Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHAP 66 - Lifting the Veil - Introducing W.E.B. Du Bois
Episode 103
W.E.B. Du Bois emerges as a historian, sociologist, and innovative philosophical thinker in the 1890s, and introduces his famous idea of "double cons…
5 years ago
HAP 65 - Separate Fingers, One Hand - Booker T. Washington
Episode 102
Was Booker T. Washington’s “accomodationist” approach to race relations a failure to stand up to injustice or a cunning strategy for incremental chan…
5 years ago
HAP 64 - God is a Negro - Henry McNeal Turner
Episode 101
A late 19th-century churchman tries to explain how slavery fit into God’s plan, and decide whether the future for African-Americans lies in Africa or…
5 years, 1 month ago
HAP 63 - Brittney Cooper on Black Women Activists
Episode 100
Brittney Cooper on activists connected to the National Association of Colored Women, including Fannie Barrier Williams, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida …
5 years, 1 month ago
HAP 62 - American Barbarism - Ida B. Wells
Episode 99
Ida B. Wells, her tireless crusade against lynching, and her analysis of the underlying purpose of racial violence.
5 years, 2 months ago
HAP 61 - When and Where I Enter - Anna Julia Cooper
Episode 98
Anna Julia Cooper’s "A Voice from the South", an unprecedented contribution to black feminist theory.
5 years, 2 months ago
HAP 60 - Though Late, It Is Liberty- Abolitionism in Brazil
Episode 96
Abolitionists Luiz Gama and Joaquim Nabuco, and the great novelist Machado de Assis, react to the injustices of slaveholding in Brazil.
5 years, 3 months ago
HAP 59 - Frowning at Froudacious Fabrications - J.J. Thomas and F.A. Durham
Episode 97
John Jacob Thomas argues for self-government in the English colonies of the Caribbean but his fellow Trinidadian Frederick Alexander Durham recommend…
5 years, 3 months ago
HAP 58 - A Common Circle - Anténor Firmin
Episode 95
Haitian anthropologist Anténor Firmin debunks racist pseudo-science and argues that inequalities among humans are caused by social, not biological, f…
5 years, 4 months ago
HAP 57 - Race First, Then Party - T. Thomas Fortune
Episode 94
T. Thomas Fortune uses newspaper editorials to put forth a theory of civil rights and set out a plan of political action for protecting them.
5 years, 5 months ago