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About Siobhan Barco
NBN Episodes hosted by Siobhan:
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A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion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 …
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