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Sacralizing the Urban Landscape

In his book God In Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan, now out in paperback, Jon Butler reveals how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. The chosen excerpt offers a short tour of Manhattan in the early 20th century, as city spaces everywhere…

Religion

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Sacralizing the Urban Landscape
Sacralizing the Urban Landscape
Religion

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May 12

Ideological Exclusion & Deportation: Political Repression through the Suppression of Free Expression

In Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States, Julia Rose Kraut reveals how the United States has a long history of barring or expelling foreign noncitizens based on their political expressions and associations to suppress dissent throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from…

Immigration

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Ideological Exclusion & Deportation: Political Repression through the Suppression of Free…
Ideological Exclusion & Deportation: Political Repression through the Suppression of Free…
Immigration

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Apr 28

The Kind of Justice Which Only a Brother Can Give

Jean Rhodes’ award-winning book Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century, now out in paperback, surveys the state of youth mentoring and offers effective paths forward for the field today. In the following excerpt, Rhodes recounts the touching story behind the foundation of the first…

Psychology

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The Kind of Justice Which Only a Brother Can Give
The Kind of Justice Which Only a Brother Can Give
Psychology

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Mar 23

Dismal Nationalism

Tim Harper’s Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire tells the dramatic story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent. Underground Asia was a Financial Times and Economist best…

History

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Dismal Nationalism
Dismal Nationalism
History

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Mar 13

Cannibal Gold

Exhibiting at The Shed through April 16 is The Yanomami Struggle, a collection dedicated to the Yanomami people’s fight against the invasion of their land. The exhibition features paintings and drawings by contemporary Yanomami artists and is narrated through the voice of shaman Davi Kopenawa. Below is an excerpt from…

Science

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Cannibal Gold
Cannibal Gold
Science

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Feb 27

The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Education

Jarvis R. Givens chronicles the subversive tradition of Black education in America in his award-winning book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. This excerpt unpacks the complicated narrative of the fugitive slave and its place in both Black collective memory and curricula. The theory of…

Education

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The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Education
The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Education
Education

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Feb 23

Can You Dig It with Beyoncé?

Black History Month highlights the importance of recognizing the essential work Black artists do to define — and redefine — culture. In her award-winning book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, Daphne Brooks unpacks the iconography of Beyoncé’s legendary visual album Lemonade in relation…

Music

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Music

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Oct 31, 2022

To Autumn

October 31st marks John Keats birthday, and it is also the publication date of Susan J. Wolfson’s new book, A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries. We’d like to honor both by sharing Keats’s poem “To Autumn.” As Wolfson says in her commentary, the poem…

Poetry

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To Autumn
To Autumn
Poetry

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Feb 22, 2022

On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston

We round out our celebration of Black History Month with an excerpt from Daphne Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award and a Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year. “Vivid, joyful, and heartbreaking in its…

Music

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On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston
On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston
Music

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Feb 15, 2022

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Our third excerpt to celebrate Black History Month comes from Vincent Brown’s award-winning Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, which Cornel West calls “brilliant” and “groundbreaking.” This gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an uprising that laid bare the interconnectedness…

Black History Month

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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Black History Month

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