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June 9, 2016

The Creation of "Black Gods of the Asphalt"

Read an excerpt from an interview of Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL, by Matthew Reed Baker. The interview originally appeared in Boston Magazine.

June 8, 2016

Listen to Onaje X. O. Woodbine on All Things Considered

Listen to a fantastic interview with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL, on NPR’s All Things Considered.

June 7, 2016

Introducing Black Gods of the Asphalt

Read an excerpt from the introduction to BLACK GODS OF THE ASPHALT: RELIGION, HIP-HOP, AND STREET BASKETBALL, by Onaje X. O. Woodbine.

March 9, 2016

Interview with Hyun Ok Park, author of The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea

Read an interview with Hyun Ok Park, author of THE CAPITALIST UNCONSCIOUS: FROM KOREAN UNIFICATION TO TRANSNATIONAL KOREA.

November 6, 2015

Themes from The Con Men

Read a guest post from Trevor B. Milton, coauthor of THE CON MEN: HUSTLING IN NEW YORK CITY, about some of the key threads that tie the book’s many stories together.

November 5, 2015

Cop Cons

Read an excerpt from the introduction to Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton’s THE CON MEN: HUSTLING IN NEW YORK CITY, in which Milton discusses “cop cons” with a former police officer.”

November 4, 2015

The Con Game

Read a guest post from Terry Williams, coauthor of THE CON MEN: HUSTLING IN NEW YORK CITY, about how he was conned as a young student in NYC, and how that experience prompted him to study con games academically.

November 3, 2015

Con Artists and Hustlers

Read an excerpt from the introduction to Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton’s THE CON MEN: HUSTLING IN NEW YORK CITY, in which Williams and Milton delve into what a con artist actually is and does.

January 13, 2015

Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror

Read an excerpt from “Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror,” the first chapter of MENTAL HEALTH IN THE WAR ON TERROR, by Neil Krishan Aggarwal.

October 10, 2014

Interview with Amrita Pande, author of Wombs in Labor

Read an interview with Amrita Pande, author of Wombs in Labor, in which she discusses surrogacy, India, and free trade surrogacy.

July 23, 2014

Pierre Bourdieu's Photographs of Algeria

In today’s post, we are re-posting some of the photographs from Picturing Algeria (now available in paper). The extraordinary photographs were taken during the years of 1957-1960 when Bourdieu was working there as a university lecturer. Taken during the Algerian...

July 17, 2014