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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly Suggested Reading Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72 Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935) Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970) Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112. Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & practice: Gender, race, & class,”Socialism & Democracy 17 (2003),109-122 Carole Boyce Davies,Left of Karl Marx:The Political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones,(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007) ____,”Sisters Outside:Tracing the Caribbean/Black Intellectual Tradition,”Small Axe 28 (2009),217-228 ____,Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment,(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher,Inc.,2011) Combahee River Collective,“The Combahee River Collective Statement,” in Homegirls:A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith,(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1983),264-269 Dayo F. Gore et al.,eds.,Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle,(New York: New York University Press,2009) ____,Radicalism at The Crossroads:African American Activists in the Cold War,(New York: New York University Press,2011); Cheryl Higashida, Black International Feminism:Women Writers of the Black Left,1945-1995 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011) Gerald Horne,Race Woman:The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois, (New York: New York University Press,2000) Buzz Johnson,“I Think of My Mother”:Notes on the Life & Times of Claudia Jones,(London: Karia Press,1985) Erik McDuffie, “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’:Sojourning for Truth,Justice, & Civil Rights during the Early Cold War,”Radical History Review 101 (2008),81-106 ____, “‘I wanted a Communist philosophy,but I wanted us to have a change to organize our people’:The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore & the origins of black power,” African & Black Diaspora 3 (2010),181-195 ____,Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism,(Durham:Duke University Press,2011). ____,“‘For full freedom of… colored women in Africa,Asia,& in these United States…’: Black Women Radicals & the Practice of a Black Women’s International,”Palimpsest 1 (2012),1-30 Louise Thompson Patterson,“Toward a Brighter Dawn,”Woman Today,April 1936 Rhoda Reddock,“Radical Caribbean social thought:Race,class identity & the postcolonial nation,”Current Sociology 62 (2014),493-511 Marika Sherwood,Claudia Jones:A Life in Exile,(London: Lawrence & Wishart,1999) Ula Taylor,“‘Reading Men & Nations’: Women in the Black Radical Tradition,”Souls 1 (1999),72-80 ____,The Veiled Garvey:The Life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey,(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2002) Stephen Ward,“The Third World Women’s Alliance:Black Feminist Radicalism & Black Power Politics,”in The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights- Black Power Era edited by Peniel E. Joseph,199-144,(New York: Routledge,2006) Mary Helen Washington,“Alice Childress,Loraine Hansberry, & Claudia Jones Write the Popular Front,”in Left of the Color Line:Race,Radicalism, & Twentieth Century Literature of the United Stated edited by Bill V. Mullen & James Smethurst,183-204,(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2003) For the full list, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-pocket-5-w-16178909 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Twitter: @LeftPOC Patreon: patreon.com/leftpoc

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/ Sangeetha Sudharshan (@sansdn) music: "Hot Mess" by Logophilia

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ guest Lauren Lefty Intro music: "Mastica, Chupa y Jala" by Ghetto Brothers Outro music: "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" by Ghetto Brothers (music & suggested reading list by Lauren Lefty) --- Suggested Reading Academic Literature on Puerto Rico and its Diaspora: Lorrin Thomas. Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City Virginia Sánchez Korrol. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City Andrés Torres and José E. Velasquez, eds.. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora Sonia Song-Ha Lee. Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City Carlos Alamo-Pastrano. Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States Solsiree del Moral. Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico Nelson Denis. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. "Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón: The Young Lords, Black Power and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972," CENTRO Journal 18:1 (Fall 20016): 149-169. Radical History Review issue: “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in a Postcolonial World?”: http://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/features/puerto-rico-a-us-colony-in-a-postcolonial-world/ Jones Act: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jones-act-20170927-story.html Education (General): And privatization/neoliberalism (recent): https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/education-privatization-charters-public-schools-betsy-devos Podcast about Ed in the Time of Trump/Neoliberalism: https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast Puerto Rican Education Activism in NYC Anthony DeJesus and Madeline Perez, “From Community Control to Consent Decree: Puerto Ricans Organizing for Education and Language Rights in the 1960s and 70s NYC,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 7-31. Lillian Jimenez, “Puerto Ricans and Educational Civil Rights: A History of the 1969 City College Takeover,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 159-175. Lauren Lefty, "Evelina's Harlem: A Puerto Rican Educational Journey Through Space and Time," Columbia Teachers College Educating Harlem Project, http://educatingharlem.cdrs.columbia.edu/omeka/neatline/show/evelinas-harlem Debt crisis and school closures/austerity: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/hedge-funds-puerto-rico-close-schools-fire-teachers-pay-us-back Post-hurricane schools situation: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ewa-radio-115287/episodes/after-the-storms-uncertain-fut-22103781 Whitefish Contract Scandal: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-governor-says-contract-to-whitefish-company-should-be-canceled/2017/10/29/e5336cda-bcb8-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.6fe582ec606a Ed and gentrification in NYC/El Barrio: http://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/ujju-aggarwal-edwin-mayorga-from-forgotten-to-fought-over-neoliberal-restructuring-public-schools-and-urban-space/ https://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/2016/11/18/a-master-plan-for-gentrifying-el-barrio-nyc/ Debt/Austerity: PR Syllabus: https://puertoricosyllabus.com/ Austerity Post-María: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/puerto-rico-natural-disaster-hurricane-maria https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/31/san_juan_mayor_carmen_cruz_on UPR Strike: https://www.thenation.com/article/students-are-now-leading-the-resistance-to-austerity-in-puerto-rico/

Left POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta) Resources regarding this episode: “Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016) http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/ “Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017) http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problem History of Zimbabwe: Alois Mlambo https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlambo Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Sabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ASabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni Terence Ranger https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=terence+ranger+zimbabwe&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aterence+ranger+zimbabwe Simukai Chigudu (on cholera) https://oxford.academia.edu/SimukaiChigudu Additional suggested reading: Elizabeth Schmidt https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Intervention-Approaches-African-History-ebook/dp/B00B4V6IPU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512297774&sr=1-1&keywords=elizabeth+schmidt Nick Turse https://www.nickturse.com/ Abayomi Azikiwe https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=abayomi+azikiwe&sprefix=abayomi+azikiw%2Caps%2C156&crid=2MBB8G755GGE Walter Rodney https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=walter+rodney --- Music: “Kizomba” by Buraka Som Sistema Follow the Left POCket Project on Twitter: @leftpoc Follow the Left POCket Project on Facebook: www.facebook.com/leftpoc Support the Left POCket Project on Patreon: www.patreon.com/leftpoc

Left POCket Project - Episode 1 - Introduction Music: "Thinking Back" by Kraak & Smaak Follow the Left POCket Project on Twitter: @leftpoc Follow the Left POCket Project on Facebook: www.facebook.com/leftpoc Support the Left POCket Project on Patreon: www.patreon.com/leftpoc