HeyJaredUnpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.
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Episode 118 – Bad Vibes at the Supreme Court with Leah Litman (opens the original)
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Leah Litman discusses her book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes. In it, she argues that the Supreme Court is no longer practicing law. Rather, it’s running on vibes. And by “vibes,” Litman means legal-ish claims that repackage the politics of conservative grievance and minority rule. Leah […]
Episode 117 – National Guard, ICE, and American Cities with Scott R. Anderson (opens the original)
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After months of National Guard and ICE deployment around the U.S., questions remain about what these domestic deployments mean, under what legal authority are they happening and what have the lower Courts said about these issues, Scott R. Anderson details all the different aspects of these questions and more. Anderson outlines the complicated legal ways […]
Episode 116 – Africa, India, and the Making of Race with Shobana Shankar (opens the original)
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Shobana Shankar discusses her book, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race. Prof. Shankar explains how Africans and Indians make and unmake their differences. While decolonization brought Africans and Indians together to challenge Euro-American style white supremacy, discord over caste, religion, sex and skin color simmered beneath the rhetoric of Afro-Asian solidarity. […]
Episode 115 – Why Everyone Hates White Liberals with Kevin M Schultz (opens the original)
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Kevin M. Schultz discusses his book Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals). In it Schultz lays out some of the objections to liberals—ineffective, spineless, judgmental, authoritarian—placing these objections in a historical frame. It turns out that how one defines a “white liberal” is less a reflection of reality and more a Rorschach test […]
Episode 114 – Modern Yoga and the Far Right with Stewart Home (opens the original)
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Stewart Home discusses his book, Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremist, and the New Order in Wellness. Home sweeps away the half-truths of Western yoga to expose a world full of grifters, cult leaders, TV celebrities and fake gurus, the story of yoga has involved some of the strangest currents of humanity. Stewart Home is […]
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