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Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education

60 hours 8 mins; February 01, 2024

Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)

55 mins; January 31, 2024

David M. Henkin, "The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us who We are" (Yale UP, 2021)

58 mins; January 29, 2024

Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

64 hours 6 mins; January 28, 2024

Damien Sojoyner, "Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice" (Fordham UP, 2023)

43 mins; January 28, 2024

Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)

66 hours 56 mins; January 27, 2024

Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

57 mins; January 26, 2024

Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, "The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023)

40 mins; January 24, 2024

On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield

65 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2024

Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)

80 hours 35 mins; January 22, 2024

Kareem R. Muhammad, "The Fight for Black Empowerment in the USA: America’s Last Hope" (Routledge, 2023)

58 mins; January 22, 2024

Black and Queer on Campus

51 mins; January 18, 2024

Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

39 mins; January 18, 2024

Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

66 hours 40 mins; January 17, 2024

Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)

55 mins; January 17, 2024

Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

53 mins; January 15, 2024

Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)

80 hours 9 mins; January 14, 2024

Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)

71 hours 30 mins; January 14, 2024

Hajar Yazdiha, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement" (Princeton UP, 2023)

30 mins; January 12, 2024

Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)

61 hours 35 mins; January 09, 2024

Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)

74 hours 52 mins; January 08, 2024

Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)

51 mins; January 07, 2024

Leigh Claire La Berge, "Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary" (Duke UP, 2023)

37 mins; January 05, 2024

120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism

47 mins; January 04, 2024

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

61 hours 58 mins; January 03, 2024

Robert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat" (Routledge, 2023)

57 mins; January 02, 2024

Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

75 hours 32 mins; January 01, 2024

Laura Briggs, "Taking Children: A History of American Terror" (U California Press, 2020)

79 hours 16 mins; December 31, 2023

Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)

75 hours 40 mins; December 31, 2023

Hongwei Bao, “Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China” (NIAS Press, 2018)

46 mins; December 31, 2023

Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)

30 mins; December 28, 2023

Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)

59 mins; December 28, 2023

D. B. Maroon, "Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2023)

64 hours 59 mins; December 28, 2023

David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)

44 mins; December 26, 2023

Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)

62 hours 50 mins; December 26, 2023

Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)

46 mins; December 26, 2023

Jafari S. Allen, "There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life" (Duke UP, 2022)

70 hours 16 mins; December 25, 2023

James M. Lawson Jr. et al., "Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom" (U California Press, 2022)

21 mins; December 24, 2023

Daniel Shank Cruz, "Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature" (Penn State UP, 2023)

47 mins; December 24, 2023

Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)

53 mins; December 17, 2023

Violent Majorities: Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 2

49 mins; December 14, 2023

Russell T. McCutcheon, "Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion" (Routledge, 2023)

48 mins; December 13, 2023

Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US" (Oxford UP, 2023)

53 mins; December 12, 2023

Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman, "Capitalism and the Senses" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

57 mins; December 11, 2023

Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

33 mins; December 10, 2023

Tom Özden-Schilling, "The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods" (Duke UP, 2023)

81 hours 17 mins; December 09, 2023

Violent Majorities, Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism. Episode 1

51 mins; December 07, 2023

Self Help

20 mins; December 07, 2023

Shelly Kagan, "How to Count Animals, More Or Less" (Oxford UP, 2019)

55 mins; December 06, 2023

James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)

45 mins; December 06, 2023

Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)

74 hours 34 mins; December 05, 2023

Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)

73 hours 57 mins; December 04, 2023

Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

32 mins; December 02, 2023

Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce, "Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World" (The New Press, 2023)

33 mins; December 01, 2023

Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)

76 hours 2 mins; November 30, 2023

Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)

61 hours 32 mins; November 29, 2023

Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)

58 mins; November 29, 2023

Astra Taylor, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart" (House of Anansi Press, 2023)

61 hours 32 mins; November 28, 2023

Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)

39 mins; November 27, 2023

Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

45 mins; November 25, 2023

Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

63 hours 25 mins; November 25, 2023

Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

70 hours 35 mins; November 24, 2023

Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)

40 mins; November 24, 2023

Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

34 mins; November 23, 2023

Lydia Zvyagintseva and Mary Greenshields, "Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education" (Library Juice Press, 2022)

38 mins; November 23, 2023

Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)

92 hours 10 mins; November 23, 2023

Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenomenology of Black Spirit" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

52 mins; November 22, 2023

Economic Enchantments

21 mins; November 22, 2023

Andrea Jamison, "Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

47 mins; November 21, 2023

Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, "Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy" (Cascade Books, 2023)

66 hours 27 mins; November 20, 2023

Chris Cutrone, "The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions: 2006-2022" (Sublation Media, 2023)

66 hours 7 mins; November 19, 2023

Harry Harootunian, "Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2023)

49 mins; November 19, 2023

Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

48 mins; November 17, 2023

Plantationocene

18 mins; November 17, 2023

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 23 mins; November 15, 2023

Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)

48 mins; November 14, 2023

David Myer Temin, "Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

82 hours 8 mins; November 13, 2023

Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; November 13, 2023

Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)

51 mins; November 13, 2023

Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)

48 mins; November 12, 2023

Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)

81 hours 55 mins; November 09, 2023

Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)

45 mins; November 08, 2023

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)

74 hours 36 mins; November 03, 2023

Daniele Lorenzini, "The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

89 hours 7 mins; November 01, 2023

Henrik Fürst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

38 mins; October 30, 2023

Claire Jean Kim, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 29 mins; October 30, 2023

Frederick V. Engram, "Black Liberation Through Action and Resistance: MOVE" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

38 mins; October 30, 2023

Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)

44 mins; October 29, 2023

Simone Varriale, "Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration" (Bristol UP, 2023)

38 mins; October 29, 2023

Arjun Shankar, "Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India" (Duke UP, 2023)

70 hours 4 mins; October 28, 2023

Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)

65 hours 46 mins; October 28, 2023

Pat Thomson and Christine Hall, "Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life" (Routledge, 2023)

45 mins; October 28, 2023

James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)

40 mins; October 28, 2023

Nick Riemer, "Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

63 hours 28 mins; October 27, 2023

Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

55 mins; October 27, 2023

Denise D. Meringolo, "Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism" (Amherst College Press, 2021)

62 hours 14 mins; October 26, 2023

Decolonizing Praxis

23 mins; October 23, 2023

Noa Shaindlinger, "Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

64 hours 9 mins; October 22, 2023

Sonja K. Pieck, "Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)

52 mins; October 22, 2023

Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

43 mins; October 22, 2023

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