Best Jenny Hobbs Podcasts (2025)

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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio 56:35

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Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, stud…

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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice 55:43

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When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as th…

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Daniel A. Rodriguez, "The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana" (U North Carolina Press, 2020) 51:58

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Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation, The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power…

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Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025) 28:19

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In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and wield political power for the greater good. Yet, as Michael Rosino shows in Democracy Is Awkward (UNC Press, 2025), progressive political organizations in the United States have frequently failed to …

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María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:08:53

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In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived…

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Digital marketing simulation with Louis Havriliuc 18:52

2M ago18:52

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Louis Havriliuc has created an amazing digital marketing simulation tool called Simbound. If you want to find out how to undertake an effective digital marketing campaign, Simbound is a great way to learn. The online platform allows learners to create a range of digital marketing tools and experiment with different techniques to understand their ef…

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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:05:57

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Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceratio…

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Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:11:27

3M ago1:11:27

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The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation …

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Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:07:40

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Most US history textbooks contain a familiar map: shaded colors stretch across North America, clearly and neatly demarcating the extent of US expansion from 1776 thru the late nineteenth century. In The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limites of Manifest Destiny (UNC Press, 2025), University of Kansas distinguished historian Andrew…

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Social media content for TV shows, with Jenny Novitzky 33:46

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Jenny Novitzky makes social media content for some of the UK's top TV shows. Her work as a senior digital producer has included content for The Great British Bake Off, The Great British Sewing Bee, The Great Pottery Throw Down and The Piano. In fact, Jenny has appeared on more series of Bake Off than Mary Berry, Mel and Sue! The chances are, many o…

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Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:07:10

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On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across…

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Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024) 54:20

3M ago54:20

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The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a wo…

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Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:19:45

3M ago1:19:45

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Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and migrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and sell this desirable food. In Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War I…

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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn 1:12:17

4M ago1:12:17

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Our book is: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) by award-winning historian Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers. Dr. Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson. Johnson was the owner…

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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra 1:07:44

4M ago1:07:44

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Our book is: Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra (UNC Press, 2025), by Ericka Verba, which explores the life of Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967). Parra is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and t…

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Building (and selling) a digital marketing agency with Jon Payne 41:49

5M ago41:49

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We chat with Jon Payne, an entrepreneur in the world of digital marketing. Jon wears various hats, including being the founder of the successful Bristol agency Noisy Little Monkey, a RevOps freelance consultant, the former host of the popular Digital Gaggle events, and now one of the driving forces behind Building Brands. Jon shares some of the les…

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Adrian de Leon, "Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:15:36

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In a book that pulls together both sides of the Pacific, Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (UNC Press, 2023) asks the question: what if we look at Filipino history not from the cities or the imperial metropoles, but from the mountains and the countryside? Or put another way, from the "bundok," the Tagalog word for "mountain" which Am…

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Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024) 38:56

5M ago38:56

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A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC Press, 2024) tells the little-known story of "segregation scholarships" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre-Brown v. Board of Education era. Under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, decades e…

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Digital storytelling with Stephen Hobbs 37:22

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We chat with Stephen Hobbs, an expert in digital storytelling. Stephen is a respected and experienced marketer who has worked with many household brands including Google, Volvo and O2. We discuss the importance of content and storytelling in the age of AI. Stephen tells us that his initial career as a journalist gives him a slightly different persp…

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Travis A. Weisse, "Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" (UNC Press, 2024) 53:09

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In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) Dr. Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frus…

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Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:03:30

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The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 ed…

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Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024) 33:15

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In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through contaminated blood products. In 1985, he became a household name after he was barred from attend…

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Marketing analytics with Jill Quick 42:50

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We chat with Google Analytics expert Jill Quick about the importance of collecting and analysing the right data. Jill tells us why it marketers should take a strategic approach to measurement, and why she called her business The Coloring In Department. You can connect with Jill here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillquick01/ You will also find plent…

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:10:05

7M ago1:10:05

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In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country's most prominent college football teams, Kalma…

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Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024) 56:03

8M ago56:03

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Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once the United States came into existence, its citizens immediately asserted rights to emigrate for political allegiances elsewhere. Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America (UNC Press, 2024) r…

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Ryan Emanuel, "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2024) 45:35

8M ago45:35

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Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Ind…

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Zach Fredman, "The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949" (UNC Press, 2022) 1:00:52

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The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (UNC Press, 2022) explores the wartime partnership between China and the United States from the ground up. Beginning in 1941, and especially after Pearl Harbor, both sides had high hopes for wartime cooperation against Japan. But as The Tormented Alliance shows, ‘a m…

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A Conversation with My 8-year old: Navigating Anxiety, ADHD, and Perfectionism 36:47

8M ago36:47

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Send us a text This week, I'm sharing an interview with my 8-year-old daughter. in this fun, free-flowing conversation, we talk about the stresses of starting a new school year, ADHD, anxiety, emotional regulation skills, perfectionism, and more. You'll come away with a smile on your face and helpful insights for your own family. Remember, if you o…

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Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:00:44

9M ago1:00:44

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From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba (UNC Press, 2024) explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theate…

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Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023) 44:02

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If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fau…

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Building Brands Bristol 2024 38:46

9M ago38:46

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In this episode, recorded in the Bristol Business School studio, we speak to five of the presenters from the Building Brands Conference in Bristol. Each guest gave a quick summary of the main points from their presentations, as well as telling us a little bit about what their work in digital marketing involves. Our guests are (in order of appearanc…

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Mom Choice Time: What It Is and Why You Need It 13:09

9M ago13:09

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Send us a text How are you and your family handling the back-to-school season? It's such a fun and exciting time, but can also be challenging, especially for those of us with neurodivergent families. In this episode, I’m sharing a bit about how our family approaches this time of year, and offering a few tips & mindset shifts to make the transition …

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Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019) 1:43:20

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In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars h…

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Advertising on social media with Vasia Apostolaki 25:56

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This is a great discussion with Vasia Apostolaki, an expert in social media advertising. Vasia is an account director at dentsu international in London, with particular experience working with luxury brands. We discuss why social media advertising is so effective, ethical issues, and areas for future development. As usual we also discuss some inter…

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Setting Limits with Compassion: Feelings First, not Feelings Only 28:45

9M ago28:45

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Send us a text Have you ever struggled to balance empathy and authority as a mom? This can be one of the biggest challenges of parenting, particularly if you have a neurodiverse family with lots of big emotions. We want to show compassion for our kids, but what bout when they're being rude or violent? How can we also teach them that those behaviors…

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Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022) 1:14:04

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Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the role of law enforcement in struggles over economic development, and the intellectual and practical factors of research design. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the ma…

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Your Job is to Help Your Kid FEEL The Feeling. Not to FIX It. 15:53

10M ago15:53

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Send us a text Do you ever wonder if putting your child's feelings first means letting go of boundaries? In this week’s episode of "Rethink Your Rules," I challenge the conventional wisdom that prioritizing emotions leads to chaos. I’ll clear up some of the most common misconceptions about “Feelings First,” including the fact that acknowledging you…

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When Your Kid is Angry at You: Feelings First 30:51

10M ago30:51

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Send us a text In this episode, I’m sharing a simple yet powerful strategy to respond when your neurodiverse kids are upset: “Feelings First.” This response may be simple, but it is not easy. It requires us to allow and accept our child’s emotions WITHOUT trying to solve or fix their pain. And when they are blaming us for that pain, it also require…

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Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:27:14

11M ago1:27:14

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Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the interpretation of a document that the US itself developed. Therefore, when pressure is placed on a specific legal precedent, the shallowness of its validity is revealed. Dr. Mónica A. Jiménez accomplishes t…

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REPOST: 5 Unspoken Rules Every Working Mom Should Rethink 21:08

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Send us a text This week we'd like to re-share the Unspoken Rules that keep working moms stuck in exhaustion and overwhelm. These rules are beliefs that have been ingrained in us by family and society since childhood. Often we aren't even consciously aware of them anymore, but we still follow them and they can have a lot of power over how we feel a…

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John Soluri, "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:19:25

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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalisation. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) by Dr. John Soluri upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesti…

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Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:02:51

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In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many have dubbed "crimmigration." Southern border enforcement still monopolizes the national immigration debate, but immigration enforcement has become common within the United States as well. While Immigrati…

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American Muslim Women on Campus 25:12

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A conversation with award-winning academic Dr. Shabana Mir discussing her book Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity (UNC Press, 2016) Interviewer: Sofia Rehman.By New Books Network

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Embracing Uniqueness: Lessons from Neurodiversity and Pandemic Puppies 22:29

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Send us a text This week, I'm revisiting a popular episode from last year, along with fresh insights from a recent neurodiversity conference. The original episode ("Would You Rather be Unique or Normal?") was based on an eye-opening conversation with my child about our pandemic puppies. His unique perspective, shaped by autism spectrum disorder and…

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023) 51:04

12M ago51:04

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Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal edu…

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What Do I Need Here? (Self-Coaching Power Question) 26:30

12M ago26:30

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Send us a text Ever feel like traditional self-care advice just doesn't fit your neurodiverse needs? This episode is a must-listen as we rethink rigid self-care routines and focus on tuning into our body's signals to create a more personalized approach. By understanding and honoring our unique needs, we can break negative cycles and enhance our wel…

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Why ADHD is Underdiagnosed in Women (Neuro-Spicy Month) 30:08

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Send us a text It's Neuro-Spicy Month here at Rethink Your Rules! Today, Jenny gave a presentation about ADHD at a neurodiversity focused CME. So, we're revisiting some prior RYR episodes about ADHD. (Especially since they are the most downloaded episodes ever!) This week, we're taking a deep dive into the reasons many women - especially smart wome…

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How ADHD Presents in Physicians (Neuro-Spicy Month) 45:25

1y ago45:25

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Send us a text It's Neuro-Spicy Month here at Rethink Your Rules! Jenny's gearing up to present about ADHD at a CME about neurodiversity next month. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit some prior RYR episodes about ADHD. (Especially since they are the most downloaded episodes ever!) This week, we're going into detail about the signs and sy…

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My ADHD and Me (Neuro-Spicy Month) 51:41

1y ago51:41

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Send us a text It's Neuro-Spicy Month here at Rethink Your Rules! Jenny's gearing up to present about ADHD at a CME about neurodiversity next month. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit some prior RYR episodes about ADHD. (Especially since they are the most downloaded episodes ever!) This week, hear how Jenny's later-in-life ADHD diagnosis …

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Omar Valerio-Jiménez, "Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:11:26

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Omar Valerio-Jiménez's book Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship (UNC Press, 2024) analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the nation, Mexican Americans were offered US citizensh…

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