Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCamille Owens, "Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 478
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (NYU Press, 2024) argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 104
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of…
1 year, 5 months ago
Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
Episode 134
Today I talked to Julia Caterina Hartley about Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France (Bloomsbury. …
1 year, 5 months ago
Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 57
There was nothing inevitable or natural about the rise of US finance capitalism in the early twentieth century.
In Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Inés Valdez, "Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 106
In scholarly and popular discourse, popular sovereignty and self-determination are typically conceived of as the antitheses of imperialism, while his…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jeff Schuhrke, "Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Cold War, and the Untold History of the AFL-CIA" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 111
How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad.
Blue Collar Empire: Labor Internationalism, the Global Col…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 484
In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, tho…
1 year, 5 months ago
Caterina Fugazzola, "Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China" (Temple UP, 2023)
Episode 68
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, "Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 483
Who runs Britain? In Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Harvard UP, 2024), Aaron Reeves, and Sam Friedman, both Professors o…
1 year, 6 months ago
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 477
In The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U Chicago Press, 2024), Andrew W. Kahrl uncovers the history of ine…
1 year, 6 months ago