Episode 13: Dr. Lee Bebout on Translating the Liberal Arts into Jobs

Welcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree. This show is about the value of a liberal arts education. Jeff Crane, student of the liberal arts, environmental historian, and higher education administrator for the past 12 years, hosts a wide range of guests whose experiences as students of the liberal arts have shaped their lives in school, as professionals, and in their lives outside of their careers. Dr. Lee Bebout is on this week's show for an important and ever timely conversation about the humanities in relationship to false narratives and weaponized talking points. He discusses his love for English, his sometimes lukewarm feelings about literature and his experiences as a student and teacher, at many levels. A professor of English at Arizona State University, he is also an affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies and the Program in American Studies. His research focuses on the areas of Chicano Studies and Whiteness. His second book, "Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White" (NYU 2016), examines how representations of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans have been used to foster whiteness and Americanness, or more accurately whiteness as Americanness. Here are a few of the books that are mentioned in this episode: Fool's Crow by James Welch The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen Caste by Isabele Wilkerson Please subscribe to the show, rate and review! You can follow the show on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@jobliberalarts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. And follow Dr. Bebout @BeelzeBebout ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠ Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson