What do we really know about China's political system and civil society? We discuss with two experts.
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An interview with Judith Stacey (NYU), a towering figure in gender studies, interviewed by Philip Cohen (Maryland)
In this ALL-BANTER episode, we discuss China’s social rating system, managing our schools’ and discipline’s service obligations, and reactions to the reboot of Roseanne.
In this segment of The Annex, we interview Becky Yang Hsu of Georgetown University about her new book, Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties with Cambridge University Press.
In this week’s episode of The Annex, we talk to Becky Yang Hsu of Georgetown University. Becky recently published a new book, Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties with Cambridge University Press. We also discuss microlending in rural China, Black Panther, spouses frustrating efforts to conspicuously display cultural capital, and sociology departments’ […]
We discuss China's Uyghurs, the casting of Uyghurs as whites in Chinese culture, and the Uyghurs' heritage.
This week, we talk to Cristina Mora from UC Berkeley about politics and the Hispanic community in America and abroad. Cristina’s book is Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats and Media Constructed a New American (2014, University of Chicago Press). The gang also has a heated argument about objectivity and activism, and […]
This week, we speak to Georgetown sociologist Corey Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans (2016, University of California Press). Also, Twitter’s experiment with 280 character Tweets, China’s crackdown on Uighurs, post-Christianity in Europe, and Chris Hayes’ A Colony and a Nation.
