Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGarrett Felber, "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" (AK Press, 2025)
Episode 1863
The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.
A Co…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
Episode 1862
Throughout US history, only three Black women—Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris—have given successfully recognized bids for th…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 422
Coined in the middle of the nineteenth century, the term "voodoo" has been deployed largely by people in the U.S. to refer to spiritual practices--re…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao
Episode 1860
TCP’s inaugural episode features Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao, two scholars whose academic work and activism have helped to set the parameters of the…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
Episode 666
In the United States, the stoicism and importance of the “working class” is part of the national myth. The term is often used to conjure the contribu…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Episode 1857
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flou…
9 months ago
Justin L. Mann, "Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 1858
Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculation (Duke UP, 2026) takes Black speculative fiction as a central archive for underst…
9 months ago
Mark Anthony Neal, "New Black Man" (Routledge, 2015)
Episode 1856
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Mark Anthony Neal’s pivotal text New Black Man (Routledge, 2015), Mickell Carter interviews Neal about the …
9 months ago
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 1855
Alaina Morgan's Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora (UNC Press, 2025) introduces the conce…
9 months ago
Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 1854
Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis (Cornell UP, 2025) by Dr. Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement res…
9 months ago