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Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland (Rutgers University Press, 2025) considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the

process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to ... more

While Lexington and Concord claim significance as the sites of the American Revolution’s opening battles, New York City’s geography, population density, and cultural status made it one of the most important theaters of the war. Between 1776 and 1777,... more

What if children’s literature was never as innocent as we imagine?

In Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement (Johns

Hopkins University Press, 2026), the relationship between childhood

reading and Atlantic slavery is br... more

Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America (Rutgers University Press, 2025) is

an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten

Island, New York, home to the largest per capita concentration of

Liberians in the U.S., that sheds l... more

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Deirdre Daughtry
Professor of Education at Knox College and author of Race and Place, School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland
Knox College
Episode: Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Kamau Ware
Founder/leader of Black Gotham Experience
Black Gotham Experience
Episode: Kamau Ware, "Battle in the Margins: Black Experiences in New York City During the American Revolution" (Black Gotham Experience)
Courtney Weikle‑Mills
Author of Sugarcoated Ethics, Children's Literature and Atlantic Enslavement
Johns Hopkins University Press
Episode: Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Bernadette Ludwig
Author of Unwelcome Shores, Black Refugees in America
Western Connecticut State University; New School (Zolberg Institute)
Episode: Bernadette Ludwig, "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Ashanté Reese
Author of Gather, Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
Norton (publisher)
Episode: Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Nancy Folbre
Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Episode: Nancy Folbre, "Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First" (U California Press, 2026)
Beronda L. Montgomery
Award-winning plant biologist and author of When Trees Testify
Howard University? (not explicitly stated in transcript)
Episode: Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" (Henry Holt & Co.)
Ted Andrews
Professor in the Department of History and Classics, Providence College
Providence College / Author of Newport Gardner's Anthem
Episode: Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Jarvis C. McInnis
Author of Afterlives of the Plantation, Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South
Columbia University (scholar)
Episode: Jarvis C. McInnis, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (Columbia UP, 2025)

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Dr. Zachary Williams
Host of The New Books Network

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 215 ratings
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    Really interesting episodes and I’m glad to have somewhere to go when I’m either looking for a new book or something new to me.

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    BreOutside
    United States3 months ago
  • 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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    @bodegaautumn
    United Statesa year 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!

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    Sol na Laje
    United Kingdom3 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 States3 years ago
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    Are there African Americans who write books on African American history? Really!?!? Do better or end this.

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    Clone B.
    United States3 years ago

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Strong guest diversity and archival context.
Scholarly depth with accessible storytelling.
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A valuable resource for discovering new Black studies authors.
Critical voices note perceived emphasis on white authors in some episodes.

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Deirdre Mayer Dougherty, "Race and Place: School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
Q: To get us started, Deirdre, can you tell us more about yourself?
The guest describes her background as an associate professor, her work studying space, race, and schooling, and early influences that led to the book, highlighting how lived experience and scholarly training converged to examine desegregation in Prince George's County.
Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Q: Why are the motifs of the grateful enslaved and benevolent master so powerful in sugarcoated texts, and how do they relate to abolition movements?
These motifs function as a PR strategy to normalize slavery by portraying enslaved people as grateful and masters as benevolent, which can dampen critical engagement with violence and exploitation and persist even in some abolition‑adjacent narratives, thereby shaping readers' moral responses.
Courtney Weikle‑Mills, "Sugarcoated Ethics: Children’s Literature and Atlantic Enslavement" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Q: Could you unpack the concept of white civility and how it functions in your analysis of 18th and 19th century children's literature?
White civility is a pattern where white people prioritize peaceful relations among whites and treat acknowledgement of racial harm as a threat to that peace, thereby narrowing the sphere of ethical concern and enabling a calm surface that obscures systemic injustice.
Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Q: What distinguishes mutual aid from charity, especially in times of crisis like the Texas storm you described?
Mutual aid is about horizontal relationships, shared responsibility, political education, and solidarity that persists beyond immediate needs, whereas charity often reinforces hierarchy and one-way aid.
Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Q: You mentioned your grandmother as a guiding influence. How did she shape your understanding of justice and community?
Her example of service, simple acts of feeding people, and gardening as a meditative practice showed me justice as everyday care and responsibility to one another, not just grand activism.

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This show centers scholarly conversations around recently published books and research in African American studies, frequently featuring historians, literary scholars, and interdisciplinary academics. Episodes cover topics like care economics, Black Atlantic history, Indigenous sovereignty, Black urban life, and transnational Black print culture, often with a focus on archival detail, method, and the broader implications for public education and policy. A standout pattern is in-depth author interviews that blend historical context with contemporary relevance, plus thoughtful discussions of race, gender, and empire. The format tends to attract listeners who are researchers, students, and professionals in academia or libraries, and it often h... more

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