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African American Studies
Popular Culture
March 1, 2021
Damaged
Musicality and Race in Early American Punk
Evan Rapport
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed …
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Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 25, 2021
Overground Railroad
The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Candacy Taylor about her book Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Press, 2020) Taylor is an award-winning author …
African American Studies
February 23, 2021
Women's War
Fighting and Surviving the Civil War
Stephanie Mccurry
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte
In Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2019), the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic …
African American Studies
February 23, 2021
Liner Notes for the Revolution
The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks
Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University Press, 2021) by Dr. Daphne Brooks is a lyrical masterpiece that takes readers on an exhilarating …
Popular Culture
February 23, 2021
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!
Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community
Robert L. Stone
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended …
Latino Studies
February 18, 2021
Decolonizing Diasporas
Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature
Yomaira C Figueroa-Vásquez
Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020), uses peripheralized (5) novels, visual/sonic works, poetry, essays …
Gender Studies
February 16, 2021
Me, Not You
The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
Alison Phipps
Hosted by Jana Byars
We are joined today by Alison Phipps, Professor in Gender Studies and the University of Sussex to talk about her newest book, Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism (Manchester …
Gender Studies
February 15, 2021
Recasting the Vote
How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
Cathleen D. Cahill
Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Women of color shaped the U.S. suffrage movement, framing women’s right to vote as fundamental to parallel movements for racial justice and citizenship reforms. In a collective biography of six …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
February 15, 2021
How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy
A Discussion with Michael Hanchard
Michael G. Hanchard
Hosted by Marshall Poe
As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination …
Medicine
February 5, 2021
Abusive Policies
How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way
Mical Raz
Hosted by Claire Clark
In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio …
Performing Arts
February 5, 2021
Fictional Blues
Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
Kimberly Mack
Hosted by Andy Boyd
The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity, and the violent stereotypes evoked …
Performing Arts
February 5, 2021
Afro-Fabulations
The Queer Drama of Black Life
Tavia Nyong'o
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Tavia Nyong’o's Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018), examines a broad range of artists and disciplines, from Adrian Piper to Kara Walker to the meaning of …
Science, Technology, and Society
February 5, 2021
Jim Crow Sociology
The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology
Earl Wright, II
Hosted by Chad Valasek
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology (U Cincinnati Press, 2020) is an extraordinary new volume that examines the origin, development, and significance of Black Sociology through the …
Psychoanalysis
February 3, 2021
Trauma and Race
A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity
Sheldon George
Hosted by Tracy Morgan
In his book, Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (Baylor UP, 2016), Sheldon George treats an old idea--that African Americans must transform their relationship to …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
February 1, 2021
White Freedom
The Racial History of an Idea
Tyler Stovall
Hosted by Marshall Poe
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
February 1, 2021
The Idea of Freedom and Race
A Discussion with Tyler Stovall
Tyler Stovall
Hosted by Marshall Poe
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on …
African American Studies
February 1, 2021
Roundtable on W. E. B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935)
A Discussion with Hilary N. Green, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, and Robert Greene II
W. E. B. Du Bois
Hosted by Adam McNeil
I am delighted to have y’all listen to the conversation I had with three of my favorite historians in all the dad-gum world. January 2021 has been a wild one …
Education
January 27, 2021
Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Andratesha Fritzgerald
Hosted by Christina Bosch
In the wake of 2020’s movements for Black Lives and exposed racial disparities in working-class deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions are grappling on a massive level with their …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 26, 2021
Black Queer Freedom
Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
GerShun Avilez
Hosted by John Marszalek
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic …
Malcolm X and Black Nationalism
January 26, 2021
The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks
Rereading Readers
Cedric Burrows
Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In this series, we delve into the background of Malcolm X's action and thought in the context …
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