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1876
T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
58 min
1877
Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
1878
Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...
59 min
1879
Remi Joseph-Salisbury, "Black Mixed-Race Men: T...
Joseph-Salisbury explores the double consciousness of black mixed-race men in America and the UK...
44 min
1880
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
1881
Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulne...
Purser takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm...
88 min
1882
Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives?
69 min
1883
Alexandra Minna Stern, "White Ethnostate: How t...
Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...
64 min
1884
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, "The Ethics of Staying: Soc...
Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)...
51 min
1885
Adem Yavuz Elveren, "The Economics of Military ...
Elveren offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy...
37 min
1886
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
1887
Patricia A. Banks, "Diversity and Philanthropy ...
Banks explores the rise of the African American museum and its patrons and philanthropists...
34 min
1888
Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Poli...
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...
48 min
1889
Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Pol...
Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...
43 min
1890
Alpa Shah, et al., "Ground Down by Growth: Trib...
Shah and her co-authors focuses on those left behind by, and indeed ground down by, India’s much touted growth...
62 min
1891
Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work...
How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries?
40 min
1892
Aimee Bahng, "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Spe...
Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...
61 min
1893
Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Police Terror an...
Alves makes a powerful contribution to urban anthropology, describing the spatial contours of “Brazilian Apartheid” in Sao Paulo...
62 min
1894
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, "Makers of Democracy...
This tightly argued social and intellectual history of the middle classes in Colombia makes a compelling case for the importance of both transnationalism and gender in the mid-century idea of middle-class-ness...
36 min
1895
Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vis...
Pace examines Hall’s life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher...
53 min
1896
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, “Automating Finance: I...
Pardo-Guerra explores the history of the finance industry to understand the role of markets and technologies in contemporary capitalism...
41 min
1897
Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Re...
Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...
57 min
1898
Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives ...
Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...
91 min
1899
Eric Blanc, "Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ St...
Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.
20 min
1900
M. L. Mitma and J. P. Heilman, "Now Peru is Min...
This book tells the remarkable story of a campesino and indigenous political activist whose career spanned much of Peru’s twentieth century and whose achievements at the local and national level transformed Peruvian peasant politics...
48 min