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About Deidre Tyler

Deidre Tyler, PhD - Sociologist, Instructional Technologist.

NBN Episodes hosted by Deidre:

American Studies May 28, 2023

The War is Here

Newark 1967

Chris Campion and Bud Lee

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
July 1967. After the arrest, beating, and imprisonment of cab driver John Smith by local police, the city of Newark--already a tinderbox, became a hotbed of protest and retaliation. Over …
Media May 28, 2023

Say the Right Thing

How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice

Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow

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In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like critical race theory, gender equity in the workplace …
Literary Studies May 25, 2023

Fighting Over There

U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature

Alaina Kaus

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U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable "there." In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform May 15, 2023

The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline

The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain

Michelle Smirnova

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In The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain (Duke UP, 2023), Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in …
South Asian Studies May 8, 2023

The Violent Domestic Law

Its Practice and Strategies of Survival

Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh, Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, and Ruchira Goswami

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In 2005, after considerable campaigning by women’s groups, the Indian government brought in an important new law, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA). A civil law, the …
African American Studies May 5, 2023

The Wounded World

W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

Chad Williams

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When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War …
American South April 29, 2023

The Southern Way of Life

Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South

Charles Reagan Wilson

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How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life--a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in …
African American Studies April 28, 2023

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

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In To Tell a Black Story of Miami (UP of Florida, 2022), Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image …
Gender Studies April 21, 2023

Panes of the Glass Ceiling

The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity

Kerri Lynn Stone

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More than fifty years of civil rights legislation and movements have not ended employment discrimination. Kerri Lynn Stone's Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure …
Public Policy April 16, 2023

Inequality Across State Lines

How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States

Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller

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In the United States, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence each year. Despite the passage of federal legislation on violence against women beginning in 1994, differences …
Chinese Studies April 2, 2023

Seeking Western Men

Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise

Monica Liu

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Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries …
Medicine March 25, 2023

Photos from the Front Lines

A Year on the Streets of Alameda County

Derek Hanley

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Photos from the Front Lines follows medics from Falck Alameda County ambulance during one of the most tumultuous years in recent collective memory - 2020. From a global pandemic to demonstrations …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform March 21, 2023

Injustice, Inc.

How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

Daniel L. Hatcher

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Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor (U California Press, 2023) exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America's history of racial and economic inequality to …
Literature March 18, 2023

Traces

Patricia L. Hudson

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An early American adage proclaimed, "The frontier was heaven for men and dogs―hell for women and mules." Since the 1700s, when his name first appeared in print, Daniel Boone has …
African American Studies March 11, 2023

"My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole"

Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures

Robin L. Owens

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US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixon's 1974 impeachment hearings. However, before she developed faith …
Sociology March 1, 2023

The Dating Divide

Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance

Celeste Vaughan Curington, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, and Ken-Hou Lin

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The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance (U California Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism," a distinct form of racism that …
African American Studies February 26, 2023

My Work Among the Freedmen

The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss

Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, editors

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Between 1863 and 1871, Harriet M. Buss of Sterling, Massachusetts, taught former slaves in three different regions of the South, in coastal South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina …
Biography February 24, 2023

Colin Powell

Imperfect Patriot

Jeffrey J. Matthews

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Until he passed away in 2021, Colin Powell was revered as one of America's most trusted and admired leaders. Jeffrey J. Matthews' Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot (U Notre Dame Press …
African American Studies February 24, 2023

Black Lives in Alaska

A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest

Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer

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The history of Black Alaskans runs deep and spans generations. Decades before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women participated in …
African American Studies February 12, 2023

Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation

Another Way of Knowing

Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago

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Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago's edited volume Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing (Leuven UP, 2022) questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body …
South Asian Studies February 11, 2023

South vs. North

India's Great Divide

Nilakantan RS

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Compare two children – one born in north India, the other in the south. The child from south India is far less likely to die in the first year of …
Literature February 2, 2023

White Flag

Judy L. Mandel

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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

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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 …