Episode 35 – Public Opinion of Reparations with Michael Conklin

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 35 - Public Opinion of Reparations with Michael Conklin
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Dr. Michael Conklin is the Powell Endowed Professor of Business Law at Angelo State University. He received his JD from Washburn School of Law, MBA […]

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Episode 34 – Colonialism: Religion, Class, Race with Gerald Horne

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 34 - Colonialism: Religion, Class, Race with Gerald Horne
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Professor Gerald Horne discusses his book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth […]

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Episode 33 – Black Power in Alabama with Hasan Kwame Jeffries

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 33 - Black Power in Alabama with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
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Hasan Jeffries discusses his book Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt. We talk about what made this rural Alabama County […]

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Episode 32 – Racial Diversity with Pamela Newkirk

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 32 - Racial Diversity with Pamela Newkirk
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In Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business Pamela Newkirk exposes the decades-old practices and attitudes that have made diversity a lucrative business […]

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Episode 31 – The Women of White Supremacy with Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 31 - The Women of White Supremacy with Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
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We begin with the shocking history of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Law which sought to identify citizens “passing” as white and how this law served to […]

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Episode 30 – The Southern Manifesto with John Kyle Day

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 30 - The Southern Manifesto with John Kyle Day
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John Day looks at the congressional statement drafted and signed by 99 congressmen in response to Brown V. Board of Education. The statement, nicknamed the […]

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Episode 29 – The Year of White Terrorism with David Krugler

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 29 - The Year of White Terrorism with David Krugler
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Professor Krugler discusses his book, 1919: the Year of Racial Violence and How African Americans Fought Back. We specifically focus on Chicago and Knoxville riots […]

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Episode 28 – Color of Law with Richard Rothstein

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 28 - Color of Law with Richard Rothstein
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Richard Rothstein discusses his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which recovers a forgotten history of how […]

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Episode 27 – Dave Brubeck’s Civil Rights Advocacy with Kelsey Klotz

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 27 - Dave Brubeck's Civil Rights Advocacy with Kelsey Klotz
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Kelsey Klotz is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her PhD in Musicology with a certificate in American Studies […]

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Episode 26 – The Eighth Amendment, Pt. 3 with Alexandra Natapoff

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Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Episode 26 - The Eighth Amendment, Pt. 3 with Alexandra Natapoff
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Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Alexandra Natapoff discusses her book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal. 

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