Episode 1109
The politics of work and hunger.
Jan 7 2020
What is detention replacing right now in the US economy? Federal money is being cut all over the place for education, for healthcare, general money given to states for a lot of different things. That money is being taken away at the same time as things like detention come to the fore as an opportunity.
Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon join us to discuss their new book, Immigration Detention, Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants from Pluto Press. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
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Dec 20 2019
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Chuck picks his 18 favorite books from the 100+ he read for the show this year:
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
DaMaris Hill / Interview
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Kellie Carter Jackson / Interview
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
Anna Merlan / Interview
Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo
Mithu Sanyal / Interview
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
Sophie Lewis / Interview
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela
Gerald Horne / Interview
Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism
Marquis Bey / Interview
How To Be An Antiracist
Ibram Kendi / Interview
Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging
Jodi Dean / Interview
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Corey Robin / Interview
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
Jenny Brown / Interview
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
Wendy Brown / Interview
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga Yamhatta Taylor / Interview
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago
Flint Taylor / Interview
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King / Interview