Episodios

  • Episode 86 – Mohonk Conference and Black Education with Lasana Kazembe

    Episode 86 – Mohonk Conference and Black Education with Lasana Kazembe
    Jul 8 2025
    Lasana Kazembe, discusses his article, “The Steep Edge of a Dark Abyss: Mohonk, White Social Engineers, and Black Education.” Professor Kazembe discusses the key objectives of the First Mohonk Conference on “the Negro Question” and how this built the education standards for Black Americans. Emerging from the Conference sessions and speakers were themes of racial […]
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  • Episode 85 – The Carceral Home with Kate Weisburd

    Episode 85 – The Carceral Home with Kate Weisburd
    Jun 24 2025
    Kate Weisburd discusses her article, The Carceral Home. As prison walls are replaced with parole and probation rules that govern every aspect of private life, invasive surveillance technologies are used to monitor intimate information. Where does that leave the private home’s primacy as first among equals? Data collection, audio recording, and GPS technologies are expanded […]
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  • Episode 84 – Kali Gross Vengeance Feminism

    Episode 84 – Kali Gross Vengeance Feminism
    Jun 10 2025
    Kali Gross discusses her book, Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times. Prof. Gross looks at the stories of Black women who hit back—not always figuratively, and not always legally either. Reckoning with women who lied, robbed, and cheated a racist, misogynistic world, these women’s stories illustrate how they grappled with […]
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  • Episode 83 – Dog Whistles and Coded Speech with Anne Quaranto

    Episode 83 – Dog Whistles and Coded Speech with Anne Quaranto
    May 27 2025
    Anne Quaranto discusses her article, “Dog Whistles, Covertly Coded Speech, and the Practices that Enable Them.” Dog whistles are words or phrases that seem ordinary but send hidden, often derogatory messages. These forms of coded speech are often used by pundits, politicians, and public figures. Why do they use them and what do they mean? […]
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  • Episode 82 – Hell of a Storm Coming of the Civil War with David S. Brown

    Episode 82 – Hell of a Storm Coming of the Civil War with David S. Brown
    May 13 2025
    David S. Brown discusses his new book, “Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War.” With chapters on Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Fitzhugh, alongside with a cast of presidents, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Professor Brown shows how political, cultural, and literary history foreshadow the […]
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  • Episode 81 – Civil War and Racial Medicine with Leslie Schwalm

    Episode 81 – Civil War and Racial Medicine with Leslie Schwalm
    Apr 29 2025
    Leslie Schwalm discusses her book, “Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America.” Drawing on archives of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, recollections of Civil War doctors and medical, and testimonies from Black Americans, Professor Schwalm exposes the racist ideas the lent authority and prestige to Northern doctor’s and other elites. Leslie Schwalm is a […]
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  • Episode 80 – Constitutional Sheriffs with Jessica Pishko

    Episode 80 – Constitutional Sheriffs with Jessica Pishko
    Apr 15 2025
    Jessica Pishko is a journalist and lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and Columbia University’s MFA program. Jessica Pishko, journalist and lawyer, discusses her book, “The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy,” in which she walks through the long history of the American Sheriff. Since the 1960s, […]
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  • Episode 79 – Legacy of David Walker’s “Appeal” with Marcy Dinius

    Episode 79 – Legacy of David Walker’s “Appeal” with Marcy Dinius
    Apr 1 2025
    Marcy Dinius discusses her book, The Textual Effects of David Walker’s “Appeal”: Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851. David Walker’s “Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830)” was one of the first antislavery texts published that openly called for slave self-defense and resistance. Professor Dinius explores how Walker used research and […]
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