Amanda Frost discusses her book, "You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers." Beginning with Reconstruction,...
Citizenship Stripping with Amanda Frost
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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...
Pregnancy in America with Rebecca Grant
Journalist Rebecca Grant author of "Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America" discusses her book. She describes the current state...
Cop Fragility and Blue Lives Matter with Frank Rudy Cooper
Professor Frank Rudy Cooper discusses his article, "Cop Fragility and Blue Lives Matter." Professor Cooper discusses how after the rise of Black...
Role-Playing in Police Trainings with Christina Aushana
Christina Aushana discusses her article “Inescapable Scripts: Role-Playing Feminist (re)visions and Rehearsing Racialize State Violence in Police...
Plea Bargaining Bad Deals with Carissa Byrne Hessick
Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick discusses her book, “Punishment Without Trial,” and how plea bargaining has overtaken the criminal justice system
What Modern Medicine Gained from Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOM03Nr__n8 Medical science in antebellum America was a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human...
Migrant Suffering and White Democracy with Cristina Beltrán
Prof. Beltrain explains the how Herrenvolk Democracy is useful in understanding White Supremacy and how it transformed into White Democracy.
Black Trans Feminism Liberation with Marquis Bey
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.
Thin Blue Line of Police Unions with Aaron Bekemeyer
Professor Aaron Bekemeyer discusses the complicated history of police unionization.
Hemings, Baartman and Complicated Fame with Samantha Pinto
Professor Samantha Pinto discusses her book, Infamous Bodies Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights.
White Supremacist Constitution with Ruth Colker
Professor Ruth Colker discusses her 2022 Utah Law Review article, “The White Supremacist Constitution.”