New Books in African American Studies

1779 Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 1/22/2025
7. Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

   Published: 1/15/2025
8. Anthony Walton, "The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation" (David R. Godine, 2024)

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 1/2/2025
15. Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/31/2024