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Guest: Robert Elder, professor of history at Baylor University. Author of the book Calhoun: American Heretic. The post John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy appeared first on KPFA.

Part I – Border Outsourcing, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Guest: Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. Her latest book is Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Part II – The White Power Movement  Guest: Kathleen Belew is a historian, author, and teacher. She is the author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. The post Border Outsourcing and the Rise of Racist Nationalism & A History of the White Power Movement  appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast The Political Scene. The post The Agitators: Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright & Frances Seward appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana. Photo credit: Atlanta History Center, Sep 11, 2020   The post Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog: A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, produced by Paredon Records in 1973, and 120,000 Stories, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2021. Her memoir Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution will be released in June this year.   The post Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Director of Research at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the author of numerous books, his latest is The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles.  Professor Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 50 years. Follow him on twitter: @profdavidharvey   The post David Harvey on a History of Neoliberalism and the Current Economic Crisis appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Pamela Haag is an award-winning nonfiction writer, essayist, cultural commentator, and historian. She has written several books including The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. The post A History of the American Gun Industry appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1 – The Return of the Mass Shootings Guest: Patrick Blanchfield is a writer and journalist who writes about gun violence, trauma, and masculinity. He is also an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His book, Gunpower: The Structure of American Violence, will be released by Verso Books this coming winter.   Part 2 – A Pandemic of Two Tales & Funeral Diva Guest: Pamela Sneed is award winning writer, poet, and performer.  She is the author of Sweet Dreams, Kong, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, and most lately, Funeral Diva.  She is online faculty at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute teaching Human Rights and Writing Art.  Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Nikki Giovanni’s, The 100 Best African American Poems.  She has performed at the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Poetry Project, NYU and Pratt Universities, Smack Mellon Gallery, The High Line, Performa, Danspace, The Bessies, Performance Space, Joe’s Pub, The Public Theater, SMFA, and BRIC. The post The Return of Mass Shootings in America & Funeral Diva appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1 – Access to the Ballot Box Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is the Editor and Chief Correspondent for Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Part 2 – Immigration at the Border Guest: Catherine Tactaquin, policy expert and analyst on immigration. She is the former director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.   Photo by Max Böhme on Unsplash The post Access to the Ballot Box & Immigration at the Border appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. She is the author of The Hypersexuality of Race (2007), Straitjacket Sexualities (2012) and her latest, The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global Cinema.Her films include The Celine Archive (2019), The Fact of Asian Women (2004) and Birthright: Mothering Across Difference (2009). The post The Depiction of Asian Women in Film and Theater appeared first on KPFA.