Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 393
How should we understand contemporary migration policy? In Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration (Rutgers UP, 2022), Nour Hala…
2 years, 8 months ago
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 25
In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)
Episode 299
In 2018, Emily Flitter received a tip that Morgan Stanley had fired a Black employee without cause. Flitter had been searching for a way to investiga…
2 years, 8 months ago
Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 392
How can we build a better social and political settlement? In Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality (Policy Pres…
2 years, 8 months ago
Keisha Ray, "Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People's Health" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 204
Why do American Black people generally have worse health than American White people? To answer this question, Keisha Ray's book Black Health: The Soc…
2 years, 8 months ago
Maxwell Kennel, "Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 390
Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement (Brill, 2023) provides a new paradigm for understanding the concept of violence th…
2 years, 8 months ago
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 391
What is the future of the global creative economy? In Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi (MIT Press, 2023), Robin St…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 387
Who is believed in our mediated world? In Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity Press, 2023), Sarah Banet-Weiser, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)
Episode 1332
In Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society (ILR Press, 2021), Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between…
2 years, 8 months ago
Ricardo Tranjan, "The Tenant Class" (Between the Lines, 2023)
Episode 29
Today I talked to Ricardo Tranjan about his book The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023).
It’s well known and almost taken for granted that we live…
2 years, 8 months ago