Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWomanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Episode 260
Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at much higher rates than their white counterparts. The vast majority of these…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sam Klug, "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1696
In The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Dr. Sam Klug reveals the central…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
Episode 286
Professional baseball has featured a bevy of superstars over the past century and a half, but only a few of them have impacted their sport and cities…
1 year, 7 months ago
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 353
Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a differen…
1 year, 7 months ago
Victoria Christopher Murray, "Harlem Rhapsody" (Berkley, 2025)
Episode 197
Most people in North America have probably at least heard the name W. E. B. Dubois. In the early twentieth century, DuBois—the first African-American…
1 year, 7 months ago
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
Episode 497
Over the past decade Micaiah Carter has established himself as one of the most exciting and admired young photographers working in the field of portr…
1 year, 7 months ago
Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 496
A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.
Since James Baldwi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 25
Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. Prison Capit…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 351
Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's l…
1 year, 7 months ago
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
Episode 115
Today I’m speaking with Chryl Laird, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. We are discussing her…
1 year, 7 months ago