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Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New Sou...
Jones examines the evolution of race relations in the face of rapid demographic change as Mexican immigrants move into the traditionally biracial American South...
53 min
4952
William F. Trimble, "John S. McCain and the Tri...
The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of age during the Second World War...
73 min
4953
Vicki Howard, "From Main Street to Mall: The R...
41 min
4954
Anne Twitty, "Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Le...
Twitty looks at numerous freedom suits filed in the St. Louis circuit court in order to examine the legal history of slavery and freedom...
57 min
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Rachel B. Herrmann, "No Useless Mouth: Waging W...
When the British explored the Atlantic coast of America in the 1580s, their relations with indigenous peoples were structured by food...
40 min
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Thomas A. Foster, "Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Vio...
"Rethinking Rufus" is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men...
39 min
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James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
41 min
4958
E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, "Freud/Tiffany...
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?
58 min
4959
Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind, "Big is Beaut...
Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught?
43 min
4960
Kimberly Welch, "Black Litigants in the Antebel...
Welch explores the history of free and enslaved black Americans use of local courts in the Cotton South...
45 min
4961
Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the A...
Borchard calls for a better understanding of journalism's past, at a time of acute concern about its future...
51 min
4962
Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros, "Copper S...
Elaine Hampton tell the story of how a Mexican American community in El Paso have fought back against environmental injustice...
36 min
4963
Brian Haara, "Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law ...
Bourbon whiskey has been around since nearly the beginning of the United States...
60 min
4964
Maria Cotera, "Chicana Movidas: New Narratives ...
The editors have formulated a landmark anthology illustrating Chicana feminism and activism that spread in the Southwest, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest during the Chicana/o movement era...
57 min
4965
Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black an...
Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...
60 min
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jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" ...
jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...
44 min
4967
Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation:...
Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..
74 min
4968
Shirletta J. Kinchen, "Black Power in the Bluff...
During the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the South’s strongest NAACP branches...
60 min
4969
Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Foo...
Keyser explores the ways that modern fiction writers responded to the theories and anxieties about race in the early twentieth century through related anxieties about modern industrial food...
71 min
4970
Hannah Weiss Muller, "Subjects and Sovereign: B...
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...
38 min
4971
Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics ...
Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...
30 min
4972
David Varel, "The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrect...
Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south, challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago...
63 min
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Anthony Ryan Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret D...
Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...
46 min
4974
Marc Stein, "Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court De...
Stein shows how a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality...
34 min
4975
Chinyere K. Osuji, "Boundaries of Love: Interra...
The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...
52 min