Vanessa Holden, interviewed for Time, discusses the role women played in the Southampton Rebelion (also known as the Nat Turner Rebellion) and their absence from the recent film, Birth of a Nation: "Slavery wasn’t evil at the hands of one evil master; it wasn’t only evil in moments of extreme violence and torture or extreme … Continue reading Holden Discusses the Role Women Played in the Nat Turner Rebellion | TIME
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Owens Interviews Fuentes on Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive | @AAIHS
Emily Owens and Marisa J. Fuentes in conversation at the African American Intellectual History Society blog: "In this interview, guest blogger Emily A. Owens sits down with Marisa Fuentes to discuss her new book, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. The book, which uses archival fragments to bring into focus the lives of … Continue reading Owens Interviews Fuentes on Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive | @AAIHS
Ross Interview on The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case | WWNO
Michael Ross was interviewed by Laine Kaplan-Levenson of TriPod: NOLA at 300 on his book The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era (Oxford, 2014): "It's true. The NOPD first hired black officers in the 1860s. New York City didn't have an African American in their ranks until 1911. … Continue reading Ross Interview on The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case | WWNO
PODCAST: Diouf and Higgins on the African Diaspora | Schomburg Live
Sylviane Diouf and Chester Higgins on Schomburg Live: Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, and renowned photographer Chester Higgins discuss the richness of the African world, the power of resistance, and the importance of history.
INTERVIEW: Wilder on his book “Ebony And Ivy: Race, Slavery, And The Troubled History Of America’s Universities” | The Diane Rehm Show (2014)
Revisit this 2014 interview with Craig Wilder on slavery and the university.
Jackson and Ball Discuss Roots from the 1970s to Now | Interview with the Journal of the Civil War Era
"This week on Muster, Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson and Dr. Erica L. Ball, authors of the upcoming book, Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017) talk about history, slavery, and black genealogy in anticipation of The History Channel’s May 31st premiere of a four-part remake of Alex Haley’s 1977 classic series, Roots. After the first episode of Roots, stay tuned for The Roots of Our History, a documentary about the series.
Interview: The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others | The UCSB Current
H/T - The Repeating Islands - Andrea Estrada interviews Esther Lezra on her new book The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others (Routledge, 2014): “It was important to show that the representational patterns that we use today are inheritors of an early representational rhetoric that was intrinsically tied up with material violence and injustice endured by … Continue reading Interview: The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others | The UCSB Current
INTERVIEW: David Scott x Orlando Patterson on Life, the Academy, and Slavery
In a long interview, Scott and Orlando Patterson discuss the sociologist and novelist's childhood, education, public service, and books....
INTERVIEW: Rice x Caryl Phillips on African Atlantic Memory
Alan Rice. “A Home for Ourselves in the World: Caryl Phillips on Slave Forts and Manillas as African Atlantic Sites of Memory.” Atlantic Studies 9, no. 3 (2012): 363–372. Abstract "This interview with the black Atlantic writer Caryl Phillips focuses on his non-fiction works and interrogates his ideas on the African diaspora and memorialisation, paying … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Rice x Caryl Phillips on African Atlantic Memory
Danticat Interview in Mother Jones
ED: It's been great to see, in the very first days of the disaster all these writers inside Haiti telling their stories, what happened, and what they would like to see happen next. Because everyone could get on the Internet, anyone could write their own narrative. There's a woman I know who lost her son, … Continue reading Danticat Interview in Mother Jones
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