New Books in African American Studies

1774 Episodes

1. Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)

   Published: 7/22/2025
2. Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)

   Published: 7/19/2025
3. Sabrina L. Hom, "Critical Mixed Race Philosophy: Rethinking Kinship and Identity" (Lexington Books, 2025)

   Published: 7/19/2025
4. Ahmad Greene-Hayes, "Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/18/2025
5. Jeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/14/2025
6. Andrew S. Berish, "Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/10/2025
7. Joseph Darda, "Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

   Published: 7/7/2025
8. Michael Amoruso, "Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil" (UNC Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/6/2025
9. John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)

   Published: 7/5/2025
10. Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox ed., "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)

    Published: 7/3/2025
11. Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1895" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)

    Published: 7/1/2025
12. Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)

    Published: 6/29/2025
13. Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)

    Published: 6/27/2025
14. Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?

    Published: 6/25/2025
15. Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America"

    Published: 6/24/2025
16. Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)

    Published: 6/24/2025
17. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)

    Published: 6/20/2025
18. Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)

    Published: 6/17/2025
19. Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)

    Published: 6/17/2025
20. Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)

    Published: 6/11/2025