Historians on Housewives

In which the Historians discuss family law, poverty law, and divorce law and how they come up on the Real Housewives, “high-wealth families” legal regulations around high-wealth exceptionalism, the Girardi divorce, the differences between trusts and estates and much, much more!

Further Readings

Allison Tate, Home of the Dispossessed, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (2022). 

Allison Tate, Inheriting Privilege, 116 Minnesota Law Review (2022). 

Allison Tate, Custom of The Country: Trusts and Marriage Planning in High-Wealth Families, 34 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Journal 219 (2021).

Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh

Rachel Sherman,  "'A Very Expensive Ordinary Life': Consumption, Symbolic Boundaries, and Moral Legitimacy among New York Elites." Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 411-433 (2018)

Sources

Lisa Vanderpump in ABC's "Poison Arrow"

Clip from Real Housewives of New York, Season 10 Episode 12: "Every Mayflower Has Its Thorn"

Social Media

Twitter: @HistoriansH

Etsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives

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In which the historians discuss the long history of Native sovereignty and the encroachment of state and federal government onto Native lands, issues of sovereignty, wardship and citizenship for Indigenous people, and how issues of Native identity are represented on the Real Housewives of New York, Potomac, and Atlanta, as well as much, much more!

For the article we reference in this episode, see: Sarah Viren, “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t,” The New York Times Magazine (May 25, 2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html

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In which the Historians discuss the ongoing Erika Jayne scandal, celebrity culture and the production of reality tv, the art of interviewing Housewives, and much, much more!

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In which the Historians pick up where they left up… with a Bonko Party Game Break, unpack Porsha’s infamous underground railroad comment, build on more connections between the Real Housewives and Black women’s understanding of freedom and liberty in the Revolutionary Era, allege some wild things about Patty Stanger’s Millionaire Matchmaker, and much, much, more!

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In which the Historians discuss the historiography of enslaved women and the importance of slavery scholarship circa 2004, gab about Flavor of Love and the Real World, the origins of the JMIL-McNeil crossover, Adam’s fabulous New Books in African American Studies podcast, shoutout Mumia, and much, much more! 

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In which the Historians start off with a Bonko Party game break before segueing into a discussion comparing the musicals 1776 and Hamilton, the experiences of enslaved people in Virginia's Chiswell Lead Mines, Loyalism in the Revolution, whether the American Revolution was indeed revolutionary, Star Trek, and much, much more!

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Sean Gallagher is a historian of enslaved people and state slaveholding in the American Revolution. He will be starting a postdoc at the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society in Fall 2021.

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In which the Historians discuss how our guest got into reality television and Bravo, play two games, hear a pitch on cord-cutting, discuss the CosmicDoc, spirituality and ghosts on RHOD, and much, much more!

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In which the Historians discuss enslavement at sea, the metaphysical presence of the ghosts of the enslaved, spirit channelling and Tyler Henry, Sowande’ Mustakeem’s band Amalghemy, and much, much more!

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