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Deborah Willis
Professor of Photography at NYU and author
New York University
Episode: Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2025)
Calvin Schermerhorn
Professor at Arizona State University and author
Arizona State University
Episode: Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
Dr. Jonathan White
Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University
Christopher Newport University
Episode: Jonathan White and Lucas Morel, "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln" (Reedy Press, 2025)
Marcus Rediker
World-renowned historian of transatlantic slavery.
Viking Publishers
Episode: Marcus Rediker, "Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea" (Penguin Group, 2025)
Dr. Jessica B. Harris
Culinary historian and author of over 17 books
Clarkson Potter
Episode: Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
Dr. Patrice D. Douglass
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Episode: Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Dr. Tracie Canada
Assistant professor of Culture and Anthropology at Duke University
Duke University
Episode: Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
Gregg Mitman
Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Episode: Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
Steve Luxenberg
Author of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
Washington Post
Episode: Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher
One of the hosts, focusing on engaging scholars about their recent work
Sullivan Summer
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4.5 out of 5 stars from 205 ratings
  • They always feature my fav scholars and thinkers

    Anytime 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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    5
    @bodegaautumn
    United States5 months ago
  • Varied and interesting

    So many excellent authors discuss their books on this podcast that I wouldn’t have found out about otherwise. Thank you for this great channel of information!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sol na Laje
    United Kingdom2 years ago
  • Host needs moderation work

    First, 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 sk... more

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    technique over topics
    United States2 years ago
  • Really

    Are there African Americans who write books on African American history? Really!?!? Do better or end this.

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    Clone B.
    United States2 years ago
  • 15 January 2023

    Very informative, thank you.

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    😉💙🙃
    United States3 years ago

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Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
Q: What does Kawaida mean and how does it relate to the Black Power movement?
Kawaida, conceived in the 1960s, is an African-centered philosophy that addresses liberation struggles, answering the needs of African Americans beyond the civil rights movement into the Black Power era.
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
Q: Can you talk about the book's connection to Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Dr. McCray reflects on how her experiences as a black woman activist resonate with Ta-Nehisi Coates' exploration of manhood within activism, noting that her perspective was shaped by her identity as a woman.
Nicholas Bromell, "The Time is Always Now: Black Political Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2013)
Q: Can you speak to the question of why mainstream political thought may overlook the thought of black political thinkers?
Bromell points to the different standpoints of African Americans facing unfreedom and how this perspective shapes their critique of democracy.
Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
Q: What lessons from your research best explain the persistence of the racial wealth gap?
The need to address systemic policies that strip black wealth and impede African American income.
Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
Q: What motivated you to write The Plunder of Black America?
To understand racial inequality beyond just politics, focusing on how wealth is the leading indicator.

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