Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 1735
Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair took on decisive new significance as the young nat…
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Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1734
The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History (Oxford University Press, 2025) explores the under-appreciated divis…
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Is Sinners a New Classic of Political Utopianism?
Episode 1733
It’s the UConn Popcast, and we analyze the movie Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan, just released on streaming. We address the political themes of …
1 year, 4 months ago
Philip Kadish, "The Great White Hoax: Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America"
Episode 1732
Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Dr. Philip Kadish argues, ar…
1 year, 4 months ago
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 1731
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists l…
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
Episode 1730
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction …
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Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
Episode 1729
At the height of the Civil War, on May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls—an enslaved harbor pilot in Charleston, South Carolina—carried out one of the most cou…
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Robell Awake, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2025)
Episode 1728
Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and…
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Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 1727
From Black clubwomen to members of preservation organizations, African American women have made commemoration a central part of Black life and cultur…
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Rob Franklin, "Great Black Hope" (Summit Books, 2025)
Episode 1726
Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope (Summit Books, 2025)
Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction, criticism, and poetry, and a cof…
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