The Last Negroes at Harvard

By Kent Garrett

The podcast is about being Black in America for more than 80 years... as seen through the eyes of The Last Negroes at Harvard. There were 18 of us. We were in the Class of 1963. Before we leave the pl... more

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February 09, 2023 The Big Fix: The Hunt For the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer & Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret War
Brett Forrest is a national-security reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where his investigative work often focuses on the former Soviet Union. He has covered the war in Ukraine and was the first reporter into the Kiev suburb of Bucha following Russia’s military withdrawal… where he broke news of alleged atrocities.
Brett has two new books:
The Big Fix: The Hunt For the Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer &
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret War
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58min
February 03, 2023 Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park.
Her book illustrates how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. Black people's relationships to food have historically been connected to extreme forms of control and scarcity—as well as to stunning creativity and ingenuity. In advancing dialogue about eating and race, she urges us to think and talk about food in new ways in order to improve American society on both personal and structural levels.
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52min
January 27, 2023 Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.
Matthew Delmont is a Professor of History at Dartmouth. He is also in the Harvard College Class of 2000 (Lowell House).
His new book is filled with compelling narratives that outline with nuance, rigor, and complexity how Black Americans fought for this country abroad while simultaneously fighting for their rights here in the United States.
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53min
January 21, 2023 What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous "Doll Test" and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World
Tim Spofford tells the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the psychological effects of racial segregation. The Clarks' story is one of courage, love, and an unfailing belief that Black children deserved better than what society was prepared to give them, and their unrelenting activism played a critical role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.
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January 12, 2023 A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His new book (with co-author Lee C. Bollinger) is a timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.
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57min
January 06, 2023 The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the
Clara E. Mattei is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research (NYC). Her new book explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives. Those motives are the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below.
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56min
December 29, 2022 Diabetes: History of Race and Disease
Arleen Tuchman is a Professor of History at Vanderbilt University specializing in the cultural history of medicine. Her book traces the radical shift over the course of a century in beliefs about which populations were most likely to develop diabetes, from Jews in the early twentieth century to Native Americans, African Americans, and Hispanics today.
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57min
December 14, 2022 The “Psychology of Disagreement”
Julia Minson is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
She is a decision scientist with research interests in conflict, negotiations and decision making.
Her primary line of research involves the “psychology of disagreement” – How do people engage with opinions, judgments and decisions that are different from their own?
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1h
December 07, 2022 Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society
Victor Pickard, a Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, talks about his new book and the “news and information deserts” throughout the nation.
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November 26, 2022 Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat
Macklin Smith and Aurko Joshi
discovered their mutual love of rap music at the University of Michigan, where Macklin Smith taught a popular course in rap poetry… and Aurko Joshi was a student.
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56min

FAQs about The Last Negroes at Harvard:

How many episodes does The Last Negroes at Harvard have?

The podcast currently has 332 episodes available.