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African American Studies May 10, 2022

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

An Artist's Reckoning with the South

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
In Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South (UNC Press, 2022), Glenda Gilmore meticulously documents and interprets the artistic life of Romare Bearden …

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The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones May 3, 2022

The Future of Statues

A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann

Alex Von Tunzelmann

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
What are the rights and wrongs of toppling statues? Sometimes everyone agrees it’s a good idea. After the second world war, for example, the defeat of fascism meant that all …
Women's History May 2, 2022

Mutinous Women

How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Joan DeJean

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for …
Medicine April 28, 2022

Medicalizing Blackness

Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Rana A. Hogarth

Hosted by Laura Stark
Medicine and slavery went hand-in-hand. But what was the nature of this vile partnership? In Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (UNC Press, 2017), Rana Hogarth …
World Christianity April 28, 2022

The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South

Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism

João B. Chaves

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
João B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin …
Celebration Studies April 26, 2022

Mardi Gras Beads

Doug MacCash

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
The first in a new LSU Press series exploring facets of Louisiana’s iconic culture, Mardi Gras Beads (2022) delves into the history of this celebrated New Orleans artifact, explaining how Mardi …
Geography April 22, 2022

How the Color Line Bends

The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America

Nina M. Yancy

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the connection between prejudice and place in modern America. Existing scholarship suggests that …
American South April 19, 2022

Far-Right Vanguard

The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism

John S. Huntington

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Donald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative, anti-immigrant platform, but, despite the electoral surprise, Trump's far-right views were not an aberration, nor even …
Christian Studies April 15, 2022

Praying with Our Feet

Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets

Lindsey Krinks

Hosted by Meg Gambino
Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets (Brazos Press, 2021), written by Lindsey Krinks was published by Baker Publishing Group in 2021. In this personal, and …
Biography April 7, 2022

Walk with Me

A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

Kate Clifford Larson

Hosted by Mark Klobas
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at …
Catholic Studies April 1, 2022

Desegregating Dixie

The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992

Mark Newman

Hosted by Allison Isidore
In Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 (UP of Mississippi, 2018), Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the …
Political Science March 30, 2022

Smashing Statues

The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

Erin L. Thompson

Hosted by Susan Liebell
In the United States, the national debate over public monuments often frames the removal of statutes as a revision of history. But Dr. Thompson suggests that we need to interrogate …
General History March 29, 2022

Chained to History

Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865

Steven J. Brady

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 (Cornell University Press, 2022), Dr. Steven J. Brady places slavery at the centre of the story of America's place …
American South March 17, 2022

The Ballad of Robert Charles

Searching for the New Orleans Riot Of 1900

K. Stephen Prince

Hosted by Brandon Jett
For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with police on a New …
African American Studies March 17, 2022

To Walk about in Freedom

The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

Carole Emberton

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never …
American Studies March 11, 2022

The Saddest Words

William Faulkner's Civil War

Michael Gorra

Hosted by William Domnarski
William Faulkner, one of America's most iconic writers, is an author who defies easy interpretation. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such classic novels as Absolom, Absolom! and The …
LGBTQ+ Studies March 8, 2022

Playhouses

Sexuality and Fundamentalism

Sherry Scott

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of Queer Voices of the South I talk to Dr. Sherry Scott about her new book Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism, released in February 2022 by Black Rose …
American West February 17, 2022

The People's Revolt

Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism

Gregg Cantrell

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Pundits, politicians, and scholars often use words like "liberalism" and "populism" uncritically. Dr. Gregg Cantrell, professor of history at Texas Christian University, argues that not only do these terms have …
American South February 15, 2022

Elegy for Mary Turner

An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

Hosted by Brandon Jett
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through …
Latino Studies February 14, 2022

Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas

Max Krochmal and J. Todd Moye

Hosted by Tiffany Gonzalez
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye’s Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas (University of Texas Press, 2021) is a critical contribution that uncovers histories of …