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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.

Guest: Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese- American author. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations.  He is the author of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize The Sympathizer.  He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees, the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance. His latest fiction is The Committed.   The post Viet Thanh Nguyen on Anti-Asian Crime, Colonialism, & his Latest Fiction, The Committed appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Alice L. Baumgartner is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. The post Go South: Mexico and the Abolition of Slavery appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ernest Freeberg is a distinguished professor of humanities and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of three award-winning books, including The Age of Edison. His latest, A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement.    The post Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement appeared first on KPFA.

Part I – Protecting the Right to Organize Act Guest:  Sylvia Allegretto is a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley (CWED). CWED is a research center housed at the Institute for Researcher on Labor and Employment. Part II – A New Biden’s Presidency on Foreign Policy Guest: Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She is the author of ten books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection. Her most recent book, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is part of a campaign to prevent a war with Iran and instead promote normal trade and diplomatic relations.   Featured Image: History in HD on Unsplash The post Medea Benjamin on Biden’s Foreign Policy & The Right to Organize   appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Bruce Levine is the bestselling author of four books on the Civil War era, including The Fall of the House of Dixie and Confederate Emancipation, which received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and was named one of the top ten works of nonfiction of its year by The Washington Post. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois. The post Thaddeus Stevens: Leader of the Radical Republicans appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Adam Jentleson is the Executive Director of Battle Born Collective and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid.  He is a columnist for GQ and the author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.     Featured photo: Harold Mendoza via Unsplash The post The History of the Filibuster appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1 – The American Recovery Act Guest: Robert Kuttner is the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of several books including his latest, The Stakes 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy.   Part 2 – The Rise and Fall of Soul City Guest: Thomas Healy is a professor at Seton Hall Law School. He is the author of The Great Dissent, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.  His latest book is Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia.             The post The Rise & Fall of Soul City & Robert Kuttner on the Stimulus Bill appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Lyndall Gordon is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a senior research fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and an award-winning biographer.  She is the author of several books including Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World.  The post Wollstonecraft and Shelley: The Mother-Daughter Feminist Duo of the Nineteen Century appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Eric Rauchway is a distinguished historian and expert on the Progressive and New Deal eras at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of several acclaimed books on the subject, including The Money Makers, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and his latest, Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal   The post The Ideas that Shaped the Divisive Politics in Twentieth Century America appeared first on KPFA.