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Back to SearchErin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 129
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are al…
6 years, 3 months ago
Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
Episode 703
Alan Taylor is the author of Thomas Jefferson’s Education published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. Thomas Jefferson’s Education tells the story o…
6 years, 3 months ago
AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry on the Becoming Historians
Episode 190
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in the…
6 years, 3 months ago
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools" (U California Press, 2019)
Episode 122
There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with cheap…
6 years, 3 months ago
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 154
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillip…
6 years, 4 months ago
Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 65
On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at…
6 years, 4 months ago
T. Mose "The Playdate" (NYU Press, 2016) and L. Crehan "Cleverlands" (Random House, 2017)
Episode 102
In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience.
Urban sociologist Tamara Mose is an As…
6 years, 4 months ago
Abraham Kuyper, "On Education" (Lexham Press, 2019)
Episode 86
Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition – and a newspaper editor, university founder and Prime Minis…
6 years, 5 months ago
John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Male College Athletes" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
Episode 150
College sport is a multi-billion dollar industry. The men and women who lead the teams in the most important conferences often make millions of dolla…
6 years, 5 months ago
H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, "The Power of Debt: Identity and Collective Action in the Age of Finance" (Institute on Inequality and Democracy, 2019)
Episode 54
As the upcoming 2020 U.S. election finally brings questions of economic justice center stage, this episode discusses the powerful short open-source b…
6 years, 5 months ago