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Scott Seider and Daren Graves, “Schooling for Critical Consciousness” (Harvard Education, 2020)
Scott Seider and Daren Graves
Schooling for Critical Consciousness
Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice
Harvard Education Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in EducationNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 5, 2020 Pengfei Zhao

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Scott Seider from Boston College and Dr. Daren Graves from Simmons University on their new book, Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice (Harvard Education Press, 2020). Over the past thirty years, we have... Read More
Ian Burrows, “Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy” (Zero Books, 2020)
Ian Burrows
Shakespeare for Snowflakes
On Slapstick and Sympathy
Zero Books, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in EducationNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 2, 2020 Andy Boyd

In Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy (Zero Books, 2020), Ian Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy. Using source material as diverse as YouTube comments and the plays of Sarah Kane and... Read More
Thomas A. Discenna, “Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor” (Routledge, 2017)
Thomas A. Discenna
Discourses of Denial
The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor
Routledge, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EducationNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society May 27, 2020 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (they/she) interviews Thomas A. Discenna of Oakland University about the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor. Focusing on a variety of sites where academic labor is discursively constructed... Read More
E. Michele Ramsey, “Major Decisions: College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities” (U Penn Press, 2019)
E. Michele Ramsey
Major Decisions
College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in EducationNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 13, 2020 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews E. Michele Ramsey of PennState Berks on Major Decisions: College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), a robust defense of Communication and the Humanities as disciplines of study. Major Decisions is a... Read More
Melissa R. Klapper, “Ballet Class: An American History” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Melissa R. Klapper
Ballet Class
An American History
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in EducationNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & Society May 12, 2020 C. P. Lesley

For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States. Some of these students have gone on to professional careers as dancers, but many more take class for a few years—or many years—before moving on to other... Read More
A Conversation with Nicholas Sutton of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
Nicholas Sutton
A Conversation with Nicholas Sutton
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
New Books Network, 2020

New Books in EducationNew Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 6, 2020 Raj Balkaran

Today I talked to Dr. Nicholas Sutton speaks about his work at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. We discuss his teaching philosophy, his mandate of making the study of Hinduism accessible to public audiences, and the Centre’s exciting collection of online courses. We also talked about two books he’s... Read More
Leslie M. Harris, “Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies” (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Leslie M. Harris
Slavery and the University
Histories and Legacies
University of Georgia Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in EducationNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society April 28, 2020 Adam McNeil

Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic... Read More
Terry Iverson, “Finding America’s Greatest Champion: Building Prosperity Through Manufacturing, Mentoring and the Awesome Responsibility of Parenting” (Fig Factor, 2018)
Terry Iverson
Finding America's Greatest Champion
Building Prosperity Through Manufacturing, Mentoring and the Awesome Responsibility of Parenting
Fig Factor, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EducationNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 28, 2020 Trevor Mattea

In this episode, I speak with Terry Iverson about his book, Finding America’s Greatest Champion: Building Prosperity Through Manufacturing, Mentoring and the Awesome Responsibility of Parenting (Fig Factor Media, 2018). This book highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to... Read More

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