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Society & Culture
History
1101
B. R. Roberts and K. Foulcher, "Indonesian Note...
An interview with Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher
94 min
1102
David A. Varel, "The Scholar and the Struggle: ...
An interview with David A. Varel
51 min
1103
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Po...
An interview with Jodi Rios
50 min
1104
Norah L. A. Gharala, "Taxing Blackness: Free Af...
Interview with Norah L. A. Gharala
45 min
1105
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past: Po...
A discussion of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Silencing the Past."
90 min
1106
Marjoleine Kars, "Blood on the River: A Chronic...
An interview with Marjoleine Kars
42 min
1107
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
1108
Simon J. Gilhooley, "The Antebellum Origins of ...
An interview with Simon J. Gilhooley
62 min
1109
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
1110
Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP...
An interview with Ashon T. Crawley
61 min
1111
Kim T. Gallon, "Pleasure in the News: African A...
An interview with Kim T. Gallon
69 min
1112
J. A. Ball and T. Burroughs, "A Lie of Reinvent...
An interview with Jared Ball
93 min
1113
Michael E. Sawyer, "Black Minded: The Political...
Sawyer examines Malcolm X's philosophical system, restoring his thinking to the pantheon of Black Radical Thought....
94 min
1114
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught: The Wash...
Dunbar offers a powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked everything to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom...,
59 min
1115
Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Bro...
An interview with Martha S. Jones
60 min
1116
Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: Th...
Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...
44 min
1117
Tony Bolden, "Groove Theory: The Blues Foundati...
Bolden offers a history of funk artists such as George Clinton who developed a new aesthetic style through the Black Arts Era of the 1960s and 1970s....
58 min
1118
Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophy...
Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....
69 min
1119
Justin Gifford, "Revolution Or Death: The Life ...
Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Eldridge Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of White America...
72 min
1120
Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Intern...
Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...
95 min
1121
Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Sl...
Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...
48 min
1122
D. T. Lawrence and E. J. Lawless, "When They Bl...
64 min
1123
College Presidents and the Struggle for Black F...
Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1968, Eddie Cole shows how college presidents, during a time of violence and unrest, strategically, yet often silently, initiated and shaped racial policies and practices inside and outside of the educational sphere...
52 min
1124
Anjali Vats, "The Color of Creatorship: Intelle...
Vats offers an intricate and meticulously researched text on intellectual property history, race, and citizenship from the 1790s to the present...
49 min
1125
Clayborne Carson, "Malcolm X: The FBI File" (Sk...
The FBI has made possible a reassembling of the history of Malcolm X that goes beyond any previous research. From the opening of his file in March of 1953 to his assassination in 1965, the story of Malcolm X’s political life is a gripping one....
85 min