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About Deidre Tyler

Deidre Tyler, PhD - Sociologist, Instructional Technologist.

NBN Episodes hosted by Deidre:

Literature February 2, 2023

White Flag

Judy L. Mandel

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Cheryl said many times that "I'm done with that life, I'll never go back to it." But she did. When her Aunt Judy finds her in jail after two years …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform January 18, 2023

The Healing Stage

Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Lisa Biggs

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses …
Biography December 18, 2022

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey

A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership

Sonya Y. Ramsey

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Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership (UP of Florida, 2022) examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey …
Gender Studies November 24, 2022

Gendering the GOP

Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress

Catherine N. Wineinger

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In Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress (Oxford UP, 2022), Catherine N. Wineinger argues that to truly understand the evolution of women's congressional representation, it …
Literature November 24, 2022

Bottled Lightning

L. M. Weeks

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Today I talked to L. M. Weeks about his new book Bottled Lightning (South Fork Publishers, 2022) Top global technology lawyer Tornait "Torn" Sagara knows he shouldn't get involved with his …
Literature November 16, 2022

Dissection

A Medical Thriller

Cristina LePort

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DC heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury--a dissection. And all …
Sociology November 9, 2022

Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States

Contemporary Norms and Barriers

Richard Petts

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Richard Petts' Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers (Routledge, 2022) focuses on issues of family, work, and gender, with a focus on gender inequality …
Women's History November 9, 2022

Brave Hearted

The Women of the American West

Katie Hickman

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Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them …
American Studies November 8, 2022

Democracy's Data

The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

Dan Bouk

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The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories--you just …
African American Studies October 26, 2022

Nannie Helen Burroughs

A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959

Kelisha B. Graves, ed.

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Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work has long been excluded from the literary canon. In her time, Burroughs was a celebrated …
Literature October 20, 2022

War and Me

A Memoir

Faleeha Hassan

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An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq's seemingly endless series of wars. Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing …
American Studies October 18, 2022

Trash Talk

Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century

Patricia A. Turner

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Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore have occurred in every national election cycle …
Literature October 17, 2022

The Devil's Dictionary

Steven Kotler

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Hard to say exactly when the human species fractured. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango in Cyberspace, is the first of …
Historical Fiction October 14, 2022

Coming Apart

A Novel of the Great Depression

Karen Heenan

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Today I talked to Karen Heenan about Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression (2022). Ava has always been poor, so she doesn't think the Great Depression will change anything …
Politics & Polemics October 10, 2022

The Second Civil War

A Citizen's Guide to Healing Our Fractured Nation

Peter Montoya

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America is on the brink of disaster. You've seen it -- on television, social media, at work, and even in your personal life. We're in the midst of a cold …
Asian American Studies October 5, 2022

Fierce and Fearless

Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX. "Every girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every …
General History September 23, 2022

Long Days, Short Years

A Cultural History of Modern Parenting

Andrew Bomback

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When did "parenting" become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibility of failure? Sitcom families of the past--the Cleavers, the Bradys, the …
Education September 19, 2022

Try This

Research Methods for Writers

Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Derek N. Mueller, and Kate Pantelides

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Try This: Research Methods for Writers (CSU Open Press, 2022) explores interdisciplinary research methods employed in research in writing studies but rarely drawn upon in undergraduate courses. This shifts writing …
Food September 14, 2022

Coffee the Magical Elixir

Facts That Will Astound and Perk You Up

Sanjiv Chopra

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Today I talked to Sanjiv Chopra about his book Coffee the Magical Elixir: Facts That Will Astound and Perk You Up (Bookbaby, 2021) 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed globally everyday …
American South September 13, 2022

Remembering Enslavement

Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum

Amy Potter et al.

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Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum (U Georgia Press, 2022) explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of …
African American Studies August 8, 2022

Riding Jane Crow

African American Women on the American Railroad

Miriam Thaggert

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Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black …
American Studies July 27, 2022

Instruments of Empire

Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815

Michael K. Beauchamp

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M. K. Beauchamp's Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815 (LSU Press, 2021) examines the challenges that resulted from U.S. territorial expansion through the …
Media July 25, 2022

The Podcast Handbook

Create It, Market It, Make It Great

Jacqueline N. Parke

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Jacqueline N. Parke's book The Podcast Handbook: Create It, Market It, Make It Great (McFarland, 2022) is a comprehensive overview of the burgeoning podcast industry. It covers the history of podcasting …
African American Studies July 22, 2022

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

Traci Parker

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In Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (UNC Press, 2019), Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate …