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Vershawn Ashanti Young
PODCASTS
ADAM HENIG
Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on FEBRUARY 5, 2014
http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2014/02/05/adam-henig-alex-haleys-roots-an-authors-odyssey-2014/
MATTHEW W. HUGHEY
White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on AUGUST 9, 2013
H. PAUL THOMPSON JR.
A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865-1887
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JULY 8, 2013
CARMEN KYNARD
Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies
SUNY PRESS, 2013
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JULY 18, 2013
ELAINE RICHARDSON
PHD to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life
NEW CITY COMMUNITY PRESS/PARLOR PRESS, 2013
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JULY 11, 2013
KEITH CLARK
The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JUNE 23, 2013
ANDREÁ WILLIAMS
Dividing Lines: Social Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 2013
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on MAY 8, 2013
RICHARD W. LEEMAN AND BERNARD DUFFY, EDS.
The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JANUARY 30, 2013
MARCIA ALESAN DAWKINS
Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JANUARY 11, 2013
MINKAH MAKALANI
In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on AUGUST 15, 2012
CHARLOTTE PIERCE-BAKER
This Fragile Life: A Mother’s Story of a Bipolar Son
LAWRENCE HILL BOOKS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JULY 30, 2012
KORITHA MITCHELL
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JUNE 29, 2012
ELIZABETH WEST
African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature, and Being
LEXINGTON BOOKS, 2011
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on APRIL 9, 2012
MAKALANI BANDELE
Hellfightin’
WILLOW BOOKS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on MARCH 19, 2012
http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2012/03/19/makalani-bandele-hellfightin-willow-books-2012/
KEVIN QUASHIE
The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on FEBRUARY 17, 2014
VORRIS NUNLEY
Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on FEBRUARY 16, 2012
CURTIS CRISLER
Pulling Scabs
AQUARIUS PRESS, 2009
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on DECEMBER 20, 2012
http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2012/12/20/curtis-crisler-pulling-scabs-aquarius-press-2009/
SIKIVU HUTCHINSON
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
INFIDEL BOOKS, 2011
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on DECEMBER 13, 2012
CINDY HOOPER
Conflict: African American Women and the New Dilemma of Race and Gender Politics
PRAEGER, 2012
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JANUARY 29, 2014
JAFARI ALLEN
¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JANUARY 24, 2012
JAMES UNNEVER AND SHAUN L. GABBIDON
A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime
ROUTLEDGE, 2011
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
HOUSTON BAKER
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on AUGUST 4, 2011
MIRIAM THAGGERT
Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS, 2010
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on AUGUST 31, 2011
DANIEL BLACK
Perfect Peace
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on AUGUST 24, 2011
http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2011/08/24/daniel-black-perfect-peace-st-martins-press-2010/
NIKKY FINNEY
Head Off & Split: Poems
TRIQUARTERLY/NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JULY 6, 2011
FRANK DOBSON, JR.
Rendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks and Whites, Love and Death
PLAIN VIEW PRESS, 2010
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JULY 21, 2011
DEBORAH WHALEY
Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities
SUNY PRESS, 2010
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JULY 15, 2011
KWASI KONADU
The Akan Diaspora in the Americas
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JUNE 9, 2011
HARVEY YOUNG
Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 2010
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on JUNE 20, 2011
JERALD WALKER
Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
BANTAM, 2010
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on NOVEMBER 17, 2011
DANIEL SHARFSTEIN
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
PENGUIN, 2011
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on NOVEMBER 1, 2011
PIERRE ORELUS
The Agony of Masculinity: Race, Gender, and Education in the Age of the ‘New’ Racism and Patriarchy
PETER LANG, 2010
by VERSHAWN YOUNG on OCTOBER 17, 2011