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Manifesto!

Episode 18: Omni-Americans and Unlearning Race

Oct 16, 2019
02:33:33

Jake and Phil are joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans and Thomas’ new memoir, Self-Portrait in Black and White

Manifesto:
Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543160/the-omni-americans-by-albert-murray--with-a-foreword-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/

Art:
Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617884/self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-williams/9780393608861

References:

Stanley Crouch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Crouch

Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, Trading Twelves
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46140/trading-twelves-by-edited-by-albert-murray-and-john-f-callahan-preface-by-albert-murray-introduction-by-john-f-callahan/

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/46131/

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4666

James Baldwin, Everybody’s Protest Novel
http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf

Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/stomping-the-blues

Thomas Chatterton Williams, A Blues for Albert Murray
https://www.thenation.com/article/blues-for-murray/

Reverend Eugene Rivers, On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack
http://bostonreview.net/reverend-eugene-rivers-on-the-responsiblity-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-crack

Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/193550/the-radicalism-of-the-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood/

The William and Mary Quarterly, Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Revolution? A Discussion of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i348499

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black mericans have fought to make them true.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/

Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46135/shadow-and-act-by-ralph-ellison/

Coleman Hughes, The Case for Black Optimism
https://quillette.com/2019/09/28/the-case-for-black-optimism/

Coleman Hughes, Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism
https://quillette.com/2018/04/24/kanye-west-future-black-conservatism/

Zadie Smith, Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/

The Glenn Show, Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap with Glenn Loury and Coleman Hughes
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/black-american-culture-racial-wealth-gap-glenn-loury/id505824976?i=1000444070055

The Fifth Column Podcast, On Anti-Racism with Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Kmele Foster
http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121

Tobi Haslett, Irrational Man
https://www.bookforum.com/print/2603/thomas-chatterton-williams-s-confused-argument-for-a-post-racial-society-23610

Ralph Ellison, “The Novel as a Function of American Democracy”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/

Zadie Smith, Getting In and Getting Out
https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/getting-in-and-out/

Corey D. Fields, Black Elephants in the Room
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520291904/black-elephants-in-the-room

Ralph Ellison, “Brave Words for A Startling Occasion”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/

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