The Sound and the Furious Andy Crank & Elizabeth Stockton
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- History
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Two professors use humor, curse words, and hopefully some insight to connect today's events with American history.
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3.2 Short Form, Humiliation
In which one of confesses to not having read a common, well known work--and gets ridiculed. Plus, John drives Miss Daisy, and none of us praise famous men.
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3.1 A New Hope
We're BACK. Vaccinated, Biden-ed, and with a new co-host to inject more humanities antibodies. We discuss where the humanities fits into a post-Trump world, if there's any such thing.
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Whatever Happened to the Wetlands?
We're joined by Anthony Wilson, expert on all things swamp, to discuss the importance of swamps and wetlands. The Trump administration is rolling back protections of these important spaces, and we sink deep into why these landscapes are so captivating in American culture. Swamp Thing, Swamplandia, Peanut Butter Falcon, Harriet Jacobs, and more!
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Ep 15, Green Book and the Interracial Buddy Film
We explain why you too should be mad that Green Book won Best Picture. The film carries on a long--and ugly--history of viewing racism through white eyes, asserting that all that's needed to end it is biracial friendship. Actually just one biracial friendship. Plus the movie's not very good.
Elizabeth compares this to the myth of white heroics in the Underground Railroad, while Andy breaks down other films, including 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, and Driving Miss Daisy.
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Ep 13, Environmental Racism
We talk to Terressa Benz and Cedric Taylor about the Flint water crisis. Professors Benz and Taylor both draw on their scholarship to inform their social justice work in different ways.
Then, Andy discusses recent hurricanes in the global South and the ways that environmental racism affected Americans' political and cultural responses. Elizabeth talks about environmental injustice in relation to historic African American sites.
And then we talk Weezer and tiki bars.
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Ding! Dong! Silent Sam is Dead
Andy and Elizabeth discuss the news surrounding the complete removal of Silent Sam. Why should anyone outside of UNC care? What does this tell us about monuments to the Confederacy? Who should we thank?
Andy also interviews Hilary Green at the University of Alabama, who has created pop up museums and enhanced walking tours to elucidate the relationship between slavery and America's colleges.
Plus, TV rec's!
Customer Reviews
So glad to have them back!
Like reconnecting with old friends who are smarter than you but generously spray said smartness into your face holes.
Nerding out
New to the podcast and I love it. Hope there’s new content on the way!
Alt-Ac Inspiration
The episodes of this podcast are rich in information and analysis. Unlike other history podcasts that feel like Wikipedia pages just read out loud, this podcast offers insight beyond the facts of history.
As a freshly minted PhD in English, I want to see more and more academics doing the kind of work the hosts are doing with this podcast, particularly as they are helping to question and redefine public intellectualism.