Welcome to the Reuther Library's podcast archive. They are arranged by publication date with the most recent on top and the oldest at the bottom.
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[Podcast] A Double Agent, a Conservative Affirmative Action Advocate, and a Black Nationalist Walk Into an Archive...: Field Report with Archivist Louis Jones
Posted March 24th, 2020 by teller
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- Affirmative action programs
- African American businesspeople
- African Americans
- African Americans--History
- Anti-communist movements -- United States
- Black power--Michigan--Detroit
- Chrysler Corporation
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Ford Motor Company
- Labor
- Michigan--politics and government
- Politics--Michigan
- World War, 1939-1945
After a brief hiatus we’re back! Reuther Library Field Archivist Louis Jones discusses fascinating collections recently opened at the Reuther Library. read more »
[Podcast] Uncovering Detroit Sound: Sippie Wallace and Son House in the Folklore Archives
Posted January 2nd, 2020 by teller
Archivist Bart Bealmear explains how he rediscovered recordings of famed African American blues musicians Sippie Wallace and Son House buried in the Reuther Library's Folklore Archives. read more »
[Podcast] Hidden in the Fields: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship
Posted December 6th, 2019 by teller
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Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez explains how labor laws helped define the modern boundaries of childhood and citizenship for both internationally and domestically migrant Latinx children working on American farms. read more »
[Podcast] Punishing Promise: School Discipline in the Era of Desegregation
Posted October 17th, 2019 by teller
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Matt Kautz explains how his observations while teaching in Detroit and Chicago led him to study the rise of suspensions and other disciplinary tactics in urban districts during school desegregation, fueling the school-to-prison pipeline. read more »
[Podcast] Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins
Posted September 19th, 2019 by teller
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- Civil rights
- Emigration and immigration--History--20th century
- Equality
- Immigrants--United States--History
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Labor unions
- Labor unions--organizing
- Radicalism
- Robbins, Matilda
- Socialism
- Socialist Party (U.S.)
- Strikes and lockouts
- Women in the labor movement
- Women's rights
In a two-episode series, artist Robbin Légère Henderson discusses her exhibition of original scratchboard drawings featured in the illustrated and annotated autobiography of Henderson's grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins, a Socialist, IWW organizer, feminist, writer, mother, and social worker. read more »
