The US and Kenya: Interview with Gerald Horne
April 21 2010
Gerald Horne is the author of numerous books including Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese attack on the British Empire, Cold War in a Hot Zone, The White Pacific, Fire This Time, Blows Against the Empire, and The Deepest South. His most recent is a study of the impact of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya on US foreign and domestic policy.
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McCarthyism in American History
April 23 2010
On this episode we play our recent interview with authors Clarence Lang and Robbie Lieberman, editors of a new book titled Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement.
Can Capitalism Last?
April 23 2010
Interview with author Daniel Rubin about his new book "Can Capitalism Last?". Discussion of the economic crisis, Marxism, socialism and other hot topics.
Billy Bragg Keeps Faith
April 23 2010
On this special episode we interview singer/songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg about his new album Mr. Love and Justice (Anti Records).
Labor History vs. the Cold War
June 2 2010
On this episode we talk with Political Affairs contributing editor Ben Sears about his new book, Generation of Resistance: The Electrical Unions and the Cold War, out now in paperback at Amazon.com.
Property, Nation, and Citizen in Creek Society, an Interview with David Chang
August 9 2010
On this episode we play the first of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Some democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.
Imprisonment of African Americans a New Era of Jim Crow?, Part 2
June 7 2010
On today's episode, we play the second part of our interview with author, lawyer, and ciivl rights activist Michelle Alexander whose new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness just came out from The New Press. So stay with us.
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U.S. Colonial Policies and Native Americans, Interview with David Chang
August 9 2010
On this episode we play the second of a two-part interview with historian David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Some democratic ideas about property and multiculturalism have indigenous roots.
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Building Working-class Power from the Ground Up, an Interview with Amy Dean
October 13 2010
On this episode, Political Affairs unveils its new website this week, and we play our recent interview with author and activist Amy Dean, co-author of A New New Deal out this year from Cornell University Press.
Health Politics in Harlem, an Interview with Jamie J. Wilson
October 22 2010
On this episode we interview Professor Jamie J. Wilson, author of a fascinating new book titled Building a Healthy Black Harlem: Health Politics in Harlem, New York from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression, just out from Cambria Press, CambriaPress.com.
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