Book Friday!
January 2024
Black Nihilism and Anti-Black Racism by Devon R. Johnson (University of Tampa). Featuring commentary by Thomas Meagher (Sam Houston State University) and Greg Graham (University of Oklahoma); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: January 12, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
May 2024
Creolizing Hannah Arendt edited by Marilyn Nissim-Sabat (Lewis University, Emeritus) and Neil Roberts (Williams College). Featuring commentary by Anwar Uhuru (Wayne State University) and Lena Zuckerwise (Simmons University); with remarks by the book’s editors, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat and Neil Roberts.
Date: May 31, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
August 2024
Black Women and da ’Rona: Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery (Wake Forest University) and Shamara Wyllie Alhassan (University of California - Los Angeles). Featuring commentary by Janaka Lewis (UNC Charlotte) and Hadiya Sewer (University of the Virgin Islands); with remarks by the book’s editors, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Shamara Wyllie Alhassan.
Date: August 2, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
Book Friday! Coordinator
T.D. Harper-Shipman is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. Prior to Davidson, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her first book, Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa was published in 2019 with Routledge Press. She has published in Third World Quarterly, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Philosophy and Global Affairs, and International Studies Review. She has also published public-facing work in Pambazuka, The Global African Worker, Miami Institute of Social Sciences and Africa is a Country.
2023 Book Friday!
January 2023
Rien qu’une vie by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (Université Paris, Diderot-Paris 7). Featuring commentary by Laënnec Hurbon (CNRS); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: January 27, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
March 2023
White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide by Dylan Rodriguez (University of California, Riverside). Featuring commentary by AK Wright (Northeastern University) and Rahsaan Mahadeo (Providence College); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: March 31, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
August 2023
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg edited by Jane Anna Gordon (University of Connecticut) and Drucilla Cornell (In Memoriam). Featuring commentary by LaRose T. Parris (Lehman College), Nigel C. Gibson (Journal of Asian and African Studies), and Paget Henry (Brown University); with remarks by the book’s editor, Jane Anna Gordon.
Date: August 4, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
September 2023
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn (University of California, Berkeley). Featuring commentary by Percy Hintzen (Emeritus Professor, UC Berkeley) and Nigel Westmaas (Hamilton College); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: September 29, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
November 2023
Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity by Nathalie Nya (Case Western Reserve University). Featuring commentary by Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University) and T. Storm Heter (East Stroudsburg University); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: November 17, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
2022 Book Friday!
January 2022
Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth edited by Nigel C. Gibson (Emerson College). Featuring commentary by editor, publisher, and Rosemere Ferreira da Silva (Universidade do Estado da Bahia-UNEB).
Date: January 28, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
February 2022
White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order by Maribel Morey (Miami Institute for the Social Sciences). Featuring commentary by Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts Boston) and Ziyana Michè Lategan (Binghamton University); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: February 25, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
March 2022
Le nouvel Édouard Glissant : de l’opacité poétique à la limpide politique by Moustapha Ly (University of Denver). Featuring commentary by Cilas Kemedjio (University of Rochester) and Vieux A. Touré (Dakar American University of Science and Technology); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: March 25, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
April 2022
Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement authored by Daive A. Dunkley (University of Missouri). Featuring commentary by Shamara Alhassan (Arizona State University) and Kenneth Bilby (Smithsonian Institution); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: April 29, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
June 2022
African Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century: Acts of Transition edited by Jean-Godefroy Bidima (Tulane University) and Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University). Featuring commentary by Tanella Boni (University of Houphouët-Boigny) and Nick Nesbitt (Princeton University); with remarks by the book’s editors.
Date: June 24, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
September 2022
Bangrã yidgr ne tõnd buudã goamã yõod yaa boē? by Karen-saamb-kasenga Mahamadé Savadogo (Université de Ouagadougou). Featuring commentary by Ouedraogo Cheick Félix Bobodo (Université Ki-Zerbo) and Rodrigue Wendekondo Sawadogo (Université Norbert Zongo); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: September 30, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
December 2022
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce (University of Maryland, College Park). Featuring commentary by Dana F. Miranda (UMass Boston), Corey Reed (Butler University), and Jasmine K. Syedullah (Vassar College); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: December 16, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
2021 Book Friday!
March 2021
Afrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices, edited and introduced by Devyn Spence Benson. Featuring commentary by Karina Alma (translator, University of California, Los Angeles), Tanya Saunders (University of Florida), and Agustín Lao-Montes (University of Massachussets, Amherst); with remarks by the book’s editor.
Date: March 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
April 2021
Creolizing the Nation by Kris F. Sealey. Featuring commentary by Corey McCall (Cornell Prison Education Project), Ashleigh Morales (University of Memphis), and Renee T. White (Provost, Wheaton College); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: April 30, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
May 2021
Teorizando desde los pequeños lugares, coordinadores del libro, Roberto Almanza Hernández, Programa de Antropologia de la Universidad del Magdalena and Victor Hugo Pacheco Chávez, Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos-UNAM. Comentaristas: Dr. José G. Gandarilla (CEIICH-UNAM), Dra. María Antonia Antonacci (Pontifica Universidad Católica de San Pablo), Mtra. Rebeca Gaytán (Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos-UNAM). Moderadora: Rosario Torres-Guevara (BMCC, CUNY).
Date: May 28, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
June 2021
NÓS - Uma Antologia de Literatura Indígena, authored and edited by Edson Krenak, Rosi Waikhon, Cristino Wapichana, and Mauricio Negro. Hosted by Rosemere Ferreira da Silva (Universidade do Estado da Bahia/UNEB) and featuring commentary by Luiza Helena Oliveira da Silva (Universidade Federal do Tocantins), and translation by Pauline Batista (University of Connecticut).
Date: June 25, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
July 2021
A Philosophy of Antifascism by Devin Zane Shaw (Douglass College). Featuring commentary by Storm Heter (East Stroudsburg University), LaRose T. Parris (Lehman College, CUNY), and Thomas Meagher (Southwestern University); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: July 30, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
August 2021
The Common Wind: Afro-American Organization in the Revolution Against Slavery, by Julius Scott (University of Michigan). Featuring commentary by Toussaint Losier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Derefe Chevannes (University of Memphis), and Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: August 27, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
September 2021
Filosofía del cimarronaje by Pedro Lebrón Ortiz. Featuring commentary by Mayra Santos Febres (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo (Dartmouth College), and Marta Moreno Vega (Corredor Afro/Creative Justice Initiative); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: September 24, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
October 2021
The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature, authored by Anne Margaret Castro. Featuring commentary by Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers University), Bernabe Mendoza (Rutgers University),and Anwar Uhuru (Monmouth University); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: October 29, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
November 2021
En finer avec la politique de la différence. Leçons des mouvements sociaux et de covid-19 by Emmanuel Banywesize Mukambilwa (Docteur en philosophie, Université de Lubumbashi, RDC). Lecteurs: Déogracias Ilunga Yolola Talwa Université de Lubumbashi, RDC), et Louis Mpala Mbabula (Université de Lubumbashi, RDC).
Date: November 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)
December 2021 - Rescheduled
Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement authored by Daive A. Dunkley (University of Missouri). Featuring commentary by Shamara Alhassan (Arizona State University) and Kenneth Bilby (Smithsonian Institution); with remarks by the book’s author.
Date: December 31, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM (EST)