Focus
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Interview Archives: Race/Ethnicity
Tuesday April 24, 2012, 10:06 AM
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Politics, Whitman College
Host: David Inge
Over the past century commercially baked white bread has been considered the height of modern progress and a symbol of America’s decline. How is it that one food could inspire so much love and so much disdain. On Focus we’ll explore the social history of white bread with Aaron Bobrow Strain. He teaches the politics of the global food system at Whitman College. He says that industrial white bread has played an incredibly important and largely unnoticed role in American politics, diet, culture and food reform movements.
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Gender issues • History • Immigration • Race/Ethnicity
Tuesday November 08, 2011, 11:06 AM
Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis
Jennifer F. Hamer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Community • Cultural Studies • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • United States • Illinois
Wednesday October 26, 2011, 10:06 AM
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson, Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction, Boston University; 1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Writing
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Biography • Community • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Monday May 02, 2011, 10:06 AM
"Latino Immigrant Lives: Reflections for Reform"
Cecilia Menjivar, Ph.D., the Cowden Distinguished Professor, Shool of Social and Family Dynamics Program, Arizona State University
Host: David Inge
Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Social Justice Lecture
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Categories: Gender issues • Race/Ethnicity • Latino/Latina affairs
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
Tuesday January 11, 2011, 11:06 AM
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--a New History of the Cvil Rights to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Wayne State University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Gender issues • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • Violence
Monday January 03, 2011, 11:06 AM
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
Thomas C. Holt, Ph.D., James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of American and African American History, University of Chicago
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Diaspora • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • Slavery
Tuesday November 23, 2010, 10:06 AM
"A Call for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools"
Michael Casserly, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Council of the Great City Schools
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Community • Education • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Wednesday October 13, 2010, 11:06 AM
"From Spirit to Body: Approaches to Violence and Memory in Zimbabwe"
Terence Ranger, Ph.D., Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford, England; formerly Chair of Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Oxford; George A. Miller Visitng Professor, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
CAS/MillerComm2011 Speaker
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Categories: Race/Ethnicity • Africa • Zimbabwe
Tuesday September 07, 2010, 11:06 AM
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
Yunte Huang, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Literature • Race/Ethnicity • Asian/Pacific Islander
