Category Archives: Q&A

July 15, 2019

Q&A with Robert Lemon, author of “The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City”

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Robert Lemon is an urban and social researcher and documentary filmmaker. His films include Transfusión (2014), a series of vignettes on the cultural implications of taco trucks. He recently answered some questions about his new book The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street … Continue reading →

July 8, 2019

Q&A with Jake Johnson, author of Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America

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Jake Johnson is an assistant professor of musicology in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University. He recently answered some questions about his new book, Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America. Q: Why did you decide to … Continue reading →

June 27, 2019

Q&A with Susan Potter, author of “Queer Timing”

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Susan Potter is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sydney. She recently answered some questions about her new book, Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? When I … Continue reading →

June 14, 2019

Q&A with Erika K. Jackson, author of “Scandinavians in Chicago”

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Erika K. Jackson is an associate professor of history at Colorado Mesa University. She recently answered some questions about her book, Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I … Continue reading →

May 24, 2019

Cicero M. Fain III on “Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story”

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Cicero M. Fain III is a professor of history at the College of Southern Maryland. He recently answered some questions about his new book Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story. _______________________________________ Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I decided … Continue reading →

May 20, 2019

Rediscovering the Black Arts Movement, Jonathan Fenderson on Hoyt Fuller

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Jonathan Fenderson is an assistant professor of African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He recently answered some questions about his new book Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s.  … Continue reading →

May 17, 2019

Q&A with Melanie Holmes, author of A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A Johnston

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Melanie Holmes is the author of The Female Assumption, recipient of a 2014 Global Media Award from the Population Institute. She recently answered some questions about her new book, A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. … Continue reading →

April 12, 2019

Donna J. Nicol and Jennifer A. Yee on “Reclaiming Our Time”

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Donna J. Nicol is an associate professor and the chair of Africana studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. Jennifer A. Yee is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Nicol and Yee recently answered … Continue reading →

April 8, 2019

Melissa Phruksachart “On Mentoring Future Faculty of Color”

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Melissa Phruksachart (prook-sa-chart) is LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. She teaches and researches across Asian/American studies, women of color and transnational feminist politics, and U.S. minority film and media. … Continue reading →

March 25, 2019

Q&A with Christopher J. Smith, author of Dancing Revolution

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Christopher J. Smith is a professor, chair of musicology, and founding director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. He is the author of the award-winning book The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and … Continue reading →