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Proving Pregnancy with Felicity Turner
Felicity Turner, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Georgia Southern University, discusses her book Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law,...
Teaching White Supremacy with Donald Yacovone
Donald Yacovone, lifetime associate at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, discusses his book, "Teaching...
Book Learning and Slave Education with Christopher Span
Christopher Span, Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses his work, “Sam’s Cottonfield...
Texas: Race, War, Colonialism with Gerald Horne
Professor Gerald Horne discusses his book, The Counter-revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of American Fascism. Prof....
Abolition’s Legal Failures with Giuliana Perrone
Giuliana Perrone, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, discusses her book, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of...
Black Homicide Victims with Gian Maria Campedelli
Gian Maria Campedelli, research scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy, discusses his research article, “Homicides Involving Black Victims...
Land and Identity in Africa with Kevin C. Dunn
Kevin C. Dunn, the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hobart and William Smith Colleges talks about his book,...
Judges and White Supremacy with Vida Johnson
Vida Johnson, professor at law at Georgetown law, discusses her article "White Supremacy and the Bench." In which she describes how judges maintain...
How Parents Talked To Their Children About BLM with Onnie Rogers
Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, discusses her article, "Exploring Whether and How Black and White Parents...
Slavery Origins of Gynecology with Deirdre Cooper Owens
Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens discusses her book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, which traces the origins of...
Radical Acts of Justice with Jocelyn Simonson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poReylr2aUo Professor Jocelyn Simonson talks about her book, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are...