Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....

Discenna paints a compelling picture of “the denial of academic labor” happening across public and private institutions...

Ramsey offers a robust defense of Communication and the Humanities as disciplines of study...

Sutton describes the work of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, as well as his own scholarship.

Iverson highlights the importance of manufacturing in our economy as well as the ways parents, mentors, and teachers can work together to foster the character traits and critical thinking skills required in the twentieth-century workforce...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Dorrell covers approaches, strategies, and topics important for the study of Islam today...

Qualls examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War...

Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...

The "Reacting" technique asks students to play the roles of historical actors and to re-enact particular events and situations. The instructors using the method have had great success...

García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...

"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?

Taylor tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be...

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 transitions from graduate school into the professorate...

Gaddis aims to spark a progressive movement that will transform food in American schools, and with it the lives of thousands of low-paid cafeteria workers and the millions of children they feed...

How does the world of book reviews work?

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed

In this episode we consider vital role of play, and what it does to expand a child’s creativity and resilience...

Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important theologians in the Dutch Reformed tradition...

Given that the majority of the athletes in the major sports (read that to be football and men’s basketball) are African American, what type of recompense are they getting for their toil and sweat on the gridiron and the hardcourt?