I’ve combined snippets from a Mike Wallace interview with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus with Charles Mingus’ classic “Original Faubus Fables” (Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus). Enjoy! Faubus On Faubus
Posts tagged racism
Standard Operating Procedure for Nationalist Racism
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…
Interchange – Roll Jim Crow: The Racial Project of the American Tobacco Company
AUDIO LINK Our opening song is “Lucky Day.” This is Judy Garland’s version from the London sessions of 1960. The first performance of the song was by Harry Richman in a 1926 Broadway revue. “Lucky…
“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…
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” –…
Serving the Word
It might have been but a deception of the vapours, but, the longer the stranger was watched, the more singular appeared her manoeuvres. “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville In a recent scholarly biography of Louis…
Clare’s Advice: Sink the Pequod!
Okay, so this might be a tad petty, but well, so what? On August 17th, Clare Spark of the blog YDS: The Clare Spark Blog, posted her incisive thoughts on “race relations” with the Ferguson,…
The Custom House: Louis Agassiz with Christoph Irmscher
Episode 2 is now available for download: Agassiz, Inc. Please share far and wide, early and often. Thanks! This week I speak with biographer Christoph Irmscher about the legacy of Louis Agassiz, one of the…
The Seeming Banality
Besides, this Bland, the master-at-arms, was no vulgar, dirty knave. In him—to modify Burke’s phrase—vice seemed, but only seemed, to lose half its seeming evil by losing all its apparent grossness. (Melville, White Jacket) No doubt…