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Back to SearchFoluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 272
In 1977, The Combahee River Collective, a group of Black American feminists issued a statement communicating the harrowing following:
“The psychologi…
1 year, 3 months ago
Shani Adia Evans, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 432
Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called “America’s Whitest city,” Black residents who grew up there made it their own. The neighborhoods of No…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 1593
More than a century and a half after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, historians are still searching for exactly when the U.S. Civil Wa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Episode 1594
The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise …
1 year, 3 months ago
Joseph O. Jewell, "White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 1749
In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the sa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ashley Howard, "Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 1748
This episode features Dr. Ashley Howard, assistant professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Iowa, discussing her book, …
1 year, 3 months ago
The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash
Episode 1747
Dr. Karyne Messina and Dr. Felicia Powell-Williams, the host and co-host of “Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Racism in America” sponsored by The Ameri…
1 year, 3 months ago
Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 1746
Traversing teeming metropolises and tiny towns, Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (Random House, 2025) explores these spaces, c…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sabrina L. Hom, "Critical Mixed Race Philosophy: Rethinking Kinship and Identity" (Lexington Books, 2025)
Episode 1745
What are dominant narratives of mixed race identity? What are those narratives doing, in everyday life and within philosophical discourse? How can at…
1 year, 3 months ago
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 610
In the United States, systemic racism is embedded in policies and practices, thereby structuring American society to perpetuate inequality and all of…
1 year, 3 months ago