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African American Studies
June 29, 2020
You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer
Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism
Tsedale Melaku
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession? Tsedale Melaku explores this question and more in her new book: You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black …
Anthropology
May 15, 2020
Rapid Ethnographic Assessments
A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research
Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Karen Kroeger
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How can researchers gather information quickly, for instance in the times of COVID-19? In their new book, Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research (Routledge …
Music
May 13, 2020
Ballad of the Bullet
Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
Forrest Stuart
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power? In his new book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy …
Popular Culture
March 9, 2020
Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming
Analysing Reddit’s r/gaming Community
Marcus Maloney, Steven Roberts, and Timothy Graham
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities? In their new book Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing …
African American Studies
February 24, 2020
The New Noir
Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
Orly Clergé
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape …
African American Studies
January 30, 2020
You Can’t Stop the Revolution
Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America
Andrea S. Boyles
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (University of California Press, 2019), Andrea …
East Asian Studies
December 23, 2019
Dying for Rights
Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record
Sandra Fahy
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for North …
American Studies
December 9, 2019
Separated
Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
William D. Lopez
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids? William D. Lopez answers this question and more in his new book Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an …
American Studies
October 29, 2019
Empathy Beyond US Borders
The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement
Gary J. Adler, Jr.
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Gary …
Anthropology
October 21, 2019
Gathering Social Network Data
jimi adams
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What is social network data and what are the issues associated with collecting it? In his new book Gathering Social Network Data (Sage, 2019), jimi adams focuses on the principles …
American Studies
June 28, 2019
Making Motherhood Work
How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Caitlyn Collins
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
Where in the world do working moms have it best? In her new book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), Caitlyn Collins explores …
Sociology
December 27, 2018
The Gay Marriage Generation
How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture
Peter Hart-Brinson
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How and why did public opinions about gay marriage shift? In his new book, The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture (New York University Press, 2018) …
Anthropology
October 12, 2018
Seduction
Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy
Rachel O'Neill
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How does the seduction, or “pick-up artist,” industry work? In her new book Seduction: Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018), Rachel O’Neill provides a sociological analysis of the seduction …
American Studies
September 24, 2018
Inequalities of Aging
Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care
Elana Buch
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How are the vulnerabilities of older adults in need of care and their care workers intertwined? In Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care (New York University …
Anthropology
September 17, 2018
Young Working-Class Men in Transition
Steven Roberts
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do young working-class men experience the transition to adulthood? In his new book Young Working-Class Men in Transition (Routledge, 2018), Steven Roberts talks directly to young men to gain …
African American Studies
September 13, 2018
Black Boys Apart
Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools
Freeden Blume Oeur
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do schools empower but also potentially emasculate young black men? In his new book, Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
August 13, 2018
Cannabis Discourse
Facts and Opinions in Context
Jacob Levine
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What is the landscape of our cannabis knowledge? In his new book Jacob Levine author of the Cannabis Discourse: Facts and Opinions in Context (Jacob Levine, 2018) gives readers an …
African American Studies
August 8, 2018
Building the Prison State
Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration
Heather Schoenfeld
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How did prisons become a tool of racial inequality? Using historical data, Heather Schoenfeld’s new book Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago …
American Studies
August 6, 2018
Retirements and its Discontents
Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can
Michelle Pannor Silver
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do different professionals experience retirement? Michelle Pannor Silver’s new book Retirements and its Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can (Columbia University Press, 2018), explores this …
Public Policy
July 26, 2018
Meltdown
Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How can we learn from large system failures? In their new book Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Penguin Press, 2018), Chris Clearfield and …
American Studies
July 24, 2018
Keeping it Halal
The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
John O’Brien
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
What do the social worlds of teenage Muslim American boys look like? What issues do they grapple with and how do they think about issues that arise in their everyday …
American Studies
July 17, 2018
Christians Under Covers
Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet
Kelsy Burke
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do we conceptualize religious conservatives and their relationship with sex? And how do Christians use digital media for sexual knowledge and pleasure? In her new book, Christians Under Covers …
American Studies
June 5, 2018
Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
Barry Eidlin
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do unions and ideas around labor compare between the U.S. and Canada? And how did they come to be as they are today? In his new book, Labor and …
American Studies
May 31, 2018
Stick Together and Come Back Home
Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
Patrick Lopez-Aguado
Hosted by Sarah Patterson
How do systems of incarceration influence racial sorting inside and outside of prisons? And how do the social structures within prisons spill out into neighborhoods? In his new book, Stick …
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