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How Immigrant Workers Hold Up the Food System
Aug 27 2025
Authors Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares on why there can be no quality or sustainable food for consumers if frontline immigrant workers are not treated with dignity and justice.
A Sad Prediction Born Out by Events
Aug 13 2025
Twenty-two years ago, author James Ron published a book that predicted much of what we see today in Gaza. He reflects on what the book got right and wrong, in the wake of current events.
The Ideals, Imaginaries, and Symbolisms of Hospital Nursing: A Q&A with Claudia Agostoni
Aug 05 2025
We talk with Claudia Agostoni about her "Mexican Studies" article examining the training, work, and qualities of hospital nursing staff in Mexico City during the 1940s and 1950s.
Is There a Way to Fight Back?
Aug 05 2025
Author John Chalcraft discusses a new theory of popular mobilization, helping us to fight for an alternative to the multiple crises of the present—from authoritarianism to genocide.
How Black Workers Drove Interracial Labor Solidarity
Aug 04 2025
The elusive promise of interracial solidarity is an age-old question, one made all the more urgent in the current political climate. Can Black and white workers stick together against their bosses?
Epidemics, Quarantine, and Japanese American Incarceration: A Q&A with Jonathan van Harmelen
Aug 01 2025
Inspired by the COVID pandemic and his ongoing research on Japanese American history, historian Jonathan van Harmelen investigates the medical history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
Mapping Lesbian History: Q&A with Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz
Jul 30 2025
Historians Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz use digital mapping technology to uncover a hidden geography of lesbian life in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing patterns of connection among lesbian women in urban areas, small towns, and rural America.
Q&A with Venezia Michalsen, author of "Intersectional Feminist Criminology"
Jul 11 2025
Author Venezia Michalsen discusses her motivations for writing the book and the impact she hopes it will have on other Criminology students and scholars.
The Price of Hunger in the United States
Jun 30 2025
Author Dana Simmons on her new book, "On Hunger."
Solidarity and World Cinema Otherwise
Jun 28 2025
Author José Miguel Palacios on what solidarity might mean for film and media studies through Chilean exile film history.