“Don’t let the elbow patches fool you, I watch a lot of television”: Dennis the Hot Dog King, #FergusonSyllabus, and franchise culture in Black America with Dr. Marcia Chatelain

In which the Historians discuss the ways that elite reality stars think about money, learn about the #FergusonSyllabus, interrogate the ways that Bravo discusses issues pertaining to race and racism in America, converse over Bethenny Frankel’s disaster relief work, learn about how people indicate their social class based on their consumption patterns, think critically about the connections between Dennis the Hot Dog King of Atlanta and the intersection of post-1968 civil rights struggle and the rise of the fast food industry, and converse about Tamara’s confrontation with her son Ryan over his support for Trump and The Wall.

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Episode 4: “When in Doubt, Take a Page from One of My Books”: #HonH Year Zero, Book Publishing, and the Apology Economy w/ Dawn Durante

In which the Historians talk about the #HonH origin story, conferences, speculate about who isn’t Andy Cohen’s favorite housewife, the Suffrage Centennial, learn about what goes into making books, gab about Housewives’ product lines, and Dawn educates the Historians about the Housewives’ “apology economy.”

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