Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew 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
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 230
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and sel…
1 year, 11 months ago
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
Episode 77
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the …
1 year, 11 months ago
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Episode 241
Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson.
Black resistance to white supremac…
1 year, 11 months ago
Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)
Episode 1495
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024…
1 year, 11 months ago
Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
Episode 66
On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunshots ra…
1 year, 11 months ago
Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 115
In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hill Edwards exposes how the rise and tragic failure…
2 years ago
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 193
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the mass…
2 years ago
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 480
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation (U Minnesota Press, 2024) offers new and insightful readings of Africa…
2 years ago