Producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Edward E. Baptist, Associate Professor in the department of History at Cornell University and author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.
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A Tribute to Alex Haley (Ep. 09, 2016)
In Black America presents a 1988 interview with the late Alex Haley, the acclaimed writer best known as the author of “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
Texas Standard: January 20, 2016
The Attorney General takes a gamble and decides to shut down fantasy sports betting. Will Texas play along? Also, what’s it like planning a presidential debate and how much does a party like that cost? The female horse riders turning heads at the Fort Worth Stock show and America’s other original sin: how enslaving native Americans helped prop up the African slave trade. Those stories and lots more on todays Texas Standard:
Heather O’Connell and Robert Reese (Ep. 06, 2016)
In Black America presents a discussion of the legacy of slavery with Heather O’Connell and Robert Reese, co-authors of “How The Legacy of Slavery and Racial Composition Shapes Public School Enrollment in the American South.”
Pancakes: Toni-Tipton Martin (Ep. 2)
In this episode of Views and Brews we’ll tour over 100 years of southern cooking with Toni-Tipton Martin author of The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks! Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy, along with food writers and hosts of KUT’s newest podcast The Secret Ingredient, Tom Philpott and Raj Patel, as we explore the rich social, political, and economic history of the south, through food.
V&B – Jemima Code/The Secret Ingredient Launch
In this episode of Views and Brews we’ll tour over 100 years of southern cooking with Toni-Tipton Martin author of The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks! Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy, along with food writers and hosts of KUT’s newest podcast The Secret Ingredient, Tom Philpott and Raj Patel, as we explore the rich social, political, and economic history of the south, through food.
Sugar: Sidney Mintz (Ep. 1)
In this episode we talk with anthropologist Sidney Mintz about his seminal work Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar In Modern History. Mintz takes us through our prehistoric relationship to sweetness–from the bloody history of slavery and sugar production to our current state of the mass production and consumption of sweetness worldwide. He talks about how factories developed on the sugar plantations and the way slavery developed in the New World, as well as the role this brutal past plays in current volatile racial relations in the U.S.