Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLaura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 100
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displace…
1 year, 11 months ago
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
Episode 185
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. Th…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 85
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approac…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 525
Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should…
1 year, 11 months ago
Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Episode 83
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging (Beacon Press, 2023) is an unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings…
1 year, 11 months ago
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 468
Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, p…
1 year, 11 months ago
Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
Episode 130
Do we understand racism as the primary driving engine of American inequality? Or do we focus instead on the indirect ways that frequently hard-to-dis…
1 year, 11 months ago
Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 315
Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Episode 36
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMillan…
1 year, 11 months ago
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 200
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary quee…
1 year, 11 months ago