https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBTVFtugauM How the news media create crime, race, nation, and the USA-Mexico divide examines border newspaper...
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Covering the Border War
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Slavery and Surrogacy with Alys Weinbaum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvg6kZ12vpk Alys Weinbaum, professor of English at the University of Washington, discusses her book, The Afterlife...
Banned Books and Gay Erasure with Caitlin O’Loughlin
https://youtu.be/8XMi2-bn8b4 For Banned Books week, join Caitlin O’Loughlin as she discusses her article, “It’s Just Filth: Banned Books and the...
Police Reform and Carceral Logic with Christy Lopez
Christy Lopez draws on her work as a Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice to talk about Pattern or Practice Investigations with in police departments
Childhood and Carceral Society with Erica R. Meiners
Professor Erica Meiners discusses her book, For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State, in which the definition of childhood become an ideological state used to push back against resistance and reform.
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Eugenics After Slavery
Eugenicists’ study of mixed race people with Black and white ancestry did not emerge in a vacuum. Slavery not only gave rise to myths about mixed...
Slavery and Disability with Jenifer Barclay
Professor Jenifer Barclay discusses how disability and ablism helped shape American ideas of slavery, black bodies, and the medical practice.
Immigration as Racial Exclusion with Reece Jones
Tracing the connections between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the “Keep America American” nativism of the 1920s, and the “Build the Wall” chants of the 2016, Prof. Jones makes the case that American Immigration policy has always been and remains racially motivated.
All Lives Matter Racism with Professor Sang Hea Kil
Professor Sang Kil talks about how “all lives matter” (ALM) has advanced Whiteness in the news.
LGBTQ+ Rights with Joanna Wuest
Joanna Wuest discusses her book, Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement.
Citizenship Stripping with Amanda Frost
Amanda Frost discusses her book, "You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers." Beginning with Reconstruction,...
Unpacking Our History Lecture: Disease, Slavery, and Politics in New Orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uS1r6zk7s Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms. But it was also the...