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Food January 17, 2022

Power Hungry

Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement

Suzanne Cope

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Today I talked to Suzanne Cope about her new book Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)In …

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Interviews with scholars of the American South about their new books.

LGBTQ+ Studies January 12, 2022

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

Andrew J. Kunka

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of QUEER VOICES OF THE SOUTH, I talk with ANDREW J. KUNKA, who is a professor of English and division chair at the University of South Carolina …
Music January 5, 2022

Chapel of Love

The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups

Rosa Hawkins and Steve Bergsman

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In 1963, sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Hawkins and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson traveled from the segregated South to New York City under the auspices of their manager, former …
Political Science December 20, 2021

Beyond Slavery's Shadow

Free People of Color in the South

Warren E. Milteer, Jr.

Hosted by Susan Liebell
We often focus on enslaved people of color but Dr. Warren E. Milteer Jr.’s Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 2021) directs our attention …
General History December 15, 2021

Bonds of Empire

The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783

Lee B. Wilson

Hosted by Derek Litvak
Lee B. Wilson is the author of Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660-1783, published by Cambridge University Press in …
African American Studies December 13, 2021

Black Food

Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora

Bryant Terry

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
James Beard and NAACP Image Award-winning chef and educator, Bryant Terry calls Black Food a “communal shrine to the shared culinary histories of the African diaspora.” Black Food: Stories, Art …
African American Studies December 13, 2021

We Are Bridges

A Memoir

Cassandra Lane

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century …
Performing Arts December 10, 2021

The Girl Singer

Poems

Marianne Worthington

Hosted by Andy Boyd
In The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the …
American South December 8, 2021

Southern Journey

The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020

Edward L. Ayers

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the …
Law January 5, 2022

North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885

Warren E. Milteer Jr.

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. about his book North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020). He is an assistant professor of history …
Historical Fiction January 5, 2022

Sunday's Orphan

Catherine Gentile

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Even for someone trained from birth to manage a farm, stepping into an inheritance at the age of twenty is not easy. Yet this is the situation facing Promise Mears …
Latino Studies January 4, 2022

Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

Sonia Hernández and John Morán González

Hosted by Tiffany Gonzalez
In the wake of protests and marches for racial and gender justice in the twenty-first century, scholars have located and argued that racial violence has been embedded in the very …
Sociology December 15, 2021

Race Brokers

Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America

Elizabeth Korver-Glenn

Hosted by Richard Ocejo
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn's book Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America (Oxford UP, 2021) examines how housing market professionals-including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers-construct 21st …
General History December 9, 2021

Traveling Black

A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

Hosted by Dexter Fergie
Mobility has been central to the American identity—think of the automobile, the perceived freedom that comes with it, the open road—but Black Americans have never possessed the same freedom to …
Sociology December 1, 2021

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson

Race, Class, and Food in the American South

Joseph C. Ewoodzie

Hosted by Michael Johnston
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the …
African American Studies November 26, 2021

How the Word Is Passed

A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relationship to enslavement in …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 24, 2021

Queer As All Get Out

10 People Who've Inspired Me

Shelby Criswell

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
On this episode of Queer Voices of the South, I talk with Shelby Criswell, whose book Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me (Street Noise Books, 2021) …
General History November 23, 2021

Confederates and Comancheros

Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely

Hosted by Mark Klobas
A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle …
Law November 23, 2021

Alabama Justice

The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation

Steven P. Brown

Hosted by Ian Drake
Steven P. Brown, professor of political science at Auburn University, has written a history of notable U.S. Supreme Cases and justices that hailed from Alabama. In Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces …
Biography November 17, 2021

The Generals' Civil War

What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today

Stephen Cushman

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the decades following the American Civil War, several of the generals who had laid down their swords picked up their pens and published accounts of their service in the …