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  • Jane Crow: The Radical Legacy of Pauli Murray

    Jane Crow: The Radical Legacy of Pauli Murray
    2024/11/27
    Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of several books including Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism, and her latest, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray was the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and her legal work on the 14th Amendment provided the groundwork for Brown v. Board and inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work with women’s rights and the 14th Amendment. Murray also struggled with issues of identity; by today’s standards, she would be considered transgender. The post Jane Crow: The Radical Legacy of Pauli Murray appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Who is Inside and Who is Outside of the Circle of Citizenship in America

    Who is Inside and Who is Outside of the Circle of Citizenship in America
    2024/11/26
    Guest: Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and Co-President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. The post Who is Inside and Who is Outside of the Circle of Citizenship in America appeared first on KPFA.
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  • 19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America

    19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America
    2024/11/25
    Guest: Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Laws That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. The post 19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Jack Weatherford on Kublai Khan and the Making of China

    Jack Weatherford on Kublai Khan and the Making of China
    2024/11/21
    Guest: Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist and author of the best-selling book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. He has spent over 25 years exploring Mongolia and its history, and his writing on the Mongol Empire has transformed our understanding of its long legacy. Jack Weatherford is the retired DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota, and he is the only foreigner ever inducted into the Order of Chinggis Khaan, Mongolia’s highest national honor. His other books include The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Genghis Khan and the Quest for God, Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World, The History of Money, and his latest, Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China. The post Jack Weatherford on Kublai Khan and the Making of China appeared first on KPFA.
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  • The Religious Experience & Social Movements

    The Religious Experience & Social Movements
    2024/11/20
    Gary Dorrien is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books and three hundred articles that range across social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and political theory, religious history, cultural criticism, and intellectual history. He is the recipient of many awards including the Grawemeyer Award in 2017 for his book The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. His latest book is Over from Union Road My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life. The post The Religious Experience & Social Movements appeared first on KPFA.
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  • How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic

    How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic
    2024/11/19
    Guest: Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. The post How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.
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