Mon 5.25.09| Asian Protagonists

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Fred Ho & Bill Mullen, eds., Afro Asia Duke U. Press, 2008

Diane Fujino, Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama U. of Minnesota Press, 2005

According to Diane Fujino, the Black liberation movement of the 1960s played a key role in radicalizing many Asian Americans, including Yuri Kochiyama, who found a mentor in Malcolm X, and Richard Aoki, a prominent early member of the Black Panthers. Novelist Nina Revoyr takes another angle on the Japanese experience in the US; The Age of Dreaming is about a Japanese silent film star in Hollywood. (Encore presentation.)

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Wed 4.22.09| Founding Parents?

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Clarence Walker, Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings U. of Virginia Press, 2009

What happens to the mythology surrounding this nation's origins if Thomas Jefferson had a long-term liaison with his slave Sally Hemings, and fathered one or more of her children? Clarence Walker argues that a very different understanding of America's racial origins and national identity is required.

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Mon 4.13.09| Clear About Imperialism?

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Pacifica Radio Archives

A number of important thinkers advanced critiques of imperialism in the early twentieth century. According to Radhika Desai, it's impossible to accurately assess the imperialism of today without drawing upon those earlier critiques, and without understanding the role played by nation-states. Also featured on the program is archived audio of Fannie Lou Hamer speaking in 1965 and 1969.

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Mon 4.06.09| Crime, Protest, Neoliberalism

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Pamela Oliver, "Repression and Crime Control" Mobilization

Patrick Bond, "End of Neoliberalism? Sorry, Not Yet" ZSpace

Are crime and political dissent mutually exclusive? Or is crime control connected to the control and repression of political movements? Pamela Oliver considers these questions in the context of the Black urban riots of the 1960s and the ongoing mass incarceration of African Americans. Also, Patrick Bond comments on the global economic strategy announced at last week's G-20 summit.

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Tues 3.17.09| What Reparations (Might) Mean

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Charles Henry, Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations NYU Press, 2007

Maybe you think the push for racial reparations is mainly, or solely, about money. What if it weren't? What if the demands of reparations advocates were taken seriously, in all their variety and complexity? Charles Henry recounts some key reparations struggles and suggests ways of achieving reparative justice.

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Wed 3.04.09| Racial Neoliberalism

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David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

If we are not in a postracial world where racism has ceased to exist, then what role does race in fact play in how people are viewed, branded, treated, and controlled? Race, according to David Theo Goldberg, has become to some extent invisibilized, and to a great extent privatized. His new book examines how the neoliberal state approaches and uses race, even as it claims to ignore it.