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episode 37: Dorinne Kondo, "Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity" (Duke UP, 2018)


Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the politics and potential of theatre production and reception to ask how theatre ‘makes, unmakes and remakes’ race...


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 June 24, 2019  48m
 
 

episode 5: Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuana" (Duke UP, 2019)


Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...


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 June 24, 2019  50m
 
 

episode 197: Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason" (Stanford UP, 2018)


Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...


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 June 24, 2019  57m
 
 

episode 149: Anthony J. Badger, "Albert Gore, Sr.: A Political Life" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)


In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...


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 June 24, 2019  1h1m
 
 

episode 72: Scott Harrower, "God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of This World" (Lexham Press, 2019)


Harrower takes on the tremendous topic: the problem of horrific evil that seems to omnipresent in today’s world...


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 June 24, 2019  51m
 
 

episode 275: Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)


In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free speech and academic freedom...


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 June 24, 2019  59m
 
 

episode 531: Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)


This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture...


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 June 24, 2019  46m
 
 

episode 66: Reema Zaman, "I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir" (Amberjack, 2019)


Zaman details what happens when women are silenced by the patriarchy—and what it means to find the power inherent in one’s own voice...


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 June 21, 2019  43m
 
 

Pauline W. Chen, "Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality" (Vintage, 2008)


Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.


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 June 21, 2019  42m
 
 

episode 358: David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisan Divide on Environmental Issues" (Cambridge UP, 2019)


Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...


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 June 21, 2019  34m