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Back to SearchElizabeth Garner Masarik, "The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Episode 1504
With The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024), Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik s…
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Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
Episode 171
By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr. Timothy Nelson argues in his new book, the Black …
1 year, 11 months ago
Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 481
Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing…
1 year, 11 months ago
Debra Bruno, "A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 1501
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family (Cornell University Press, 2024) tells the l…
1 year, 11 months ago
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 37
They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including …
1 year, 11 months ago
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 136
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own compli…
1 year, 11 months ago
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institu…
1 year, 11 months ago
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
Episode 258
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orlea…
1 year, 11 months ago
Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 242
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college ed…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Episode 85
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison re…
1 year, 11 months ago