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Back to SearchJames Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
Episode 248
James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” is a powerful short story that describes the life of Jesse, a 42-year-old white police officer whose experien…
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Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 486
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to so…
1 year, 10 months ago
Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 485
A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC Press, 2024) tells the little-known story …
1 year, 10 months ago
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
Episode 484
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson sta…
1 year, 10 months ago
In Conversation: Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
Episode 29
A conversation with Dr. Sylviane Diouf on enslaved Muslim in the Americas. Diouf is the author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 483
In How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow …
1 year, 10 months ago
Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 328
How can Black Atlantic literature challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship?
Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice (U Minn…
1 year, 10 months ago
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Episode 205
Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The contemporary formations of the suburban sitcom, the po…
1 year, 10 months ago
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 114
By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cult…
1 year, 10 months ago
Tom Jenks, "James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 20
In James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues (Oxford University Press, 2024), Tom Jenks follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the patte…
1 year, 10 months ago