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Interview Archives: Family
Wednesday May 23, 2012, 10:06 AM
Flagrant Conduct: the Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans
Dale Carpenter, J.D., the Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Family • Gay and Lesbian Issues • Government • Law
Monday May 07, 2012, 10:06 AM
A Family Farm: Life on an Illinois Dairy Farm
Robert L. Switzer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
Over the past hundred years the United States lost two-thirds of its family-operated farms. We’ll bring you the story of one such farm as we talk with Robert Switzer, author of "A Family Farm." The book tells the story of life on a Northern Illinois dairy farm beginning in 1916, the time of the author’s grandparents. The story ends when the farm is sold in 1991. The author says millions of these stories, often sad ones, could be told, but they are rapidly being lost.
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Categories: Agriculture • Biography • Family
Monday April 02, 2012, 11:06 AM
"The Power Geometry of Globalized Parenting: The Case of Taiwan"
Pei-Chia Lan, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University; Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
Host: David Inge
2nd Biennial Symposium on Vulnerable Families
Author Amy Chua caused a stir in this country last year with her book on the parenting styles of Chinese mothers. But sociologist Pei-Chia Lan says when the book was published in China, it clearly identified the author as “American.” How does culture shape ideas about parenting? How do ideas about parenting travel in a globalized world?
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Categories: Family • Asia • Afghanistan
Tuesday February 28, 2012, 11:06 AM
Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football: A Documentary Film
Ash-har Quraishi, Emmy Award-Winning Television Journalist, Writer, Photographer and Filmmaker
Basma Babar-Quraishi, Award-Winning, long-form, documentary, and breaking news Producer
Host: David Inge
The documentary "Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football," to be shown at 7 pm Monday at the Art Theater in Champaign, follows a predominantly Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice for their big cross-town rivalry game during Ramadan. David Inge talks to the filmmakers.
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Categories: Community • Education • K-12 • Family • Film/Movies • Sports • Students
Monday September 26, 2011, 10:06 AM
Glass Ceilings & 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family
Karine Moe, Ph.D., F. R. Bigelow Professor of Economics, Macalester College; Editor, Springer Publishing Series Economics of Gender
Dianna Shandy, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology; Director of African Studies, Macalester College
Host: Carol Spindel
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Family • Work
Wednesday August 17, 2011, 11:06 AM
The State of Minority Families
MaryLee Allen, M.S.W., Director of Child Welfare and Mental Health, Children's Defense Fund
Deborah Weinstein, M.S.W., Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
Host: David Inge
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- Mary Lee Allen profile
- Deborah Weinstein profile
- Children's Defense Fund 2011 Report, "The State of America's Children"
Categories: Community • Family • Public Policy
Thursday July 14, 2011, 11:06 AM
The End of Country
Seamus McGraw, Journalist
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Community • Energy • Environment • Family
Wednesday June 22, 2011, 11:06 AM
A Strange Stirring: The Femine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
Stephanie Coontz, Ph.D., Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families; Faculty Member teaching History and Family Studies, The Evergreen State College
Host: Celeste Quinn
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Categories: Behavior • Family • Marriage
Tuesday April 12, 2011, 11:06 AM
Protecting Children: the Champaign County Court Appointed Special Advocates
R. Rush Record, Executive Director, Champaign County CASA (Champaign County Court Appointed Special Advocates)
Howie Schein, CASA Volunteer
Host: Celeste Quinn
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Categories: Family
Friday April 08, 2011, 10:06 AM
Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle Over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama
James T. Patterson, Ph.D., the Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Community • Family • History • United States history • Politics • Poverty • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
