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African American Studies
Anthropology July 28, 2021

Boasians at War

Anthropology, Race, and World War II

Anthony Q. Hazard

Hosted by Alex Golub
The realities of race that continue to plague the United States have direct ties to the anthropology. Anthropologists often imagine their discipline as inherently anti-racist and historically connected to …

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African Studies July 28, 2021

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Christopher J. Lee

Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Kwame Anthony Appiah is among the most respected philosophers and thinkers of his generation. In Kwame Anthony Appiah (Routledge, 2021), Christopher Lee introduces the reader not only to the contributions …
Language July 26, 2021

No Future in This Country

The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner

Andre E. Johnson

Hosted by Lee Pierce
No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (U Mississippi Press, 2020) is a history of the career of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915), specifically focusing …
Intellectual History July 26, 2021

Canaan, Dim and Far

Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945

Adam Lee Cilli

Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Adam Lee Cilli's book Canaan, Dim and Far: Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945 (U Georgia Press, 2021) is an assiduously researched book about the activism of …
Academic Life July 22, 2021

Reclaiming Lost Voices and Recovering History

A Discussion with Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
General History July 22, 2021

Slave Revolt on Screen

The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

Hosted by Michael Vann
Michel-Rolph Trouillot wrote that “the silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and …
African American Studies July 21, 2021

The Black Civil War Soldier

A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

Deborah Willis

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents the harsh realities of enslavement. Similarly, the photography culture grew during the Civil …
American West July 21, 2021

West of Slavery

The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

Kevin Waite

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The geography of American slavery was continental, argues Dr. Kevin Waite, an assistant professor at Durham University, in West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (UNC Press, 2021). Rather …
Anthropology July 21, 2021

Finding Afro-Mexico

Race and Nation after the Revolution

Theodore W. Cohen

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Theodore Cohen examines the ways in which different protagonists sought to incorporate Blackness into Mexican national identity …
African American Studies July 21, 2021

Critical Black Futures

Speculative Theories and Explorations

Philip Butler

Hosted by Nicole Powell
Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021),  edited by Dr. Philip Butler, imagines worlds, afrofutures, cities, bodies, art and eras that are simultaneously distant, parallel, present, counter …
Journalism July 16, 2021

First to Fall

Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery

Ken Ellingwood

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
In First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (Pegasus Books, 2021), Ken Ellingwood takes readers back to the first true test of the …
Latino Studies July 16, 2021

We Are Owed.

Ariana Brown

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Poet Ariana Brown searches for new origins in her debut book We Are Owed. (Grieveland Press, 2021). Brown has had over ten years of experience writing, performing, and teaching poetry that struggles …
Sports July 16, 2021

Boxed Out of the NBA

Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League

Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein

Hosted by Paul Knepper
The Eastern Professional Basketball League (1946-78) was fast and physical, often played in tiny, smoke-filled gyms across the northeast and featuring the best players who just couldn’t make the NBA—many …
Sociology July 12, 2021

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Sebastian N. Page

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Based on sweeping research in six languages, Sebastian N. Page's Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's greatest …
General History July 7, 2021

Schooling the System

A History of Black Women Teachers

Funké Aladejebi

Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In post-World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying …
Medicine July 7, 2021

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions

Martin Summers

Hosted by Claire Clark
From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded …
Intellectual History July 7, 2021

Seeing Like an Activist

Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement

Erin R. Pineda

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority's principles, and …
African American Studies July 6, 2021

America on Fire

The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since The 1960s

Elizabeth Hinton

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellions since the 1960s (Liveright, 2021) Dr. Elizabeth Hinton asserts the significance of Black rebellions in post-civil rights America …
Caribbean Studies July 5, 2021

The Digital Black Atlantic

Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These …
Latin American Studies July 2, 2021

No Laughing Matter

Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media

Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade

Hosted by Candela Marini
No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media (Vernon Press, 2020) examines the social phenomenon of construction and dissemination of colonial-like racist discourses fostered against upwardly-mobile black women …