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November 4, 2024
I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me
Today I talked to Matthew Ferrence about his book I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay (West Virginia UP, 2024). When …
November 3, 2024
Carceral Recovery
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…
October 27, 2024
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation (U Minnesota Press, 2024) offers new and insightful readings of African…
September 22, 2024
How America Works and Why It Doesn't
Twenty-first-century America isn’t working the way it’s supposed to. William Cooper's How America Works and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the Us Po…
September 15, 2024
Indefinite
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have b…
September 7, 2024
Likeable Badass
Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks,…
July 28, 2024
Brooklynites
Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice. Before it was a borough, Bro…
June 30, 2024
Tabernacles in the Wilderness
Examining how a civilian organization used the Civil War to advance their religious mission. Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commissi…
June 19, 2024
When Emancipation Came
Linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period, two countries shared human rights issues on two distinct continents. In When …
June 11, 2024
Motherlove
Motherlove (Concord Free Press, 2024) is the powerful short-story collection from Jean Trounstine, an acclaimed writer and social-justice activist wit…
June 9, 2024
Children of a Troubled Time
Kids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, whi…
May 27, 2024
Dirt Don't Burn
The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected ev…
May 26, 2024
Mansfield and Dirksen
The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it's easy to believe it was always this way. But in the turbul…
May 21, 2024
The Poverty Paradox
The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century--why should the wealthiest country in the world also ha…
May 19, 2024
Pregnant at Work
The low-wage service industry is one of the fastest-growing employment sectors in the US economy. Its workers disproportionately tend to be low-income…
May 13, 2024
The Black Ceiling
America's elite law firms, investment banks, and management consulting firms are known for grueling hours, low odds of promotion, and personnel practi…
May 12, 2024
The Chosen We
The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education (SUNY Press, 2023) elevates the oral histories of 105 accomplished, college-educated Blac…
May 3, 2024
Solving the Climate Crisis
Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth (Seven Stories Press, 2023) is a hopeful and critical resource that make…
April 21, 2024
Renegade M.D.
Dr. Susan Partovi first experienced poverty medicine volunteering at a dump site in Tijuana during high school. There, she recognized the need for all…
April 14, 2024
Make Your Own History
One hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History: T…
April 9, 2024
Being Black in the Ivory
When Sharde M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people aff…
April 6, 2024
The Little Guide to Getting Your Book Published
The Little Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) takes prospective authors from idea to draft manuscript to published book…
April 3, 2024
Our Trespasses
Greg Jarrell's book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods (Fortress Press, 2024) uncovers how race, geography, polic…
April 3, 2024
Fair Shake
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competit…