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African American Studies
June 9, 2020
Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Africana and AfroAm Studies
A Discussion with Adam McNeil
Neil Roberts
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Adam McNeil
Where do good ideas come from? How does an idea go from creation to a research project? How is historical research done? And how does research find its way into a finished book? And what impact can a book have? Today, I discuss these topics and more with my colleague and friend Dr. Neil Roberts. Dr. Roberts teaches Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College …
African American Studies
June 8, 2020
Being Property Once Myself
Blackness and the End of Man
Joshua Bennett
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Adam McNeil
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press, 2020) …
African American Studies
May 28, 2020
Presumed Criminal
Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
Carl Suddler
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Adam McNeil
A stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When …
Caribbean Studies
May 27, 2020
The Yellow Demon of Fever
Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
Manuel Barcia
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Alejandra Bronfman
As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
May 21, 2020
The Futurist Files
Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930
Iva Glisic
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Aaron Weinacht
Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could …
African American Studies
May 19, 2020
John Hervey Wheeler
Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights
Brandon K. Winford
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Adam McNeil
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for …
Anthropology
May 13, 2020
Uncommon Anthropologist
Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture
Nancy Mattina
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Alex Golub
Protégé of Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas, founder and head of Barnard College's anthropology department, and a trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one …
African American Studies
April 28, 2020
Slavery and the University
Histories and Legacies
Leslie M. Harris
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Adam McNeil
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of …
African American Studies
April 7, 2020
Tacky's Revolt
The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Vincent Brown
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Adam McNeil
In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while …
Buddhist Studies
April 2, 2020
From the Fifty Jātaka
Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka
Dr. Chris Baker and Prof. Pasuk Phongpaichit
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Alex Carroll
The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in …
General History
March 26, 2020
On Trial for Reason
Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair
Maurice Finocchiaro
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Aaron Weinacht
In his new book On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair (Oxford University Press, 2019), Maurice Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two …
African American Studies
March 9, 2020
AfroAm Studies Roundtable
Robert Greene and Tyler Parry on Becoming Historians
Robert Greene II and Tyler D. Parry
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Adam McNeil
Today, instead of discussing a new book, I am convening a “New Books in African American Studies Roundtable” to talk with two historians early in their careers about their recent …
Anthropology
March 2, 2020
Talking Like Children
Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands
Elise Berman
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Alex Golub
Since World War II, the fate of the Marshal Islands has been tied to the United States. The Marshalls were a site of military testing, host a US military base …
African American Studies
February 21, 2020
Hiding in Plain Sight
Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
Erika Denise Edwards
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Adam McNeil
Argentina promotes itself as a country of European immigrants. This makes it an exception to other Latin American countries, which embrace a more mixed—African, Indian, European—heritage. Hiding in Plain Sight …
African American Studies
February 17, 2020
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
adrienne maree brown
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Adrian King
In the introduction to Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (AK Press, 2019), adrienne maree brown defines pleasure activism as “the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy …
Caribbean Studies
February 4, 2020
Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou
Roberto Strongman
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Alejandra Bronfman
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Duke University Press, 2019), Roberto Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious …
Buddhist Studies
January 16, 2020
Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns
Biographies as History
Dr. Alice Collett
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Alex Carroll
Dr. Alice Collett’s monograph Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History (Oxford University Press, 2016) delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of …
Caribbean Studies
January 9, 2020
Aerial Imagination in Cuba
Stories from Above the Rooftops
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
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Alejandra Bronfman
In her new book Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops (Routledge, 2019), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier looks up at the sky, and from there she begins her stories about …
Caribbean Studies
December 12, 2019
In the Forests of Freedom
The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
Lennox Honychurch
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Alejandra Bronfman
Maroons—enslaved Africans who escaped and formed autonomous communities—dominated Dominica’s hilly interior for centuries. Dominica’s unusual history of a relatively brief period of colonization and few sugar plantations shaped a history …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
December 11, 2019
From Chernobyl with Love
Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union
Katya Cengel
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Aaron Weinacht
Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) is an engaging memoir of a Western newspaper reporter’s youthful experiences …
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