​Brooke N. Newman, Ph.D.
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Publications

Academic and Popular Writing
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Books
  • A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica ( Yale University Press, 2018)      
​​       *Finalist for the 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
      *Winner of the Gold Medal for World History in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards 
      *Named an "Essential Academic Title" by Choice Magazine and a Choice Editors' pick for January 2019. ​
  • Co-editor with Gregory D. Smithers, Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
                                                              
Recent Popular Essays
  • “The White Nostalgia Fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ Backlash,” The Washington Post. July 8, 2019. *Reissued by The History News Network, The Salt Lake Tribune, & Tulsa World
  • “Uncovering Royal Perspectives on Slavery, Empire, and the Rights of Colonial Subjects," Georgian Papers Programme Website. January 21, 2019. *Reissued by  Uncommon Sense—the Blog.
  • "The Long History Behind the Racist Attacks on Serena Williams." The Washington Post. September 11, 2018.

Journal Articles
  • "Contesting 'Black' Liberty and Subjecthood in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1730s-1780s,"Slavery & Abolition​, Vol. 32, No. 2 (June 2011): 169-183. 
  • "Trinidad--Beneath the Surface: A Conversation with Elizabeth Nunez," Sargasso, 25th Anniversary Issue (May 2011): 235-246. 
  • "Gender, Sexuality, and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World," Gender & History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (November 2010): 585-602. 

​Book Chapters and Essays
  • “Interracial Marriage in the Atlantic World,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History (Oxford University Press; fall 2017).
  • "Identity Articulated: British Settlers, Black Caribs, and the Politics of Indigeneity on St. Vincent," in Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, ed. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), 109-149.
  • “Historical Perspective: Slavery Over the Centuries,” in Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Mary C. Burke (New York: Routledge, 2013), 24-47.


Other Writing

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GPP Blog Post 1/19
WaPo Op-ed 2/17
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Wapo op-ed 2/17
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Scalawag Article 3/17
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