{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Anastasia Curwood on her new biography of Shirley Chisholm","description":"This week, Jen’s guest on Booked Up is Anastasia Curwood. They discuss her insightful new biography Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics. As you likely know, in 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress and in 1972, the first Black major party presidential candidate.\n\nAnastasia Curwood is a beloved and brilliant professor at University of Kentucky and Interim Chair of the History Department. She also serves as director of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at UK.  Her scholarship focuses on the interface between private life and historical context for black Americans in the twentieth century. Her first book called Stormy Weather focused on marriages between middle-class African Americans between the two world wars.\n\nContact Booked Up:\n\nYou can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM (mailto:BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM) or by writing to:\n\nBOOKED UP\nP.O. BOX 147\nNORTHAMPTON, MA 01061\n\nGet More from Anastasia Curwood\nTwitter (https://twitter.com/CurwoodA) | Website (https://history.as.uky.edu/users/accu226) | Author of SHIRLEY CHISHOLM and STORMY WEATHER (https://uncpress.org/author/6653-anastasia-c-curwood/)\n\nGet More from Jen Taub:\nTwitter (https://twitter.com/jentaub) | Follow the Money Substack (https://jentaub.substack.com/) | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623034/big-dirty-money-by-jennifer-taub/)","author_name":"Booked Up with Jen Taub","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5089525-booked-up-with-jen-taub","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/39743814/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}