New Books in African American Studies
Hosted by Sullivan Summer and Miranda Melcher · New Books Network
4.6from 195 ratings
- 1,929
- Episodes
- 428
- Transcribed
- 195
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2008
- First episode
- 243
- YouTube views
About New Books in African American Studies
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/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
- Publisher
- New Books Network
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Feb 2008
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
428 of 1,929 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children with Stacey Patton (Beacon Press, 2026)
3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2026)
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The Centrality of Slavery: Empire and Enslavement in Colonial Illinois and Missouri with John Craig Hammond (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So how do enslavers gain their power? And then how do they maintain that power? And then how do they exercise that power over the people who they enslave? And then how do enslaved people resist enslavers power there? And as you insinuated there, Matt, I come across pretty clearly on the side of the state that the power that enslavers have, they get their power from the state. And it's a central theme of the book there that without the imperial states in the region propping up, enslavers, without imperial states in the region giving power to enslavers or disciplining, using violence on the bodies of enslaved people, you're going to be an enslaver for very long there. […]
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- Stacey Patton
- Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Rahim Kurwa
- Nicholas P Wood
- Marcia Chatelain
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- YouTube views
- 243
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 171 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 24 ratings
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- 72
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- 97
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