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NBN Episodes hosted by Deidre:

Sociology September 13, 2021

Social Research Matters

A Life in Family Sociology

Julia Brannen

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Drawing from forty years of experience, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research in family studies is conducted and 'matters' at particular times. Social Research Matters: A Life in …
Sociology August 13, 2021

Rewriting Our Stories

Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being

Derek Gladwin

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-Being (Atrium, 2020) harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of fear and powerlessness into affirmative life narratives. Rather than seeing fear …
Sociology July 27, 2021

Against White Feminism

Notes on Disruption

Rafia Zakaria

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Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues in Against White Feminism …
Sociology July 12, 2021

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Sebastian N. Page

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Based on sweeping research in six languages, Sebastian N. Page's Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2021) offers the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's greatest …
General History June 28, 2021

East Texas Troubles

The Allred Rangers' Cleanup of San Augustine

Jody Edward Ginn

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When the gun smoke cleared, four men were found dead at the hardware store in a rural East Texas town. But this December 1934 shootout was no anomaly. San Augustine …
Sociology June 21, 2021

Time and Migration

How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life

Ken Chih-Yan Sun

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Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life (Cornell UP, 2021) interrogates how long-term immigrants …
Sociology June 9, 2021

The Puzzle of Prison Order

Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

David Skarbek

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In …
Sociology June 9, 2021

Tainted Tap

Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery

Katrinell M. Davis

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After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state …
African American Studies May 14, 2021

Impossible Stories

On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation

John Murillo III

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In Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation (Ohio State UP, 2021), John Murillo offers bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works within …
Sociology April 21, 2021

What We Mean by the American Dream

Stories We Tell about Meritocracy

Doron Taussig

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Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up …