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New Books in African American Studies
About this podcast
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/…
Recent episodes
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- Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)13 Oct · 1 h 03 min
- The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)8 Oct · 49 min
- Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children with Stacey Patton (Beacon Press, 2026)6 Oct · 57 min
- Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2026)3 Oct · 1 h 09 min
- Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing with Rahim Kurwa (U California Press, 2025)2 Oct · 54 min