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Society & Culture
History
726
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in...
An interview with Kathryn Gin Lum
43 min
727
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to Briti...
An interview with Adam Elliott-Cooper
54 min
728
On Trafficking Hadassah and Book of Esther
A Discussion with Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
59 min
729
NBN Classic: Anne Balay, "Semi Queer: Inside th...
Among many topics, Balay details how racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are a part, and not a part, of truck drivers’ interactions with customers, shippers, and receivers...
53 min
730
NBN Classic: Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The...
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
731
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize...
An interview with Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean
41 min
732
NBN Classic: Garrett Felber, "Those Who Know Do...
Felber examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalist to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination...
54 min
733
NBN Classic: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came ...
Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad...
35 min
734
NBN Classic: Marcia Chatelain, "Franchise: The ...
Chatelain examines the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968...
67 min
735
NBN Classic: Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife ...
Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism...
53 min
736
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
737
Charles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The L...
An interview with Charles L. Chavis Jr.
36 min
738
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literar...
An interview with Abby L. Goode
36 min
739
Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Raci...
An interview with Raúl Pérez
90 min
740
Kaysha Corinealdi, "Panama in Black: Afro-Carib...
An interview with Kaysha Corinealdi
62 min
741
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women T...
An interview with Aria S. Halliday
31 min
742
Derek H. Alderman et al., "Remembering Enslavem...
An interview with Derek Alderman, Amy Potter, and Stephen Hanna
50 min
743
Jodi Skipper, "Behind the Big House: Reconcilin...
An interview with Jodi Skipper
48 min
744
Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Lat...
An interview with Lorgia García Peña
50 min
745
Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity ...
An interview with Decoteau Irby
91 min
746
Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronag...
An interview with Marcus Nevius
138 min
747
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women T...
An interview with Aria S. Halliday
39 min
748
Kate Phillips, "Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaic...
An interview with Kate Phillips
36 min
749
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service D...
An interview with John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins
122 min
750
E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work...
An interview with E. James West
54 min