-Century Soul Revolution" (Jawbone, 2021)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Stefanie K. Dunning, "Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Holly A. Pinheiro Jr., "The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth" (Lyons Press, 2021)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Bianca C. Williams et al., "Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Paul T. Murray, "Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed: Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice" (AAFH, 2022)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Louis M. Maraj, "Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics" (Utah State UP, 2020)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Brandi Clay Brimmer, "Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Sarah Deutsch, "Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation" (Grand Central, 2022)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Ethnography, Humility, Identity, and the Academy
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Treva B. Lindsey, "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Tajja Isen, "Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service" (Atria/One Signal, 2022)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Andrea C. Mosterman, "Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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A Newly Discovered Essay by Fredrick Douglas: "Slavery" (1894-1895)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Reighan Gillam, "Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Melissa Ford, "A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest During the Great Depression" (Southern Illinois UP, 2022)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Irvin J. Hunt, "Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Richard Stamz and Patrick A. Roberts, "Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Brandon T. Jett, "Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South" (Louisiana State UP, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Sean J. Drake, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 25, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Rodrigues, "Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century Us Literatures" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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May 17, 2022 |
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On Women of Color in American Islam
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May 16, 2022 |
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Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Cynthia Parker-Ohene, "Daughters of Harriet: Poems" (UP of Colorado, 2022)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Paul M. Heideman, "Class Struggle and the Color Line: American Socialism and the Race Question 1900-1930" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Nicole Charles, "Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados" (Duke UP, 2022)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Glenda E. Gilmore, "Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Dhanveer Singh Brar, "Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century" (Goldsmiths Press, 2021)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)" (Haymarket, 2022)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Aaron Cohen, "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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May 04, 2022 |
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The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
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May 03, 2022 |
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Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Hurricanes
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Kristin Henning, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Pantheon Books, 2021)
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Nina M. Yancy, "How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Joseph Darda, "The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Kelly Bauer, "Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Jennifer Delfino, "Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children" (Lexington Book, 2020)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Caits Meissner, ed., "The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Richard Brent Turner, "Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Afropessimism
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Shawn Michael Austin, "Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Hilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U of Illinois Press, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Mark Newman, "Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Nitasha Tamar Sharma, "Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Francesca Morgan, "A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Elisabeth Ceppi, "Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Tia Brown McNair, "From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education" (Jossey-Bass, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Leslie T. Grover, "The Benefits of Eating White Folks" (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Carole Emberton, "To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" (Norton, 2022)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Brian J. Peterson, "Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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K. Stephen Prince, "The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot Of 1900" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Tessa Murphy, "The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Daniel R. Bare, "Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Randall Horton, "Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Joshua Myers, "Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition" (Polity, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Mark Christian Thompson, "Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Myisha Cherry, "The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield, "Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Kyle T. Mays, "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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75* Sean Hill Talks about Bodies in Space and Time with Elizabeth Bradfield
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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David Alston, "Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Rachel Pagones, "Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love" (Brevis, 2021)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Kurt Edward Kemper, "Before March Madness: The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Eric Herschthal, "The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Jonathan W. White, "A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts, "Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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I'm Possible: A Conversation with Tuba Professor Dr. Richard White
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Lyndsey Ellis, "Bone Broth" (Hidden Timber Books, 2021)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Keith Wailoo, "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Kerry L. Haynie et al., "Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Tyler D. Parry, "Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Kristin Waters, "Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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72 Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Terri Givens, "Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides" (Policy Press, 2021)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Marion Thompson, "The Marion Thompson Wright Reader" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Suzanne Cope, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Mercy Romero, "Toward Camden" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Michael Muhammad Knight, "Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Sarah J. Purcell, "Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Winfrey Harris, "The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Mary Talusan, "Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Warren E. Milteer, Jr., "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Shamira Gelbman, "The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction" (Temple UP, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Samantha Seeley, "Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Elizabeth McHenry, "To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Adam Hilton, "True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Bryant Terry, "Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora" (4 Color Books, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Cassandra Lane, "We Are Bridges: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Mia Bay, "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Britt Rusert, "Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture" (NYU Press, 2017)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Edward J. Ayers, "Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Dave Zirin, "The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World" (New Press, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Shoutin’ In the Fire: A Conversation with Graduate Student Dante Stewart
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Karla FC Holloway, "Gone Missing in Harlem: A Novel" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Joseph C. Ewoodzie, "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Peter Cole, "Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly" (PM Press, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Crystal Webster, "Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Kevin Bruyneel, "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Robin J. Hayes, "Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Steven P. Brown, "Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Jasmine Mitchell, "Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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James G. Cantres, "Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Efrén O. Pérez, "Diversity's Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Rachel Afi Quinn, "Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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David Lester, "Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Alaina E. Roberts, "I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Jovan Scott Lewis, "Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Habiba Ibrahim, "Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Ruby Hamad, "White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color" (Catapult, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Imani Perry on a Life in African American Studies
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Alice L Baumgartner, "South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Lindsey Stewart, "The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Catherine Knight Steele, "Digital Black Feminism" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey, "The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Erica R. Edwards, "The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Anne Pollock, "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Robert C. Schwaller, "African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Takkara K. Brunson, "Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Pamela J. Prickett, "Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Vanessa M. Holden, "Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Priya Kandaswamy, "Domestic Contradictions: Race and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Welfare Reform" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Karla Slocum, "Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Minna Salami, "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone" (Amistad, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Luke Epplin, "Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Farah Jasmine Griffin, "Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature" (Norton, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Gene Slater, "Free to Discriminate: How the Nation's Realtors Created Housing Segregation and the Conservative Vision of American Freedom" (Hayday Books, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Thomas Aiello, "The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus, "Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Teresa Irene Gonzales, "Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Lettie Gay, "Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking" ( U South Carolina Press, 2021)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Caseen Gaines, "Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Barrett Holmes Pitner, "The Crime Without a Name: Combatting Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America" (Counterpoint, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Ella L. J. Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo, "Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity" (Harvard Business Press, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Pamela Ayo Yetunde on being Black and Buddhist
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, "Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Michael Twitty, "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Adam Henig, "Watergate's Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman" (McFarland, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Richard Alba, "The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Alison Rose Jefferson, "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Mark A. Johnson, "Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Ben Railton, "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Christopher J. Lee, "Kwame Anthony Appiah" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Anthony Q. Hazard, "Boasians at War: Anthropology, Race, and World War II" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Adam Lee Cilli, "Canaan, Dim and Far: Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Philip Butler, "Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Theodore W. Cohen, "Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Kevin Waite, "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein, "Boxed Out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Ken Ellingwood, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Ariana Brown, "We Are Owed." (Grieveland Press, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Sebastian N. Page, "Black Resettlement and the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Erin R. Pineda, "Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Funké Aladejebi, "Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers" (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Martin Summers, "Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Hinton, "America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since The 1960s" (Liveright, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade, "No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media" (Vernon Press, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Van Gosse, "The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Kevin Quashie, "Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Timothy D. Walker, "Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Claudrena N. Harold, "When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Todne Thomas, "Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Bob Kuska and Archie Clark, "Shake and Bake: The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Amaka Okechukwu, "To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Jamila Lyiscott, "Black Appetite. White Food. Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Katrinell M. Davis, "Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Cécile Fromont, "Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition" (Penn State, 2019)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Neil Altman, "White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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The Social Constructions of Race: A Discussion with Brigitte Fielder
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Cat M. Ariail, "Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Nadia E. Brown and Danielle Casarez Lemi, "Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 24, 2021 |
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Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Kathryn Benjamin Golden, "Armed in the Great Swamp': Fear, Maroon Insurrection, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp" (2021)
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May 19, 2021 |
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Justene Hill Edwards, "Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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May 19, 2021 |
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Matthew Clair, "Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 18, 2021 |
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Moya Bailey, "Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance" (NYU Press, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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John Murillo III, "Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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May 14, 2021 |
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João José Reis, "Ganhadores: A greve negra de 1857 na Bahia" (Companhia das Letras, 2019)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Kate Dossett, "Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 10, 2021 |
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Alison M. Parker, "Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 10, 2021 |
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David Alan Sklansky, "A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What it Means for Justice" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Maureen Mahon, "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" (Duke UP, 2020)
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May 04, 2021 |
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Karlos K. Hill, "The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Tara T. Green, "Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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E. Patrick Johnson, "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South" (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Nikki Lane, "The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Susan Ware, "American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965" (Library of America, 2020)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Hari Ziyad, "Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir" (Little a, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Jarvis R. Givens, "Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Fatima Shaik, "Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood" (HNOC, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Andrew Maraniss, "Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke" (Philomel Books, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Tamika Y. Nunley, "At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C." (UNC Press, 2021)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Joshua Bennett, "Owed" (Penguin, 2020)
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Richard Jean So, "Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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B. K. Mitchell, et al., "Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana" (HNOC, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Michael Rosino, "Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and Media in the War on Drugs Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Elyssa Ford, "Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Race, Gender, and Identity in the American Rodeo" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Bertram Levine and Grande Lum, "America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights" (U Missouri Press, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Danielle Fuentes Morgan, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the 21st Century" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner, "African American Political Thought: A Collected History" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Daina R. Berry and Kali N. Gross, "A Black Women's History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2020)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Thomas C. Holt, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Elizabeth L. Jemison, "Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Karen Woods Weierman, "The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston" (U Massachusetts Press, 2019)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Nate Chinen, "Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century" (Vintage, 2019)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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David A. Less, "Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World" (ECW Press, 2020)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Jelani Favors, "Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism" (U of North Carolina Press, 2020)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Erica Ball et al., "As if She Were Free" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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R. A. Judy, "Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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William C. Kashatus, "William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Christopher T. Stout, "The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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B. Brian Foster, "I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Theodore D. Segal, "Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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JeVon McCormick: Entrepreneur, Author and Speaker
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Evan Rapport, "Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Candacy Taylor, "Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America" (Abrams Press, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Daphne A. Brooks, "Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Robert L. Stone, "Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community" (U of Mississippi Press, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Alison Phipps, "Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy: A Discussion with Michael Hanchard
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Cathleen D. Cahill, "Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement" (U North Carolina Press, 2020)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2028)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Kimberly Mack, "Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White" (U Mass Press, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Earl Wright II, "Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology" (University of Cincinnati Press, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Mical Raz, "Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way" (UNC Press Books, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Gretchen Sorin, "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2020)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Sheldon George, "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity" (Baylor UP, 2016)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Tyler Stovall, "White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Roundtable on W. E. B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935)
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Andratesha Fritzgerald, "Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning" (Cast, 2020)
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Cedric Burrows, "The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers" (2011)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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GerShun Avilez, "Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Maya Stovall, "Liquor Store Theatre" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Careers: A Discussion with Dorothy Berry, Digital Archivist
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Richard J. Boles, "Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Careers: A Discussion with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Studies Scholar
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Rachel Berenson Perry, "The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Bruce Haynes, "Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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B. R. Roberts and K. Foulcher, "Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference" (Duke UP, 2016)
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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David A. Varel, "The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Norah L. A. Gharala, "Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain" (U of Alabama Press, 2019)
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History" (Beacon Press, 1995)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Marjoleine Kars, "Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast" (New Press, 2020)
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Simon J. Gilhooley, "The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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J. A. Ball and T. Burroughs, "A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X" (Black Classic Press, 2015)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Kim T. Gallon, "Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Michael E. Sawyer, "Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X" (Pluto Press, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Tony Bolden, "Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Justin Gifford, "Revolution Or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver" (Lawrence Hill, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice" (UP of Florida, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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D. T. Lawrence and E. J. Lawless, "When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom: A Conversation with Eddie R. Cole
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Anjali Vats, "The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Jill Watts, "The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt" (Grove Press, 2020)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Clayborne Carson, "Malcolm X: The FBI File" (Skyhorse, 2012)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Nicholas Guyatt, "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation" (Basic Books, 2016)
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner' (UP Mississippi, 2020)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Saladin Ambar, "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution" (NYU Press, 2016)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, "Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas" (U of South Carolina Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Koritha Mitchell, "From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Brandi T. Summers, "Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Connor Towne O’Neill, "Down Along with That Devil’s Bones" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Zakkiyah Iman Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Kathryn A. Mariner, "Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States" (U California Press, 2019)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Eddie Cole, "The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Warren Hoffman, "The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical", 2nd edition (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Karlos K. Hill, "The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Felicia Angeja Viator, "To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Lisa B. Thompson, "Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Simone C. Drake, "Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Dan Royles, "To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Nadia Nurhussein, "Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Chinua Thelwell, "Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture” (Duke UP, 2018)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Alexandra J. Finley, "An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Why are Blacks Democrats?: An Interview with Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Hannah L. Walker, "Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Armstrong Williams, "What Black and White America Must Do Now: A Prescription to Move Beyond Race" (Hot Books, 2020)
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Laura J. Arata, "Race and the Wild West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Ariella Rotramel, "Pushing Back: Women of Color-Led Grassroots Activism in New York City" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press 2020)
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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William L. Patterson, "We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People" (International Publishers, 2017)
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Jennifer Cobbina, "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Teresa A. Goddu, "Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Postscript: A Discussion of Race, Anger and Citizenship in the USA
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Edward C. Valandra, "Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities" (Living Justice Press, 2020)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (UPenn Press, 2004)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Hettie V. Williams, "Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History" (Praeger, 2018)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Jennifer L. Morgan, "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Catherine Adel West, "Saving Ruby King: A Novel" (Park Row Books, 2020)
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Political Strategist
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Stooges Brass Band, "Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Simon Hall, "Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s" (Faber and Faber, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Dan Edelstein, "On the Spirit of Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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A Discussion with J. T. Roane on Writing African American Lives
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Khary O. Polk, "Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation" (Beacon, 2019)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Benjamin Talton, "In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics" (Pennsylvania UP, 2019)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Kimberly Brown Pellum, "Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South" (History Press, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Aaron Carico, "Black Market: The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Rae Linda Brown, "Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Kyle Barnett, "Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Andrea Benjamin, "Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High" (UP of Colorado, 2018)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Monica Coleman, "Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith" (Fortress Press, 2016)
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Nyasha Junior, “Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible” (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from AfroNet to Black Lives Matter" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion" (U California Press, 2020)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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David A. Harris, "A City Divided: Race, Fear and the Law in Police Confrontations" (Anthem Press, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Philip Butler, "Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Kevin J. Bryne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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M. C. Stevenson et al. (eds.), "The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law and Public Policy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Andrew Kettler, "The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Justin Gomer, "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Raymond Winbush, "The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writing of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing" (Black Classics Press, 2019)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Mark Anderson, "From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism and American Anthropology" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Walter Johnson, "The Broken Heart of America" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Peniel E. Joseph, "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr." (Basic, 2020)
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Richard Gergel, "Unexampled Courage" (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Joshua M. Myers, "We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (Wesleyan UP, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Edward J. Robinson, "Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A History of African American Churches of Christ" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide" (Hachette, 2020)
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2020)
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Steven J. L. Taylor, "Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators: African Americans in Ghana" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Shana Redmond, "Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Monika Gosin, "The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles For Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Aaron Kamugisha, "Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Jill Strauss, "Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Sherrow O. Pinder et al., "Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Lynn M. Thomas, "Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Edward Onaci, "Free The Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Africana and AfroAm Studies
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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H. Moore and J. Tracy, "No Fascist USA!" (City Lights, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for Critical Consciousness" (Harvard Education, 2020)
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright, 2020)
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Bharat Malkani, "Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition" (Routledge, 2018)
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a New History" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Kathryn H. Ross, "Black Was Not a Label" (Pronto, 2019)
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May 28, 2020 |
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Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York" (NYU Press, 2019)
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May 28, 2020 |
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Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2020)
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May 27, 2020 |
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Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights" (UP Kentucky, 2019)
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May 19, 2020 |
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Natasha J. Lightfoot, "Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2015)
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May 14, 2020 |
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Forrest Stuart, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 13, 2020 |
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Kenesha N. Grant, "The Great Migration and the Democratic Party" (Temple UP, 2020)
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May 12, 2020 |
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Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa" (James Currey, 2019)
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May 04, 2020 |
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Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
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May 01, 2020 |
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Le’Trice D. Donaldson, "Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920" (SIUP, 2020)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Mary Stanton, "Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, "Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Vincent Brown, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Jeff Forret, "William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Paula C. Austin, "Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce" (Routledge, 2020)
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Kristen Hoerl, "Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form" (Routledge, 2017)
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Great Books: John Callahan on Ellison's "Invisible Man"
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Nancy Appelbaum, "Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Paul J. Polgar, "Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry on the Becoming Historians
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Graham R. G. Hodges, "Black New Jersey 1664 to the Present Day" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia" (U California Press, 2019)
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement" (NewSouth Books, 2020)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Peter Cole, "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Great Books: Emily Bernard on Larsen's "Passing"
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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adrienne maree brown, "Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good" (AK Press, 2019)
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, "Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy" (The New Press, 2018)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indies, 2018)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam” (First Edition Design, 2017)
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Mark Katz, "Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing" (U Texas Press, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Adrienne Petty, "Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Great Books: Rich Blint on James Baldwin's "Another Country"
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Male College Athletes" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Brandon R. Byrd, "The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti" (U Penn Press, 2019)
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Davin Phoenix, "The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Darnella Davis, "Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era" (U New Mexico Press, 2018)
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Lennox Honychurch, "In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica" (UP Mississippi, 2017)
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Lundy Braun, "Breathing Race into the Machine" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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John L. Brooke, "'There Is a North': Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War" (U Mass Press, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Rebecca Scofield, "Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West" (U Washington, 2019)
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Jonathan Rothwell, "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code" (Polity, 2019)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Derrick E. White, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football" (UNC, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Ashley Farmer on "Archiving While Black"
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality in African American Music" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School" (UVA Press, 2014)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Zoltan Hajnal, "Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall, "Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Re-Imaging Gender in Wakanda" (WDL, 2019)
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Marc Dollinger, "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" (Brandeis UP, 2018)
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Jared Hardesty, "Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England" (Bright Leaf, 2019)
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Brenna Wynn Greer, "Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Steven White, "World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Richard Bell, "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War" (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres, "Black British Migrants in Cuba" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Cécile Vidal, "Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Remi Joseph-Salisbury, "Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience" (Emerald, 2018)
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Claudia Leal, "Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia" (U Arizona Press, 2018)
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Ashanté M. Reese, "Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C." (UNC Press, 2019)
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Scott Heerman, "The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country" (U Pennsylvania, 2018)
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselves: How Food has Shaped African American Life" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Michael F. Conlin, "The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Mark Burford, "Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Chelene Knight, "Dear Current Occupant" (Book*hug, 2018)
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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William Sturkey, "Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Hendrik Hartog, "The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Kevin M. Levin, "Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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David Doddington, "Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Kevin Dawson, "Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Patricia A. Banks, "Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums: Black Renaissance" (Routledge, 2019)
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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Simon Balto, "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago From Red Summer to Black Power" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, "For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss A Mother F*cker Out When Snatching An Edge Ain’t Enough"
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, "Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, DC, 1920-1945" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, "Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Claudrena N. Harold, "Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity" (U Virginia Press, 2018)
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Aug 10, 2019 |
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Lenora Warren, "Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Ryan A. Quintana, "Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Christy Clark-Pujara, "Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island" (NYU Press, 2016)
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Ashley Robertson, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State" (The History Press, 2015)
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Andrew Torget, "Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850" (UNC Press, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Anne Twitty, "Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Thomas A. Foster, "Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Kimberly Welch, "Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music" (Dey St. Books, 2017)
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" (Nightboat Books, 2019)
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Shirletta J. Kinchen, "Black Power in the Bluff City: African American Youth and Student Activism in Memphis, 1965–1975" (U Tennessee Press, 2016)
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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David Varel, "The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Tanisha C. Ford, "Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion" (St. Martins Press, 2019)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Yuko Miki, "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957" (NYU Press, 2017)
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Dorinne Kondo, "Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuana" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of Race" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Christina Proenza-Coles, "American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Amy Murrell Taylor, "Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps" (UNC Press, 2018)
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May 29, 2019 |
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Quincy D. Newell, "Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 21, 2019 |
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Derrick Spires, "The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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May 15, 2019 |
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Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education" (Teachers College Press, 2015)
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May 13, 2019 |
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J Mase III, "And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment, and Inappropriate Jokes About Death"
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May 13, 2019 |
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Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan, "Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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May 07, 2019 |
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
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May 06, 2019 |
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Ernest McGowen III, "African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks and Political Behavior" (UP of Kansas 2017)
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May 06, 2019 |
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Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Andra Gillespie, "Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, Symbols, and Hope" (Manchester UP, 2019)
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Anand Prahlad, "The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir" (U Alaska Press, 2017)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education" (Routledge, 2018)
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, “Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States” (NYU Press, 2016)
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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Michael A. Schoeppner, "Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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LaTanya McQueen, "And It Begins Like This" (Black Lawrence Press, 2018)
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Racquel J. Gates, "Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Brooke Newman, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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Candis Watts Smith, "Black Politics in Transition: Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification" (Routledge, 2019)
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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I. Gould Ellen and J. Steil, "The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Andrew T. Fede, "Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World" (U Georgia Press, 2017)
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Kellie Carter Jackson, "Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence" (U Penn Press, 2019)
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland, "A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Ronald L. Lewis and Robert L. Zangrando, "Walter F. White: The NAACP’s Ambassador for Racial Justice" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a Word in America" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Adrienne Brown, "The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race" (John Hopkins UP, 2017)
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Bianca Williams, “The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Debra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Micah McCrary, "Island in the City" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Elliott J. Gorn, "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Calvin Schermerhorn, "Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris, "Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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Ashley D. Farmer, "New Perspectives of the Black Intellectual Tradition" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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William D. Green, "The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Michael Fischbach, "Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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Maurice J. Hobson, "The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American Artists in the 1960s and 1970s" (Duke UP, 2017)
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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Laura McEnaney, "Postwar: Waging Peace in Chicago" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney, "An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee" (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Adam Malka, "The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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John C. Hajduk, "Music Wars: Money, Politics, and Race in the Construction of Rock and Roll Culture, 1940–1960" (Lexington Books, 2018)
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Sharon Block, "Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Keisha Lindsay, "In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Michael E. Staub, “The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence Between Brown and The Bell Curve” (UNC Press, 2018)
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Ruma Chopra, “Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Yael Ben-zvi, “Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories” (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Vernon Keeve III, “Southern Migrant Mixtape” (Nomadic Press, 2018)
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Alisha Gaines, “Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Bernard Fraga, “The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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R. C. Romano and C. B. Potter, “Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past” (Rutgers UP,
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Caitlin C. Rosenthal, “Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Stefan M. Bradley, “Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League” (NYU Press, 2018)
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Jonathan Shandell, “The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era” (U Iowa Press, 2018)
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Sylvia Chan-Malik, “Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam” (NYU Press, 2018)
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Andrew M. Busch, “City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Stefan M. Wheelock, “Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic” (U Virginia Press, 2015)
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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Treva Lindsey, “Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C.” (U Illinois, 2017)
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Matthew Harper, “The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation” (UNC Press, 2016)
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Laila Amine, “Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Nicholas Grant, “Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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Christina Snyder, “Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Neil Roberts, “A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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Freeden Blume Oeur, “Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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M. Cooper Harriss, “Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Keri Leigh Merrit and Matthew Hild, eds., “Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power” (UP of Florida, 2018)
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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David García, “Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music’s African Origins” (Duke UP, 2017)
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood, “Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston” (UNC Press, 2018)
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Brian Abrams, “Obama: An Oral History, 2009-2017” (Little A, 2018)
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Lessie B. Branch, “Optimism at All Costs: Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama’s America” (U Massachusetts Press, 2018)
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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Judith Weisenfeld, “New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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Kristen Epps, “Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras” (U Georgia Press, 2016)
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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Naomi André, “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Heather Schoenfeld, “Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Vanessa Valdés, “Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg” (SUNY Press, 2018)
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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Wendy Laybourn and Devon Goss, “Diversity in Black Greek-Letter Organizations: Breaking the Line” (Routledge, 2018)
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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J. Samuel Walker, “Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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Ian Rocksborough-Smith, “Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II Into the Cold War” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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Kelley Fanto Deetz, “Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine” (UP of Kentucky, 2017)
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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Tameka Bradley Hobbs, “Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida” (UP of Florida, 2015)
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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Anna-Lisa Cox, “The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality” (PublicAffairs, 2018)
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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Hilary Green, “Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools In The Urban South, 1865-1890” (Fordham UP, 2016)
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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Roger Biles, “Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Martha S. Jones, “Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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Christopher W. Schmidt, “The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jacqueline Jones, “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical” (Basic Books, 2017)
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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Sami Schalk, “Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction” (Duke UP, 2018)
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Sandra Jean Graham, “Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Charles Hughes, “Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Halifu Osumare, “Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir” (UP of Florida, 2018)
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Avidit Acharya et al., “Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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May 30, 2018 |
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Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, “Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy” (The New Press, 2018)
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May 22, 2018 |
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John Munro, “The Anticolonial Front: The African-American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonization” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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May 21, 2018 |
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Katharine Gerbner, “Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
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May 16, 2018 |
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Matthew Karp, “This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at The Helm of American Foreign Policy” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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May 14, 2018 |
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Nancy Mitchell, “Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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May 09, 2018 |
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Lisa A. Lindsay, “Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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Averell Smith, “The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige’s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Keisha N. Blain, “Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom” (U Penn Press, 2018)
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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John Gennari, “Flavor and Soul: Italian America and Its African American Edge” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Greg Berman and Julian Adler, “Start Here: A Roadmap to Reducing Mass Incarceration” (The New Press, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Imani Perry, “May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem” (UNC Press, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Lisa Ze Winters, “The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic” (U Georgia Press, 2016)
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Koritha Mitchell, ed., “Iola Leroy Or, Shadows Uplifted” by Frances E.W. Harper (Broadview Editions, 2018)
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Gary Dorrien, “The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Sharla Fett, “Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Amy Bass, “One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together” (Hachette Books, 2018)
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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Julian Lim, “Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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J. Michael Butler, “Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida 1960-1980” (UNC Press, 2016)
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Marcus Rediker, “The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became The First Revolutionary Abolitionist” (Beacon Press, 2017)
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Matthew Clavin, “Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Kali Nicole Gross, “Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Jeffrey Stewart, “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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Seth Markle, “A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism 1964-1974” (Michigan State UP, 2017).
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Douglas Hartman, “Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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Paul Ortiz, “An African American and Latinx History of the United States” (Beacon Press, 2017)
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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Sridhar Pappu, “The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age” (HMH, 2017)
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, “Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War” (UNC Press, 2016)
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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Robert Hunt Ferguson, “Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi” (U of Georgia Press, 2018)
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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Brian McCammack, “Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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Ula Yvette Taylor, “The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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Elizabeth McRae, “Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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Kay Wright Lewis, “A Curse upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World” (U. Georgia Press, 2017)
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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Corey D. Fields, “Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans” (UC Press, 2016)
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Dec 24, 2017 |
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Ashley D. Farmer, “Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Patrick Breen, “The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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Sowande Mustakeem, “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage” (U. Illinois Press, 2016)
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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Nikki M. Taylor, “Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio” (Ohio U. Press, 2016)
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Stephane Robolin, “Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing” (U. Illinois Press, 2015)
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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Michelle Kuo, “Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, A Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship” (Random House, 2017)
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Nov 26, 2017 |
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Melissa Milewski, “Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to the Civil Rights Era” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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David Goldstein, “Alley-Oop To Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in The Holy Land” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017)
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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Martha J. Cutter, “The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narratives, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1853” (U. Georgia Press, 2017)
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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James Forman Jr., “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017)
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Lisa M. Corrigan, “Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
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Oct 16, 2017 |
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Steve Sheinkin, “The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights” (Roaring Brook, 2014)
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Oct 06, 2017 |
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Vincent J. Intondi, “African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement” (Stanford UP, 2015)
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Anne C. Bailey, “The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Sarah Haley, “No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity” (UNC Press, 2016)
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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Ben H. Winters, “Underground Airlines” (Mulholland Books, 2016)
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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Keri Leigh Merritt, “Masterless Men: Poor Whites in the Antebellum South” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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Beverly Jenkins, “Chasing Down a Dream: A Blessings Novel” (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017)
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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Johari Jabir, “Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s ‘Gospel Army'” (Ohio State UP, 2017)
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Juilet Hooker, “Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars (SUNY Press, 2015)
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Aug 26, 2017 |
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Mitch Kachun, “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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Marcia Walker-McWilliams, “Reverend Addie: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (U. Illinois Press, 2016)
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Tanya Ann Kennedy, “Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture” (SUNY Press, 2017)
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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Rosalind Rosenberg, “Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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Tommy J. Curry, “The Man-Not: Race, Class, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood” (Temple UP, 2017)
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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Ira Dworkin, “Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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Patricia Spears Jones, “A Lucent Fire: New and Collected Poems” (White Pines Press, 2015)
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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Leigh Fought, “Women in the World of Frederick Douglass” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 16, 2017 |
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Max Krochmal, “Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era” (UNC, 2016)
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Marlene Banks, “Ruth’s Redemption” (Lift Every Voice, 2012)
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Brittney C. Cooper, “Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
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Jun 26, 2017 |
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Jeanine Michna-Bales, “Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017)
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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Michelle D. Commander, “Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic” (Duke UP, 2017)
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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Kathy Wilson Florence, “Jaybird’s Song” (Kathy Wilson Florence, 2017)
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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Michael W. Twitty, “The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South” (Amistad, 2017)
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Tom Adam Davies, “Mainstreaming Black Power” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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Shelvy Haywood Keglar, “Underdog to Top Dog: An Improbable Rise” (IBJ, 2017)
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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John P. Langellier, “Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army” (Schiffer, 2016)
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch, “Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family” (Columbia UP, 2017)
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Jun 02, 2017 |
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Paul Youngquist, “A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism” (U. Texas Press, 2016)
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May 27, 2017 |
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Christopher Mele, “Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City” (NYU Press, 2017)
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May 27, 2017 |
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Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017)
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May 26, 2017 |
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Ashon T. Crawley, “Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility” (Fordham UP, 2016)
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May 19, 2017 |
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Melissa L. Cooper, “Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination” (UNC Press, 2017)
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May 19, 2017 |
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Stanley Corkin, “Connecting the Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore” (U. Texas Press, 2017)
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May 16, 2017 |
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Sarah Bracey White, “Primary Lessons: A Memoir” (CavanKerry Press, 2013)
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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Stafanie Deluca, et.al. “Coming of Age in the Other America” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2016)
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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Samuele F.S. Pardini, “In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen” (Dartmouth, 2017)
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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James A. Cosby, “Devil’s Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies: How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll” (McFarland, 2016)
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, “Remixing Reggaeton: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Apr 12, 2017 |
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Marlene Banks, “Son of A Preacher Man” and “Greenwood and Archer” (Lift Every Voice, 2012)
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Apr 05, 2017 |
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Daina Ramey Berry, “The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation” (Beacon Press, 2017)
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Apr 05, 2017 |
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Race and Democratic Virtue with Paul C. Taylor
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Apr 05, 2017 |
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Ruth Beckford and Careth Reid, “The Picture Man: From the Collection of Bay Area Photographer E. F. Joseph” (Arcadia, 2017)
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mia Mask, “Divas on the Screen: Black Women in American Film” (U. of Illinois Press, 2009)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Steve Aldous, “The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series” (McFarland, 2015)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Quincy T. Mills, “Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America” (UPenn Press, 2013)
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Mar 25, 2017 |
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James McGrath Morris, “Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press” (Amistad, Reprint Edition, 2017)
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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Patrick Phillips, “Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America” (W.W. Norton, 2016)
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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Tyina Steptoe, “Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City” (U. California Press, 2015)
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Andre Carrington, “Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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Jeroen Dewulf, “The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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Amy Brown, “A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School (U. Minnesota Press, 2015)
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Kerry Pimblott, “Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois” (U. Press of Kentucky, 2016)
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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Deborah Hopkinson “Steamboat School” (Jump At the Sun, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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Carol Hardy-Fanta and Dianne Pinderhughes, “Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken, “Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Feb 04, 2017 |
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Robyn C. Spencer, “The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland” (Duke UP, 2016)
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Holly Charles, “Velvet” (AuthorHouse, 2013)
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Jan 25, 2017 |
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Tom Rice, “White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan” (Indiana U. Press, 2016)
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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Toni Pressley-Sanon, “Zombifying a Nation: Race, Gender and the Haitian Loas on Screen” (McFarland, 2016)
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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Patrick Phillips, “Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America” (W.W. Norton, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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Ben Westhhoff, “Original Gangtas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap” (Hachette, 2016)
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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Manisha Sinha, “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” (Yale UP, 2016).
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Jan 06, 2017 |
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Sylvester Johnson, “African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Timothy S. Huebner, “Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism” (U. Press of Kansas, 2016)
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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Bill V. Mullen, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line,” (Pluto Press, 2016)
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Dec 17, 2016 |
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Jane Eppinga, “Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point’s First Black Graduate” (Wild Horse Press, 2015)
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Dec 09, 2016 |
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Corey D. Fields, “Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans” (U. of California Press, 2016)
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Nov 21, 2016 |
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Paul C. Taylor, “Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics” (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Ashaki Jackson, “Surveillance” (Writ Large Press, 2016)
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Nov 09, 2016 |
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Susan Greenbaum, “Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty” (Rutgers UP, 2015)
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Nov 06, 2016 |
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LaShawn Harris, “Sex Workers, Psychics and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy” (U. of Illinois Press, 2016)
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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Ethan Michaeli, “The Defender: How The Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016)
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Natalie Byfield, “Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story” (Temple UP, 2014)
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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Thomas Aiello, “The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate that Shaped the Course of Civil Rights” (ABC-CLIO, 2016)
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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Jack Hamilton, “Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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Elizabeth Reich, “Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
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Oct 10, 2016 |
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Eric Gardner, “Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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Marisa J. Fuentes, “Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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Ibram X. Kendi, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (Nation Books, 2016)
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Loki Mulholland, et.al. “She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland” (Shadow Mountain, 2016)
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Carol McCabe Booker, ed. “Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan” (U. of Georgia Press, 2015)
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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Benjamin Fagan, “The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation” (U. of Georgia Press, 2016)
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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Russell Rickford, “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jul 31, 2016 |
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Jon Hale, “The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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Susan Cahan, “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” (Duke UP, 2016)
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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April R. Haynes, “Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 16, 2016 |
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Anthea Kraut, “Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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Bert Ashe, “Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles” (Agate Bolden, 2015)
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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Ed Berlin, “King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Gabriel Mendes, “Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Edlie Wong, “Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship” (NYU Press, 2015)
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Alfred Frankowski, “The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Towards a Political Sense of Mourning” (Lexington Press, 2015)
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Jason Bivins, “Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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May 31, 2016 |
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Jonathon S. Kahn and Vincent W. Lloyd, editors, “Race And Secularism in America” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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May 28, 2016 |
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Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, “Power and Latino, Black, and White Relations in the Twenty-First Century” (U of Virginia Press, 2015)
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May 23, 2016 |
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Lester K. Spence, “Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics” (Punctum Books, 2016)
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May 16, 2016 |
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Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, “Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X” (Basic Books, 2016)
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Apr 30, 2016 |
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Keenanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” (Haymarket Books, 2016)
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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Kimberly Fain, “Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies” (Praeger, 2015)
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Apr 03, 2016 |
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Steve Phillips, “Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority” (The New Press, 2016)
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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James Davis, “Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean” (Columbia University Press, 2015)
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Feb 24, 2016 |
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Jessica Parr, “Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon” (UP of Mississippi, 2015)
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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Aisha Durham, “Home With Hip Hop Feminism” (Peter Lang, 2014)
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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Eric Foner, “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad” (Norton, 2015)
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Jan 05, 2016 |
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Neil Roberts, “Freedom as Marronage” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Dec 18, 2015 |
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Jodi Eichler-Levine, “Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature” (NYU Press, 2013)
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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Phil Ford, “Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Dec 09, 2015 |
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Kimberly Fain, “Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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Daniel Geary, “Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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Debra Majeed, “Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands” (UP of Florida, 2015)
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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Gregory O’Malley, “Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807” (UNC Press for the Omohundro Institute, 2014)
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Sep 26, 2015 |
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Sonja D. Williams “Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
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Sep 23, 2015 |
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Leah Wright Rigueur, “The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Aug 16, 2015 |
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Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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Laura F. Edwards, “A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Jul 26, 2015 |
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Mia E. Bay, et al., “Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Jul 26, 2015 |
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David George Surdham, “The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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Carlos Kevin Blanton, “George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration” (Yale UP, 2015)
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Jul 12, 2015 |
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Julian E. Zelizer, “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society” (Penguin, 2015)
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Jul 06, 2015 |
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Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox, “Running from Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned off to Politics” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jun 28, 2015 |
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Ted A. Smith, “Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics” (Stanford UP, 2014)
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Jun 23, 2015 |
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Philip A. Wallach, “To The Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis” (Brookings, 2015)
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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Akinyele Omowale Umoja, “We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement” (NYU Press, 2013)
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Andrew Hartman, “The War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Rory Carroll, “Comandante: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela” (Penguin Books, 2013)
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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Charis Thompson, “Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research” (MIT Press, 2013)
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Jun 08, 2015 |
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Kevin M. Schultz, “Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties” (W. W. Norton, 2015)
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky, “The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jun 01, 2015 |
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Miriam Pawel, “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” (Bloomsbury Press, 2014)
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May 29, 2015 |
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Michelle Ann Stephens, “Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and the Black Male Performer” (Duke UP, 2014)
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May 28, 2015 |
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Beatrix Hoffman, “Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930” (U of Chicago, 2012)
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May 28, 2015 |
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Julian E. Zelizer, “The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society” (Penguin Press, 2015)
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May 22, 2015 |
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Lawrence Jacobs, “Who Governs? Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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May 18, 2015 |
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Mariana Candido, “An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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Kirt von Daacke, “Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson’s Virginia” (UVA Press, 2012)
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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Paula T. Connolly, “Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010” (U of Iowa Press, 2013)
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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Carolyn Finney, “Black Faces, White Spaces” (UNC Press, 2014)
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos, “Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America” (Oxford UP 2014)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Kaeten Mistry, “The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Mar 11, 2015 |
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David Krugler, “1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Feb 13, 2015 |
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Randy J. Sparks, “Where the Negroes Are Masters” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Jan 01, 2015 |
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Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, “Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood” (UNC Press 2014)
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Dec 29, 2014 |
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Jeff Smith, “Ferguson in Black and White” (Kindle Single, 2014)
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Dec 22, 2014 |
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Dick Lehr, “The Birth of a Nation” (PublicAffairs, 2014)
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Dec 19, 2014 |
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Jason Sokol, “All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn” (Basic Books, 2014)
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Dec 17, 2014 |
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Cathy L. Schneider, “Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
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Dec 08, 2014 |
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Brian Purnell, “Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings” (UP of Kentucky, 2014)
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Nov 25, 2014 |
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Candis Watts Smith, “Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity” (NYU Press, 2014)
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Nov 18, 2014 |
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Edward E. Andrews, “Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Nov 07, 2014 |
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Eric Allen Hall, “Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
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Nov 04, 2014 |
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John Morrow and Jeffrey Sammons, “Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War” (University Press of Kansas, 2014)
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Nov 04, 2014 |
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Catherine W. Bishir, ‘Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900’ (UNC Press, 2013)
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Oct 28, 2014 |
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Melvin Ely, “Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War” (Vintage Books, 2004)
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Oct 21, 2014 |
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Janet Sims-Wood, “Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University” (The History Press, 2014)
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Oct 15, 2014 |
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Adam Ewing, “The Age Of Garvey: How A Jamaican Activist Created A Mass Movement And Changed Global Black Politics” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Oct 09, 2014 |
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Lauren Araiza, ‘To March for Others: The United Farm Workers and the Black Freedom Movement’ (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
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Sep 24, 2014 |
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Karl Spracklen, “Whiteness and Leisure” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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Sep 12, 2014 |
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Edward E. Baptist, “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (Basic Books, 2014)
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Sep 08, 2014 |
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Gabriel Solis, “Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Sep 07, 2014 |
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Bruce Ackerman, “We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Aug 02, 2014 |
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Toby Green, “The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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Jul 30, 2014 |
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Lorena Turner, “The Michael Jacksons” (Little Moth Press, 2014)
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Jul 23, 2014 |
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Abigail Perkiss, “Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia” (Cornell UP, 2014)
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Jul 16, 2014 |
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Robert E. Gutsche Jr., “A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place and the Press in Iowa City” (McFarland, 2014)
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Jul 01, 2014 |
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Ian Haney Lopez, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jun 30, 2014 |
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Luke E. Harlow, “Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Jun 26, 2014 |
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David Williams, “I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Jun 05, 2014 |
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Christine Knauer, “Let Us Fight as Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
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May 20, 2014 |
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Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
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Apr 15, 2014 |
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Marc Myers “Why Jazz Happened” (University of California Press, 2014)
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Apr 06, 2014 |
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Arica L. Coleman, “That the Blood Stay Pure” (Indiana UP, 2014)
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Mar 18, 2014 |
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N. Jeremi Duru, “Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
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Mar 06, 2014 |
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Kevin Quashie, “The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture” (Rutgers UP, 2012)
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Feb 17, 2014 |
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Aram Goudsouzian, “Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear” (FSG, 2014)
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Feb 12, 2014 |
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Adam Henig, “Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey” (2014)
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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Ravi K. Perry, “Black Mayors, White Majorities: The Balancing Act of Racial Politics” (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
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Feb 03, 2014 |
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Cindy Hooper, “Conflict: African American Women and the New Dilemma of Race and Gender Politics” (Praeger Press, 2012)
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Jan 29, 2014 |
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Amy L. Wood, “Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940” (UNC Press, 2011)
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Jan 25, 2014 |
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Keith Waters, “The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-1968” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Jan 18, 2014 |
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Christina Greer, “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Jan 13, 2014 |
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Nathaniel Millett, “The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World” (UP of Florida, 2013)
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Dec 20, 2013 |
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Julia H. Lee, “Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937” (NYU Press, 2011)
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Dec 18, 2013 |
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Susan D. Carle, “Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Dec 02, 2013 |
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Matthew L. Basso, “Meet Joe Copper: Maculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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Nov 09, 2013 |
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Simon P. Newman, “A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
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Oct 10, 2013 |
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Robert Cassanello, “To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville” (University Press of Florida, 2013)
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Sep 30, 2013 |
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W. Caleb McDaniel, “The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform” (LSU Press, 2013)
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Sep 20, 2013 |
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John K. Thornton, “A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820” (Cambridge UP, 2012).
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Sep 12, 2013 |
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Brian Harker, “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Sep 02, 2013 |
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Sikivu Hutchinson, “Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels” (Infidel Books, 2013)
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Aug 12, 2013 |
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Matthew W. Hughey, “White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race” (Stanford UP, 2012)
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Aug 09, 2013 |
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Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, “The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America” (UNC Press, 2012)
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Jul 25, 2013 |
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Carmen Kynard, “Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies” (SUNY Press, 2013)
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Jul 18, 2013 |
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H. Paul Thompson Jr., “A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865-1887” (NIU Press, 2012)
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Jul 08, 2013 |
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Keith Clark, “The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry” (Louisiana State UP, 2013)
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Jun 23, 2013 |
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Marc Mauer, “Race to Incarcerate” (New Press, 2013)
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Jun 18, 2013 |
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Monica R. Miller, “Religion and Hip Hop” (Routledge, 2012)
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Jun 03, 2013 |
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Alexis Wilson, “Not So Black and White” (Tree Spirit Publishing, 2012)
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Jun 03, 2013 |
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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, “Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston” (UNC Press, 2011)
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May 31, 2013 |
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Marcus Rediker “The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom” (Viking, 2012)
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May 24, 2013 |
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Henry Wiencek, “Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves” (FSG, 2012)
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May 15, 2013 |
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Andre Williams, “Dividing Lines: Social Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction” (University of Michigan, 2013)
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May 08, 2013 |
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Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber, “Becoming Jimi Hendrix” (Da Capo, 2010)
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May 03, 2013 |
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Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen, “Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop” (W.W. Norton, 2012)
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Apr 25, 2013 |
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Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin, “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party” (University of California Press, 2013)
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Apr 17, 2013 |
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Vladimir Alexandrov, “The Black Russian” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013)
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Apr 03, 2013 |
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Peter Benjaminson, “Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar” (Chicago Review Press, 2012)
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Mar 09, 2013 |
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Reiland Rabaka, “Hip Hop’s Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women’s Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement” (Lexington Books, 2012)
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Feb 19, 2013 |
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Michael P. Jeffries, “Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Feb 16, 2013 |
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Andra Gillespie, “The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America” (NYU Press, 2012)
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Feb 08, 2013 |
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Stephen G. Hall, “A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America” (UNC Press, 2009)
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Feb 08, 2013 |
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Richard W. Leeman and Bernard Duffy, “The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012)
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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Stephen Caliendo and Charlton McIlwain, “Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in US Political Campaigns” (Temple University Press 2011)
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Jan 22, 2013 |
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Carla L. Peterson, “Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale UP, 2011)
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Jan 18, 2013 |
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Preston Lauterbach, “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll” (W. W. Norton, 2011)
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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Marcia Alesan Dawkins, “Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity” (Baylor UP, 2012)
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Jan 11, 2013 |
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Yael Tamar Lewin, “Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins” (Wesleyan UP, 2011)
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Jan 11, 2013 |
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Meredith Roman, “Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of US Racism, 1928-1937” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Dec 21, 2012 |
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Sikivu Hutchinson, “Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars” (Infidel Books, 2011)
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Dec 13, 2012 |
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Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)
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Nov 14, 2012 |
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Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, “Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life” (Verso Books, 2012)
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Nov 11, 2012 |
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Peggy Schwartz and Murray Schwartz, “The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus” (Yale UP, 2012)
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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Michele Elam, “The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium” (Stanford UP, 2011)
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Oct 31, 2012 |
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Donald Spivey, “‘If You Were Only White’: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige” (University of Missouri Press, 2012)
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Oct 25, 2012 |
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David Kirby, “Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Continuum, 2009)
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Oct 02, 2012 |
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Peter Hoffer, “Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739” (Oxford, 2010)
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Sep 26, 2012 |
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Theresa Runstedtler, “Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line” (University of California Press, 2012)
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Sep 24, 2012 |
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Reiland Rabaka, “Hip Hop’s Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement” (Lexington Books, 2011)
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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Brenda Dixon Gottschild, “Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011)
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Aug 29, 2012 |
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Minkah Makalani, “In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939” (UNC Press, 2011)
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Aug 15, 2012 |
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Charlotte Pierce-Baker, “This Fragile Life: A Mother’s Story of a Bipolar Son” (Lawrence Hill Books, 2012)
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Jul 30, 2012 |
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Erica R. Edwards, “Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership” (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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Koritha Mitchell, “Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930” (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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Kelly Baker, “Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930” (University Press of Kansas, 2011)
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Jun 24, 2012 |
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David J. Leonard, “After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness” (SUNY Press, 2012)
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Jun 15, 2012 |
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Enid Logan, “At this Defining Moment: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race” (NYU Press, 2011)
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Jun 08, 2012 |
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Erin D. Chapman, “Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s” (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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May 29, 2012 |
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Kevin Whitehead, “Why Jazz? A Concise Guide” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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May 21, 2012 |
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Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (University of California Press, 2011)
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May 17, 2012 |
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Vershawn Young, “From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances” (Wayne State UP, 2011)
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May 07, 2012 |
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Manning Marable, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” (Penguin, 2011)
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May 01, 2012 |
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Matthew Delmont, “The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia” (University of California Press, 2011)
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Apr 20, 2012 |
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Elizabeth West, “African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature, and Being” (Lexington Books, 2011)
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, “Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color” (Rutgers UP, 2012)
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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Mia Bay, “To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells” (Hill and Wang, 2009)
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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Vorris Nunley, “Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric” (Wayne State UP, 2011)
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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Randy Roberts, “Joe Louis: Hard Times Man” (Yale UP, 2010)
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Keith Gilyard, “True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy” (Routledge, 2011)
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Dec 22, 2011 |
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Jerald Walker, “Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption” (Bantam Books, 2010)
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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Kitty Kelley, “Oprah: A Biography” (Three Rivers Press, 2011)
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Nov 15, 2011 |
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Daniel Sharfstein, “The Invisible line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White” (Penguin, 2011)
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Nov 01, 2011 |
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Lester K. Spence, “Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
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Oct 25, 2011 |
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Pierre W. Orelus, “The Agony of Masculinity: Race, Gender, and Education in the Age of the ‘New’ Racism and Patriarchy” (Peter Lang, 2010)
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Oct 17, 2011 |
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Dave Zirin, “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World” (Haymarket Books, 2011)
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Oct 04, 2011 |
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Ron Christie, “Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010)
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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Scott Brooks, “Black Men Can’t Shoot” (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Charles McKinney, Jr., “Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina” (UPA, 2010)
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Sep 16, 2011 |
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James Unnever and Shaun L. Gabbidon, “A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime” (Routledge, 2011)
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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Miriam Thaggert, “Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)
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Aug 31, 2011 |
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Daniel Black, “Perfect Peace” (St. Martin’s Press, 2010)
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Aug 24, 2011 |
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Robert Thurston, “Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective” (Ashgate, 2011)
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Aug 05, 2011 |
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Houston A. Baker, “Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era” (Columbia UP, 2008)
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Aug 04, 2011 |
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Frank Dobson, Jr., “Rendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks and Whites, Love and Death” (Plain View Press, 2010)
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Jul 21, 2011 |
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Deborah Whaley, “Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities” (SUNY, 2010)
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Jul 15, 2011 |
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Nikky Finney, “Head Off and Split: Poems” (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP, 2010)
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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Harvey Young, “Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body” (University of Michigan, 2010)
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Eric C. Schneider, “Smack: Heroin and the American City” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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Kwasi Konadu, “The Akan Diaspora in the Americas” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Jun 09, 2011 |
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Elizabeth Abel, “Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow” (University of California Press, 2010)
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Jun 07, 2011 |
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Alan Nadel, “August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle” (University of Iowa Press, 2010)
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May 30, 2011 |
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Blair Ruble, “Washington’s U Street: A Biography” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)
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May 18, 2011 |
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Chad L. Williams, “Torchbearers of Democracy: African-American Soldiers in the World War I Era” (The University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
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May 13, 2011 |
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Jonathan Metzl, “The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease” (Beacon Press, 2010)
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May 04, 2011 |
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Charles Lane, “The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction” (Henry Holt, 2008)
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Mar 11, 2011 |
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Nell Irvin Painter, “The History of White People” (Norton, 2010)
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Jan 14, 2011 |
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Kyra Hicks, “This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers’ Bible Quilt and Other Pieces” (Black Threads Press, 2009)
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Nov 19, 2010 |
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Aram Goudsouzian, “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (University of California, 2010)
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Oct 12, 2010 |
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Todd Moye, “Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Jul 23, 2010 |
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Amy Bass, “Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle Over W. E. B. Du Bois” (Minnesota UP, 2009)
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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Jack Greene and Philip Morgan, “Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal” (Oxford UP, 2008)
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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Leslie Schwalm, “Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest” (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
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Jul 31, 2009 |
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Matt Wasniewski, et al., “Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007” (U.S. House of Representatives, 2008)
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Jan 15, 2009 |
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Colin Grant, “Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey” (Oxford UP, 2008)
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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Colin Gordon, “Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
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May 09, 2008 |
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Eric Gardner, “Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West” (University Press of Mississippi, 2008)
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Apr 09, 2008 |
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Kevin Mumford, “Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America” (New York UP, 2007)
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Feb 15, 2008 |