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Back to SearchCalvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 21
In Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition (University of California Press, 2023), Calvin John Smiley explores the lives of people who we…
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Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 20
Sabina Andron's book Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City (Routledge, 2024) focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship a…
2 years, 1 month ago
Lisa L. Phillips et al., "Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
Episode 174
What is the nature of grassroots activism? How and why do individuals get involved or attempt to make change for themselves, others, or their own com…
2 years, 1 month ago
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 173
American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that U…
2 years, 1 month ago
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 60
George Fisher, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, just released his new book Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial M…
2 years, 1 month ago
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 59
Most accounts of post-1950s political history tell the story of of the war on drugs as part of a racial system of social control of urban minority po…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Culture Trap, with Sociologist Derron Wallace (EF, JP)
Episode 122
In this episode, Elizabeth and John talk with Derron Wallace, sociologist of education and Brandeis colleague, about his new book The Culture Trap, w…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Future of School Reform: A Discussion with Alison Colwell
Episode 95
Educationalists sometimes argue that the best way to improve a failing school is to appoint a strict principal or head, and this is sometimes the cas…
2 years, 1 month ago
Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 702
The role of mother is often celebrated in the United States as the most important job in the world but Dr. Caitlin Killian argues that American mothe…
2 years, 1 month ago
Rachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 206
The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigeno…
2 years, 1 month ago