Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMonica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 358
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrializ…
2 years, 10 months ago
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 429
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despit…
2 years, 10 months ago
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Episode 18
Chhaya Kolavalli's book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City (U Georgia Press, 2023) documents how…
2 years, 10 months ago
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
Episode 241
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the vi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 242
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy.
For more than three …
2 years, 10 months ago
Salim Yaqub, "Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 240
Salim Yaqub's Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945 (Cambridge UP, 2022) explores how Americans from all walks of life – pol…
2 years, 10 months ago
Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 206
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 (Norton, 2023) is a revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation de…
2 years, 11 months ago
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 146
Did you know Sidney Poitier was a western icon? In a genre best known for John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, African American actors and directors have p…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 267
In Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Ian Smith urges readers of Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and…
2 years, 11 months ago
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine et al., "When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory Tower" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Episode 70
How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism…
2 years, 11 months ago