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June 8, 2020 (May 18, 2020)

Q&A with Jasmine Mitchell, Author of Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

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Jasmine Mitchell answers some questions about her new book, Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? “You look exotic, […]

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June 4, 2020 (June 4, 2020)

Christine Talbot on Mormonism and Polygamy

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The following is a guest post from Christine Talbot, author of A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890. This June, we are offering a free ebook […]

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July 3, 2019 (June 19, 2019)

Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky On “The Difference Between Killing Humanely and a Humane Killing”

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Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky is a doctoral student in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He recently shared his thoughts with us on his article, “A […]

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May 15, 2019 (May 6, 2019)

Angelique Harris on “Emotions, Feelings, and Social Change”

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Dr. Angelique Harris is the founding director of the Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program and is an associate professor of sociology  in […]

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April 3, 2019 (April 1, 2019)

Candis Bond on “Catcalling and the College Classroom”

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Candis E. Bond is an assistant professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Augusta University, where she also serves as director of the university writing center. Her areas […]

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April 1, 2019 (March 27, 2019)

Authors on Issues: James E. Dobson on Critiquing Digital Humanities Methods

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The following is a guest post from James E. Dobson, author of Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology.   The sheer number of sessions on the digital humanities […]

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March 8, 2019

Sonja Thomas on “Tap Dancing and Embodied Feminist Pedagogies”

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Sonja Thomas is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College, where she teaches courses on gender and human rights, feminist theory, critical race feminisms, and […]

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May 30, 2018 (July 24, 2018)

Authors on Issues: Courtney Baker on Childish Gambino’s “This is America”

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The following is a guest post from Courtney R. Baker, the author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death. ? When I first published my book […]

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April 23, 2018 (April 25, 2018)

Authors on Issues: Stefan M. Bradley on the 1968 Columbia University Student Rebellion

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The following is a guest post from Stefan M. Bradley, the author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s. “Racist Gym Must Go!”: Remembering the […]

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March 13, 2018

Authors on Issues: Jane Rhodes on “Black Panther” Mania

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The following is a guest post from Jane Rhodes, the author of Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon.  The Revolution has come. . . […]

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February 2, 2018

Authors on Issues: The Political Football

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 In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Thomas P. Oates, author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL, writes about the political and cultural […]

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November 1, 2017 (February 2, 2018)

Authors on Issues: What do Employers have to do with Individualism and Racism?

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        In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson, co-editors of the edited collection Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized […]

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