{"id":971,"date":"2020-06-23T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T03:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=971"},"modified":"2020-11-06T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:21:00","slug":"michael-ezra","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/speaker\/michael-ezra\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ezra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Ezra is a professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. He is the author of the book&nbsp;<em>Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon (2009)<\/em>&nbsp;and editor of the books<em>&nbsp;Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives (2009)&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>The Economic Civil Rights Movement: African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power.&nbsp;<\/em>Dr. Ezra is also the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed&nbsp;<em>Journal of Civil and Human Rights<\/em>&nbsp;and the co-editor, with Carlo Rotella, of the book<em>&nbsp;The Bittersweet Science (2017),<\/em>&nbsp;which was named one of the best sports books of the year by the<em>&nbsp;Boston Globe.<\/em>&nbsp;Professor Ezra teaches courses in recent African American history and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":972,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-971","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University","speaker_last_name":"Ezra","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/971\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}