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African American Studies
Performing Arts
April 19, 2021
Owed
Joshua Bennett
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Owed (Penguin, 2020) is the second collection of poems by Dr. Joshua Bennett, poet, professor, and artist. This volume is a wide-ranging, celebratory book focused on what Bennett calls "the Black quotidian," …
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Critical Theory
April 16, 2021
Redlining Culture
A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction
Richard Jean So
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020), Richard Jean So, an assistant professor of …
History
April 12, 2021
Monumental
Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana
Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon
Hosted by Michael Vann
Dr. Brian K. Mitchell describes Reconstruction as the most misunderstood period in American history. In the Jim Crow era, there was a concerted effort to reverse the achievements of African …
Politics & Society
April 9, 2021
Debating the Drug War
Race, Politics, and Media in the War on Drugs Debate
Michael Rosino
Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Since President Nixon coined the phrase, the "War on Drugs" has presented an important change in how people view and discuss criminal justice practices and drug laws. The term evokes …
American West
April 9, 2021
Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion
Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo
Elyssa Ford
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Imagine a rodeo rider atop a bucking bronco, hat in hand, straining to remain astride. Is the rider in your mind's eye white? Is the person male? Popular imaginings and high …
Literary Studies
April 8, 2021
Laughing to Keep from Dying
African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century
Danielle Fuentes Morgan
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
The election of Barack Obama propelled the idea of a post-racial United States, or that the country had moved beyond race as a defining feature of social difference and beyond …
Political Science
April 8, 2021
America's Peacemakers
The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights
Bertram Levine and Grande Lum
Hosted by Lilly Goren
The Community Relations Service (CRS) came into being alongside the Voting Rights Act—as part of the Act itself. And this organization was integrated into the Voting Rights Act in 196 …
Anthropology
April 6, 2021
Anthropology and Radical Humanism
Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race
Jack Glazier
Hosted by Alex Golub
Paul Radin was one of the founding generation of American cultural anthropologists: A student of Franz Boas, and famed ethnographer of the Winnebago. Yet little is known about Radin's life. A leftist who was …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
April 1, 2021
The Movement
The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Thomas C. Holt
Hosted by Marshall Poe
The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
April 1, 2021
A Black Women's History of the United States
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Kali Nicole Gross about her new book (co-authored with Daina Ramey Berry) A Black Women's History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2020).This episode covers a litany of instances …
Political Science
April 1, 2021
African American Political Thought
A Collected History
Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political theorists Melvin Rogers and Jack “Chip” Turner have produced a truly magisterial edited volume centering the work by African American thinkers over the past centuries. With thirty contributed chapters …
Christian Studies
March 30, 2021
Christian Citizens
Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South
Elizabeth L. Jemison
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Elizabeth L. Jemison, who teaches American religious history at Clemson University, South Carolina, has written an outstanding new book, Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South (University …
World Affairs
March 29, 2021
Trouble of the World
Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital
Zach Sell
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Mississippi River, the abolition of slavery in …
African American Studies
March 26, 2021
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
Free Soil in Antislavery Boston
Karen Woods Weierman
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte
In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the …
Performing Arts
March 26, 2021
Playing Changes
Jazz for the New Century
Nate Chinen
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Nate Chinen's Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (Vintage, 2019) is an essential guide to 21st century jazz. Named a best book of the year by NPR, GQ, Billboard …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
March 25, 2021
Memphis Mayhem
A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World
David A. Less
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to David A. Lees about his book Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World (ECW Press, 2020) David Less has studied Memphis music for …
African American Studies
March 23, 2021
Shelter in a Time of Storm
How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism
Jelani M. Favors
Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) by Dr. Jelani Favors fills the “missing pages” of history by …
History
March 22, 2021
As If She Were Free
A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Erica Ball and Tatiana Seijas
Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
Edited by Drs. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, As if She Were Free (Cambridge University Press, 2020) is a collective biography of African and African-descended women across …
African American Studies
March 16, 2021
Sentient Flesh
Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black
R. A. Judy
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview R.A. Judy, professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, about his book Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black, which …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
March 15, 2021
The Cause of Freedom
A Concise History of African Americans
Jonathan S. Holloway
Hosted by Marshall Poe
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in …
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