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About Siobhan Barco

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American Studies October 16, 2020

Bush v. Gore

Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy

Charles L. Zelden

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Charles L. Zelden about the new expanded edition of his book, Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy (University Press of …
Chinese Studies August 24, 2020

China's War on Smuggling

Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast

Philip Thai

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Philip Thai about his book, China's War on Smuggling: Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast (Columbia University Press, 2018). Thai …
African American Studies June 24, 2020

We Are Not Slaves

State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America

Robert T. Chase

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode, Siobhan talks with Robert T. Chase about his book, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2020). In …
American Studies April 14, 2020

Unwanted

Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965

Maddalena Marinari

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor …
African American Studies March 12, 2020

Voices of the Enslaved

Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

Sophie White

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims …
American Studies January 17, 2020

Gates to Asia

A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion

Jane H. Hong

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than …
African American Studies November 12, 2019

Integration Now

Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education

William P. Hustwit

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of Talking Legal History, Siobhan talks with William P. Hustwit about his book Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education (UNC Press …
American Studies September 26, 2019

Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools

Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?

Candy Gunther Brown

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of New Books in Law Siobhan talks with Candy Gunther Brown about her book Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion …
African American Studies September 5, 2019

The Trouble with Minna

A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North

Hendrik Hartog

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of the American Society for Legal History’s podcast Talking Legal History Siobhan talks with Hendrik Hartog about his book The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery …
African American Studies August 19, 2019

Supreme Injustice

Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court

Paul Finkelman

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this episode of the American Society for Legal History’s podcast Talking Legal History Siobhan talks with Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College, about his book Supreme Injustice: Slavery in …
African Studies April 3, 2018

A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950

Fahad Bishara

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
Today I talked to Fahad Bishara about his book A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Dr. Bishara is …
African American Studies October 17, 2017

Locking Up Our Own

Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

Hosted by Siobhan Barco
In this podcast I talk with James Forman Jr. about his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). Mass incarceration and …