Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVictor Luckerson, "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 240
When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center …
2 years, 11 months ago
Jon Michaud, "Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Episode 121
The uniquely inspiring story of a beloved neighborhood bar that united the communities it served. Coogan’s Bar and Restaurant opened in New York City…
2 years, 11 months ago
Methadone and Covid-19
Episode 54
Helen Redmond is a Harlem-based documentary filmmaker, journalist, licensed clinical social worker, and professor at NYU. As senior editor and a mult…
2 years, 11 months ago
Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
Episode 52
This is the second Peoples & Things episode featuring a guest host. In this case, it is M. R. “Mols” Sauter, an assistant professor of information st…
2 years, 11 months ago
Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 238
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navig…
2 years, 11 months ago
Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 1336
Today, the word "neoliberal" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neol…
2 years, 11 months ago
Thomas A. Castillo, "Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Episode 55
In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. In Working in t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)
Episode 29
Today I talked to Ricardo Tranjan about his book The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023).
It’s well known and almost taken for granted that we live…
2 years, 11 months ago
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation …
3 years ago
James Zarsadiaz, "Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A." (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 64
In this episode, we discuss how myths of suburbia, the American West, and the American Dream informed regional planning, suburban design, and ideas a…
3 years ago