Bedrosian Bookclub Podcast USC Bedrosian Center

In Citizen, Claudia Rankine wrote: “Because white men can’t / police their imagination / black people are dying."

In her follow-up book, Just Us: An American Conversation, Rankine comes back to her exploration of conversation and the racial imaginary of the United States.

Host Aubrey Hicks is joined by LaVonna Lewis, Olivia Olson, Sumun Pendakur, and David Sloane.

Joan Samson’s 'The Auctioneer' is a classic. Her characters live in a very different time, the horror they face remains entirely relatable.

Set in a farming community in New Hampshire, the Joan Samson creates a town of residents bracing for change, unsure of the future and looking toward an understood past.

Host Lisa Schweitzer is joined by Aubrey Hicks, Jeff Jenkins, and Stacy Patterson.

Given recent events, the findings of a recent USC Price report can help us understand why & how the dialogue between communities & law enforcement is so fraught. This project can help us understand both the conflict & where to go from here.

The USC Price Center for Social Innovation partnered with Microsoft & the USC Price Safe Communities Inst. to launch the NDSC Criminal Justice Data Initiative, this report details year one.

For links: https://bedrosian.usc.edu/ndsc

The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, focuses on an outbreak of cholera in central London in 1854. John Snow, a doctor who theorized that cholera was waterborne, used the opportunity to collect data to prove his theory. Meanwhile the neighborhood vicar, Henry Whitehead, wanted to prove him wrong. Johnson argues that the work of these two men ushered in the modern city.

Did cholera change the world?

🎧 Host Aubrey Hicks is joined by Jeff Jenkins and David Sloane from USC Price.

An interview with author of The Affordable City by Shane Phillips. (Follow Phillips on Twitter: @ShaneDPhillips)

Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions.

Read along with us! For September, we’re reading The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.

An interview with author of The Address Book, Deirdre Mask.

The Address Book is a broad look at the invention and proliferation of the address. Relatively new, addresses were first a way for royals to count their subjects. Today, addresses can reflect our identity, our history, our race, and our access to opportunity. With the postal service in jeopardy, and the world in disarray, settle in for an interview with a beguiling author.