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Back to SearchThe Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
Episode 237
Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host disc…
2 years, 2 months ago
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
Episode 28
Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The path to this nomination and the generation electio…
2 years, 2 months ago
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 7
Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the …
2 years, 2 months ago
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
Episode 472
This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop—and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Episode 471
In Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (U Georgia Press, 2021), Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender …
2 years, 2 months ago
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 470
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?
With Spir…
2 years, 2 months ago
Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Episode 469
Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 (Liverpool UP, 2023) examines three major currents …
2 years, 3 months ago
Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 15
Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to…
2 years, 3 months ago
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 374
How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.
Society …
2 years, 3 months ago
Prithi Kanakamedala, "Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 468
Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice.
Before it was a borough, Brookl…
2 years, 3 months ago