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Back to SearchWilliam Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Episode 6
In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, Tarin Ahmed, the host, is joined by guest, William Jennings, a senior lecturer in French at the Universi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Seulghee Lee, "Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life" (Ohio State UP, 2025)
Episode 504
Join me for a conversation with Dr. Seulghee Lee (Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English, University of South Carolina) about hi…
1 year, 5 months ago
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Episode 282
From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025) is powerful memoir of redemption from the son…
1 year, 6 months ago
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 503
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in…
1 year, 6 months ago
Vanessa Priya Daniel, "Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 1713
In the U.S., many of the most significant social justice victories of our time have been spearheaded by women of color leaders. From the streets, to …
1 year, 6 months ago
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Episode 264
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuverin…
1 year, 6 months ago
Frederick Knight, "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 501
Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her ren…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
Episode 232
On February 29, 1940, African American actor Hattie McDaniel became the first person of color, and the first Black woman, to win an Academy Award. Th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 43
The history of queer politics in the United States since 1968 is commonly narrated as either a progressive campaign for state recognition or as a sub…
1 year, 6 months ago
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
Episode 500
What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police.
It's evident that policing is a problem. But w…
1 year, 6 months ago