In a new “race report” from the UK there is this statement in the report’s forward written by the chair of the commission. The ‘Making of Modern Britain’ teaching resource is our response to negative…
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Souls in Translation
Souls in Translation by Paul Buhle Audio Recording (46:09) – read by Doug Storm and Shana Ritter. History, the telling of it, is storytelling. These are voices I heard, the stories I heard, in my…
Good Listening for Afternoon Dog Walks: Interchange Recommendations
A friend (flesh and blood, not Facebook) told me she’d listened to the recent Interchange shows on The Tempest and on Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, really liked them, and wanted recommendations for shows in…
It Spiralizes – Interchange Echoes
When I “make” an Interchange program I create analogizing echoes inside and outside of the show. An example. The last show with author Maggie Doherty was about her book The Equivalents. During the Interview Doherty…
“The Planter” and Poor Whites – Habituated to Harm
The photo that illustrates this post is of a lynching in Excelsior Springs, Missouri in 1925, ten years before Du Bois’ published Black Reconstruction in America. I think it’s important to see these pictures of…
Reading Black Reconstruction: The True System
Today’s walk lasted approximately 40 minutes so I could listen to all of Chapter 2 of Black Reconstruction in America, “The White Worker.” What follows is just where my mind took me upon contemplation. Property…
Revealed for Our Sins
The previous post on a “squib” of Baudelaire’s was actually not what I had intended to write. Rather, it was a redheaded beggar girl I meant to display. That is, I had been reading Keith…
Luis Buñuel’s The Young One: Anatomy of White Male Supremacy (WFHB’s Interchange)
AUDIO: Luis Buñuel’s The Young One: Anatomy of White Male Supremacy We open with the jazz tune, “Epistrophy,” from Eric Dolphy’s Last Date recorded in Holland in 1964. Epistrophe, from the Greek, means “a turning about” –…
WFHB’s Interchange – A Targeted Divide: What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives
AUDIO: What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives This is the special 90-minute finale for our series A Targeted Divide. It’s called “What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives: Structural Violence, Firearms, and Surviving Gunshot…