NBN Book of the Day

Marshall Poe

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France

Democracy

Nationalism

Parenting

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Concept Albums

Emotional Economy

North African Migrants

European Art Market

First World War

Anti-Colonialism

United States

Fernando

Rust Belt

Race

French Colonialism

Immanuel Kant

Plato

Basketball

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Ian J. McNiven, "Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals" (UP Florida, 2026)

Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals (UP Florida, 2026), published by University Press of Florida (2026), offers a global perspective on maritime cultures, examining how societies across time and space have understood and in... more

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Khiara Bridges, "Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans" (MIT Press, 2026)

An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.

From a leading expert on race, class, maternal health, and reproductive rights.

Racism in... more

19 Jul 2026 • 47 min

Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)

We use avatars to play video games. We use pseudonyms on social

media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital

realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wish

to hide, experiment, and deceive. But w... more

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Rory Cormac, "Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line (Oxford UP, 2026) reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks running Britain's Cold War forgery empire. Their secret mission was audacious: to disrupt and discredit ... more

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Khiara M. Bridges

Author of Expecting Inequity, Professor of Public Law and Sociocultural Anthropology

UC Berkeley School of Law

Episode: Khiara Bridges, "Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans" (MIT Press, 2026)

Hector Amaya

Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

Episode: Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)

Rory Cormac

Professor of International Relations, author of Fakers, A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line

University of Nottingham

Episode: Rory Cormac, "Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front Line" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Gayle Wald

Author of This Is Rhythm, Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement

University of Chicago Press (book publisher)

Episode: Gayle F. Wald, "This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Soraya Murray

Professor in Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz - Film and Digital Media

Episode: Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026)

Rod Phillips

Professor and author

Johns Hopkins University Press

Episode: Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Diana Cucuz

Author of Winning Women's Hearts and Minds, Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR

University of Toronto Press (publisher)

Episode: Diana Cucuz, "Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

Cécile Bishop

Author of Forms of Blackness, Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World

University of Oxford

Episode: Cécile Bishop, "Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World" (Duke UP, 2026)

Ali Fard

Author, Grounding the Cloud

University of Virginia

Episode: Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

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Perfect for Long Walks,Each interview is so thought-provoking. I want to read every book.

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Khiara Bridges, "Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans" (MIT Press, 2026)

Q: What surprised you when shifting focus from a public hospital to a well-resourced clinic for privileged patients?

She notes that racial disparities persist even in elite settings and that patient experiences of care are still shaped by race, though driven by different forms of institutional attention and customer service culture.

Khiara Bridges, "Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans" (MIT Press, 2026)

Q: Could you tell the audience about your research methods for this book?

The guest explains ethnographic fieldwork in a well-resourced hospital, using participant observation for two years plus in-depth interviews with patients, obstetricians, and administrators to examine how race and class shape care and outcomes.

Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)

Q: How do you see future research directions in identity and anonymity?

He envisions expanding identity theory to incorporate indexical dissociation and the subaltern, exploring metamodernism, posthumanism, the Anthropocene, and late-stage capitalism as frameworks for futures.

Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)

Q: Why is the concept of the economy of anonymity important for understanding power in the age of identification?

The economy of anonymity is a systemic way to examine who can dissociate from identifiers, under what conditions, and with what effects, highlighting how power operates through both facilitating and erasing anonymity in different contexts.

Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)

Q: Can you tell us a bit before we start about your background and your training?

Amaya sketches his immigrant background, multilingual education, and cross-border scholarly training, framing his approach to anonymity as grounded in lived experience and Latin American intellectual traditions.

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