Prof. Beltrain explains the how Herrenvolk Democracy is useful in understanding White Supremacy and how it transformed into White Democracy.

Professor Marquis Bey discusses their book, BLACK TRANS FEMINISM in which they argue that how we define, label, and identify ourselves can be a way to embrace freedom and the liberated possible.

Professor Aaron Bekemeyer discusses the complicated history of police unionization.

Professor Samantha Pinto discusses her book, Infamous Bodies Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights.

Professor Ruth Colker discusses her 2022 Utah Law Review article, “The White Supremacist Constitution.”

Professor Jason Morgan Ward discusses his book Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965.

Professor Olivarius uses yellow fever to frame how wealth, class, and race developed in the economic powerhouse antebellum city of New Orleans.

Prof. Horne explains his thesis that religion, which supported so much colonial expansion, gave way to race, specifically whiteness, as a way of organizing conquest.

Prof. Thompson explains the role of Confederate monuments, what they symbolize, and to whom their message is aimed.