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About Deidre Tyler

Deidre Tyler, PhD - Sociologist, Instructional Technologist.

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Asian American Studies May 16, 2022

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham UP, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle …
Poetry May 13, 2022

Daughters of Harriet

Poems

Cynthia Parker-Ohene

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Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene's poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks: mislaid in potters' fields and catalogued with other misbegotten …
General History May 12, 2022

Pandemic Re-Awakenings

The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919

Guy Beiner and Professor of Modern History Guy Beiner

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Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919 (Oxford UP, 2021), edited by Guy Beiner, offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering …
Literature May 6, 2022

Mingo

W. Jeff Barnes

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Set against the backdrop of coal-rich, hard-scrabble West Virginia and "civilized," segregated Virginia, W. Jeff Barnes' Mingo (Little Star, 2021) reveals the deep divide between corporate might and those seeking …
Media May 6, 2022

History, Disrupted

How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past

Jason Steinhauer

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The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation …
Women's History May 2, 2022

Mutinous Women

How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Joan DeJean

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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 …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform April 25, 2022

Indefinite

Doing Time in Jail

Michael L. Walker

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Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out …
Gender Studies April 19, 2022

The Rise of Women and Wealth

Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future

Cindy Couyoumjian

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Cindy Couyoumjian--founder of Cinergy Financial, with over thirty-six years of experience--is on a mission to empower women to stop being spectators and enter the financial arena; to stand up and …
Sociology April 13, 2022

Majority Minority

Justin Gest

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How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may …
Children's Literature April 12, 2022

Melanie and the Box

James Michael Thibeault

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Today I talked to James Michael Thibeault, the author of the lovely children's book Melanie and the Box (2021). Melanie wants to be just like her mother: someone who wears a giant …
General History April 11, 2022

The Spirit of New York

Defining Events in the Empire State's History (2nd Edition)

Bruce W. Dearstyne

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In The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State's History (2nd Edition; SUNY Press, 2022), Bruce W. Dearstyne presents New York State history through an exploration of …
Literature March 28, 2022

The Last Professional

Ed Davis

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This is a story of America! Lynden Hoover, a young man on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. Help …
Literature March 28, 2022

The Last Professional

Ed Davis

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This is a story of America! Lynden Hoover, a young man on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. Help …
Fantasy March 24, 2022

Scorpica

The Five Queendoms, Book 1

G. R. Macallister

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Today I talked to G. R. Macallister about her book Scorpica (Gallery / Saga Press, 2022). A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single …
African American Studies March 21, 2022

The First Black Archaeologist

A Life of John Wesley Gilbert

John W. I. Lee

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The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Oxford UP, 2022) reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into …
Medicine March 18, 2022

Outbreak Culture

The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue

Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi

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As we saw with the Ebola outbreak--and the disastrous early handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic--a lack of preparedness, delays, and system-wide problems with the distribution of critical medical supplies …
African American Studies March 17, 2022

To Walk about in Freedom

The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

Carole Emberton

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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 …
Literature March 2, 2022

Where No One Should Live

Sandra Cavallo Miller

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Today I talked to Sandra Cavallo Miller about her novel Where No One Should Live (U Nevada Press, 2021).Dr. Maya Summer works at Arizona Public Health, overseeing and researching a myriad …
Sociology February 28, 2022

Reconsidering REDD+

Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy

Julia Dehm

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In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (Cambridge UP, 2021), Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation …
Children's Literature February 21, 2022

Little Miss Linda Speaks Out About Diversity

Linda J. M. Holloway

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We live in a society that is extremely diverse, and we must find ways to treat each other with love and respect despite our differences. Little Miss Linda is a …
Biography February 10, 2022

Madame Bessie Jones

Her Life and Times

J. M. West

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In J. M. West's Madame Bessie Jones: Her Life and Times (Local History Press, 2021), Jones emerges from the shadows of Carlisle (PA) history, first turning tricks in her mother …
World Affairs February 4, 2022

The Reagan Moment

America and the World in the 1980s

Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles

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In The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s (Cornell UP, 2021), the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had …
Sociology February 1, 2022

Evolving as a Digital Scholar

Teaching and Researching in a Digital World

Wim Van Van Petegem, J. P. Bosman, and Miné de de Klerk

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What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomorrow. It foregrounds three key domains …
Education January 31, 2022

The Empowered Professor

Breaking the Unspoken Codes of Inequity in Academia

Dana Mitra

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How can new faculty find success in academia and what can universities do to support them? In The Empowered Professor: Breaking the Unspoken Codes of Inequity in Academia (Teachers College …