Recent Episodes
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Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
Jun 11, 2025 – 01:19:10 -
Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)
Jun 10, 2025 – 47:17 -
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
Jun 6, 2025 – 01:02:39 -
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Jun 3, 2025 – 01:06:47 -
Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 30, 2025 – 01:02:32 -
Karida L. Brown, "The Battle for the Black Mind" (Legacy Lit, 2025)
May 27, 2025 – 01:03:53 -
Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
May 24, 2025 – 01:24:30 -
Rasheedah Phillips, "Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time" (AK Press, 2025)
May 16, 2025 – 58:11 -
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 14, 2025 – 51:56 -
James B. Haile III, "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" (Columbia UP, 2024)
May 13, 2025 – 01:18:30 -
Ariel Nereson, "Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
May 11, 2025 – 32:04 -
William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
May 10, 2025 – 49:02 -
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
May 9, 2025 – 42:33 -
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
May 5, 2025 – 56:12 -
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
May 2, 2025 – 54:58 -
Vanessa Priya Daniel, "Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning" (Random House, 2025)
May 1, 2025 – 53:16 -
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Apr 29, 2025 – 55:43 -
Frederick Knight, "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:14:03 -
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
Apr 26, 2025 – 01:12:55 -
Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Apr 25, 2025 – 01:03:33 -
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
Apr 22, 2025 – 46:19 -
Reginald K. Ellis et al., "Black Citizens and American Democracy: Fighting for the Soul of a Nation" (UP of Florida, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025 – 27:48 -
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:16:38 -
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
Apr 15, 2025 – 27:43 -
Maurice Jackson, "Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
Apr 14, 2025 – 57:35 -
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Apr 13, 2025 – 36:04 -
Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024)
Apr 12, 2025 – 45:41 -
Forest Issac Jones, "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972" (First Hill Books, 2025)
Apr 10, 2025 – 26:59 -
Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
Apr 6, 2025 – 54:14 -
Julie Malnig, "Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 5, 2025 – 48:05 -
Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025)
Apr 4, 2025 – 01:09:08 -
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Apr 3, 2025 – 01:01:58 -
Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Apr 2, 2025 – 01:11:44 -
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:07:24 -
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
Mar 22, 2025 – 01:14:16 -
Victoria Christopher Murray, "Harlem Rhapsody" (Berkley, 2025)
Mar 21, 2025 – 37:27 -
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
Mar 19, 2025 – 39:14 -
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Mar 15, 2025 – 01:04:48 -
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 14, 2025 – 01:05:57 -
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 11, 2025 – 01:15:43 -
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
Mar 10, 2025 – 01:04:26 -
Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:07:40 -
Jack Dempsey, "Warriors for Liberty: William Dollarson & Michigan's Civil War African Americans" (Michigan Civil War Association, 2024)
Mar 4, 2025 – 38:51 -
Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro, "The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa" (Phaidon Press, 2024)
Feb 28, 2025 – 24:33 -
Mike Sielski, "Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Feb 26, 2025 – 58:16 -
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
Feb 23, 2025 – 54:20 -
William M. Paris, "Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 20, 2025 – 01:12:17 -
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Feb 19, 2025 – 57:12 -
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
Feb 18, 2025 – 47:14 -
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
Feb 17, 2025 – 38:49
Recent Reviews
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@bodegaautumnThey always feature my fav scholars and thinkersAnytime I’m looking to learn more about a new author that I️ come across, chances are, they’ve already been interviewed by you all!
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technique over topicsHost needs moderation workFirst, honor and excitement for this podcast — Listened to the “Silencing the Past” Trouillot episode which brought together some stellar scholars to a round table to discuss the impact of the text in our recent years, in and following 2020. Interspersed between scholars’ remarks about the text or social events, McNeil might chime in, “that’s really interesting” or “wow, that’s incredible” or but added so very little in the way of building, or drawing connections between ideas, I found myself skipping past his commentary and back to the scholars. Interviewing is a craft to be sure, and I’m not sure this host has it down yet, which makes listening to what is otherwise a powerful source for AfAm literature and scholarship a bit painful.
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Clone B.ReallyAre there African Americans who write books on African American history? Really!?!? Do better or end this.
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😉💙🙃15 January 2023Very informative, thank you.
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Jan 122How do you have a show about African American centered literature and only highlight white authors?Echo chamber of white authors speaking from their white perspective on black history, when there are plenty of Black established authors writing on the same topics. White liberalism at its peak. do better
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jayshawnkinglovelove the podcast, very engaging. both of tremendous scope and depth but would like to hear air sirens, funk flex dropping bombs or similar signs of life amidst the scholarly discourse.
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Dr. Jalondra DavisInformative and helpfulI love this podcast. As a scholar it helps me keep up in the new books in the field and learn about topics in titles I may not have time to read myself. I find the interviewers to always be well informed and prepared and the scholars incredible impressive.
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Calina HolteGame changer in the form of a podcast!If you want to understand American history in real terms, listen to this podcast. My level of engagement and understanding of the plight of American people (past present and future), lives the scholarly exchanges covered in this podcast.
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Camelot9Important show, but........I think this is an important podcast and an excellent way to get the latest on new, interesting books. But the structure of the show, at least the questions, don't make me want to buy the books. The interviews seemed geared for other scholars as a lot of the conversation steers toward the process of writing the book. Not what was found in the book. Case in point, "Rethinking Rufus," I would have loved to hear a discussion about some of the things and stories that Foster found and what did that mean and how does it relate now. Also, the questions are usually long and rambling and the answers are ongoing. I would love to hear more of an actual discussion. Not to compare, but I would suggest listening to an author interview by NPR's Dave Davies. They are excellent and he is in and out with a clear focus. As are the authors. Again, this is an important project, but it can be so much better.
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TlexYes yes & YESSSSS!!!There is such a need for this that’s it frightens me how much we are behind in African-American Studies. We are America TOO & while that is not said to diminish anyone else’s contributions, we have not been acknowledged for quite some time. With that being said, I enjoy the podcast as well as many others under the “New Books” series!!! THANK YOU!
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BookBuyer71Like the books, hosts can do betterI really appreciate the book topics and the authors who discuss their background and writings. Unfortunately, as other reviewers have said, some of the hosts don’t seem prepared and the resulting conversation is often awkward and uneven.
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dakaraiflI think this podcast is very necessary.My only objection is that some of the interviewers/ reviewers seem not fully prepared when engaging the authors. I suggest that interviewers think through and write down questions/ question topics, and be concise in asking the questions (this may cut down on the number of “ums”) Also, quite frankly, some of the interviewers talk too much; engage the authors and let them speak. Otherwise, great and necessary podcast!
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Daniel Berlin BrigadeThe "narrative"A little chaotic as the talks are by people from all over the place. This is a Leftist view of history for the most part, and words such as "gender, femininization, resistance, race, violence yadah yadah yada" are a plenty. It is unfortunate that academia ( if you want to call it that ) is weaponized and tell's a "story". One Lady even openly admits that there was so few sources she just made it up. Terrible.
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