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African American Studies
Interviews with scholars of African America about their new books.
May 13, 2024
The Sisterhood
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Bl…
May 13, 2024
The Black Ceiling
America's elite law firms, investment banks, and management consulting firms are known for grueling hours, low odds of promotion, and personnel practi…
May 12, 2024
The Chosen We
The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2023) elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Blac…
May 10, 2024
An Unholy Traffic
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died …
May 10, 2024
Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess
Dr. Kendra Y. Hamilton’s Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess (University of Georgia Press, 2024) is a literary and cultural history of t…
May 7, 2024
Vodou en Vogue
In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals…
May 6, 2024
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia (Temple UP, 2022) provides an in-depth historical anal…
May 2, 2024
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother’s presence. She soon realized tha…
April 30, 2024
Gray Areas
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to adv…
April 29, 2024
Black Freethinkers
Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) by Christopher Cameron, an Associate Professor of h…
April 28, 2024
Southern Enclosure
Historians of the American South have come to consider the mechanization and consolidation of cotton farming—the “Southern enclosure movement”—to be a…
April 26, 2024
Kings of the Garden
In Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City (Three Hills, 2024), Adam J. Criblez traces the fall and rise of the New York Knicks betwee…
April 21, 2024
Migrants Who Care
As the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increase…
April 21, 2024
America’s New Racial Battle Lines
What is happening to the politics of race in America? In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair (U Chicago Press, 2024), Rogers Sm…
April 20, 2024
A Phenomenology for Women of Color
How can we understand the changing power of race and gender to shape our reality? How shared is reality? Can narratives of experience help us develop …
April 19, 2024
Our Secret Society
An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who r…
April 15, 2024
The Darkened Light of Faith
Political Theorist Melvin L. Rogers has a deep and rich new book delving into the work of a host of different African American political thinkers. But…
April 14, 2024
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2024), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on …
April 14, 2024
Make Your Own History
One hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History: T…
April 13, 2024
The Simple Art of Rice
The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table (Flatiron Books, 2023) is a cookbook celebrating the versatility of …