{"id":165812,"date":"2020-10-30T07:09:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=165812"},"modified":"2022-06-22T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:28:14","slug":"brave-space-manisha-sinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/10\/brave-space-manisha-sinha\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Space: Manisha Sinha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-American with an academic specialty in U.S. slavery, Manisha Sinha\u2019s perspective on current events has been in high demand lately. In recent weeks, she\u2019s had pages and posts in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>The Nation<\/em>, CNN, and NPR to name a few. UConn\u2019s James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History, Sinha gained notice when her book \u201cThe Slave\u2019s Cause: A History of Abolition\u201d won numerous awards including the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest installment of the Brave Space podcast series, Lisa Stiepock talks with Sinha about women\u2019s roles in India, how students have changed since she began teaching, and what it means to her to see a Black woman of Indian descent as the vice presidential candidate of a major party in this country.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-165812-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sinha-UT.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sinha-UT.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/sinha-UT.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Brave Space series, historian Manisha Sinha reflects on her background and life experiences and the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":144900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2141,2235,2225],"tags":[2236,2250],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-165812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-podcast","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-storrs","tag-college-of-liberal-arts-sciences","tag-humanities-and-social-sciences","series-bravespace"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:25:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165815,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165812\/revisions\/165815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/144900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165812"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=165812"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=165812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}