Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAsad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 307
Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigra…
2 years, 6 months ago
Elly Fishman, "Refugee High: Coming of Age in America" (The New Press, 2021)
Episode 213
Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021. Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award. A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highes…
2 years, 6 months ago
Marisa Holmes, "Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 175
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: This is Just Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall…
2 years, 6 months ago
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin, "Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 161
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. In Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader …
2 years, 6 months ago
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 196
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare …
2 years, 6 months ago
Jamie Rife and Donald W. Burnes, "Journeys Out of Homelessness: The Voices of Lived Experience" (Lynne Rienner, 2020)
Episode 160
How do individuals move from being homeless to finding safe, stable, and secure places to live? Can we recreate the conditions that helped them most?…
2 years, 6 months ago
Erica O. Turner, "Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 212
For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Smita A. Rahman et al., "Globalizing Political Theory" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 668
Three political theorists, Smita A. Rahman (DePauw University), Katherine A. Gordy (San Francisco State University), and Shirin S. Deylami (Western W…
2 years, 6 months ago
Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 195
Disability, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2021) examines the issues at the intersection of disability, care and family law. Professors Beverley Clou…
2 years, 7 months ago
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
Episode 211
America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining enrollment and diminished trust in pu…
2 years, 7 months ago