In Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality, Deborah N. Archer reveals how America’s transportation infrastructure – highways, roads, bus routes, even sidewalks – became tools to sustain segregation after Jim Crow. From multilane roads blocking access to white neighborhoods to suburbs designed to exclude, Archer traces a hidden architecture of inequality while offering a vision for a just system. Joining Archer in conversation is Oscar Corral, documentary filmmaker and co-director and co-producer of INTERSTATE.…

In The River’s Daughter: A Memoir, leading whitewater guide Bridget Crocker traces her journey from a turbulent childhood in Wyoming after her parents’ divorce to rafting some of the world’s fiercest rivers. Amid danger, loss, and betrayal, the river becomes her teacher, showing her the possibilities of transformation through nature. In Trauma Plot: A Life, Jamie Hood tells the story of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage it leaves behind. Hood invokes infamous figures,…