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  • Interchange – The Plantation On Fire: Yannick Marshall on Liberalism and Anti-Colonialism
    Our guest today is Yannick Marshall and as I find all his recent essays crystallizations of important truths about the US of A, I’ll let his words serve as an introduction to our conversation. This is from “The Racist’s Peace“:
    In the times when videos of Black people being killed fall out of the news cycle, Black people are killed with impunity. In the time when this president is in power, Black people are killed with impunity. In the time when this president is not in power, Black people are killed with impunity. In their “counter-looting”, Black people are killed with impunity. In their prisons, their hospitals, their streets, their police stations, Black people are killed with impunity.
    In their riots, Black people are killed with impunity.
    Their peace, their regular order is a place where Black people are killed with impunity.
    I do not wish them peace.
    Peace is never peaceful in a colony. The peace of the slave master is not the peace of the enslaved. The slave master finds placid the view of the masses of enslaved people working for him under the whip of the overseer. The enslaved finds peace in a plantation on fire.
    Our show today focuses primarily on Liberalism as another version of White Supremacy. It has always instructed the oppressed to “go slow” to any so-called radical demands like equality. And while Conservatism is a nightmare of activist White Nationalism it has been a Liberal world order that courts the dichotomy of the good cop/bad cop racket, offering protection to the wretched of the earth but never allowing escape from the exploitative and abusive imaginary of the liberal state.
    GUEST
    Yannick Marshall is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Knox College. He writes on police power, race, white settler culture, anti-blackness, nationalism and ideology, and indigeneity as anti-colonial anarchism before Anarchism.
    Discussed in Segment One: Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native by Patrick Wolfe
    RELATED by Yannick Marshall
    The American media is an arm of the police state
    “We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak
    An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History
    To loot a revolution
    There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism
    Re-shelve civil rights, we need something stronger today
    MUSIC
    “Colonial Mentality” by Fela Kuti
    “400 Years” by Bob Marley & the Wailers
    “Invasion” by Burning Spear
    “Fire” by Rhapsody featuring Moonchild
    1 hr
  • Interchange – The Plantation On Fire: Yannick Marshall on Liberalism and Anti-Colonialism
    Our guest today is Yannick Marshall and as I find all his recent essays crystallizations of important truths about the US of A, I’ll let his words serve as an introduction to our conversation. This is from "The Racist’s Peace":



    In the times when videos of Black people being killed fall out of the news cycle, Black people are killed with impunity. In the time when this president is in power, Black people are killed with impunity. In the time when this president is not in power, Black people are killed with impunity. In their "counter-looting", Black people are killed with impunity. In their prisons, their hospitals, their streets, their police stations, Black people are killed with impunity.

    In their riots, Black people are killed with impunity.

    Their peace, their regular order is a place where Black people are killed with impunity.

    I do not wish them peace.

    Peace is never peaceful in a colony. The peace of the slave master is not the peace of the enslaved. The slave master finds placid the view of the masses of enslaved people working for him under the whip of the overseer. The enslaved finds peace in a plantation on fire.




    Our show today focuses primarily on Liberalism as another version of White Supremacy. It has always instructed the oppressed to “go slow” to any so-called radical demands like equality. And while Conservatism is a nightmare of activist White Nationalism it has been a Liberal world order that courts the dichotomy of the good cop/bad cop racket, offering protection to the wretched of the earth but never allowing escape from the exploitative and abusive imaginary of the liberal state.

    GUEST
    Yannick Marshall is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Knox College. He writes on police power, race, white settler culture, anti-blackness, nationalism and ideology, and indigeneity as anti-colonial anarchism before Anarchism.

    Discussed in Segment One: Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native by Patrick Wolfe

    RELATED by Yannick Marshall
    The American media is an arm of the police state
    “We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak
    An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History
    To loot a revolution
    There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism
    Re-shelve civil rights, we need something stronger today

    MUSIC
    "Colonial Mentality" by Fela Kuti
    "400 Years" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
    "Invasion" by Burning Spear
    1 hr
  • Interchange – From Another Country: Bill Mullen on James Baldwin’s Revolutionary Life
    The title of our opening song, performed by Deacon Tom Jones, from the compilation album Mississippi Saints and Sinners, “If I Had My Way I’d Tear this Building Down,” serves as an epigraph to Baldwin’s 1972 masterpiece, the essay collection No Name in the Street, which features heavily in our program today.
    Born on August 2nd, 1924 in Harlem James Baldwin would light out for the Old World in 1948 moving to Paris, France with forty dollars in his pocket. This move was, according to today’s guest, an effort to reconcile what Baldwin called the ‘mystery’ of his sexuality. He later told an interviewer of his state of mind before leaving the U.S., “I no longer felt who I really was, whether I was really black or really white, really male or really female.”
    Joining us to discuss the arc of Baldwin’s witness, from Harlem and Greenwich Village, to Paris and Istanbul, is Bill Mullen, author of a new short biography from Pluto Press titled James Baldwin: Living in Fire.
    And as a witness Baldwin brings us closer to understanding multiple revolutions from the 1950s through the 1980s and on to our own moment – from the Free Cuba movement and anti-colonialism, to Black Power, Feminism and Gay and Lesbian liberation, as well as the continuing struggle against the occupying force that is the police. And how much of this can be tied to White Supremacy and Christianity, two extremely oppressive forces in the world.
    In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral aspect of his public attack of racism, sexism, homophobia, and more generally, the matrix of repressive American power both domestically and internationally.”
    We begin with Black Lives Matter as the impetus for Mullen finding his way back into the necessary work of James Baldwin.
    GUEST
    Bill Mullen is Professor of American Studies at Purdue University. He is co-editor with Ashley Dawson of Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities (Haymarket, 2015). He is the author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press, 2016).
    RELATED
    James Baldwin: A Revolutionary For Our Time by Bill V. Mullen
    James Baldwin: How to Cool It (Esquire)
    James Baldwin Was Right All Along by Raol Peck
    Huey P. Newton on gay, women’s liberation
    “Stagerlee Wonders” by James Baldwin
    The Wages of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Color Line (Interchange with Bill Mullen)
    MUSIC
    “If I Had My Way I’d Tear The Building Down” – Deacon Tom Jones
    “What’s Goin’ On?” – Marvin Gaye
    “Sweet Lorraine” – Nat King Cole
    “Go Tell it On the Mountain” – The Wailers
    CREDITS
    Producer & Host: Doug Storm
    Executive Producer: Kade Young
    1 hr
  • Interchange – From Another Country: Bill Mullen on James Baldwin’s Revolutionary Life
    The title of our opening song, performed by Deacon Tom Jones, from the compilation album Mississippi Saints and Sinners, “If I Had My Way I’d Tear this Building Down," serves as an epigraph to Baldwin’s 1972 masterpiece, the essay collection No Name in the Street, which features heavily in our program today.

    Born on August 2nd, 1924 in Harlem James Baldwin would light out for the Old World in 1948 moving to Paris, France with forty dollars in his pocket. This move was, according to today’s guest, an effort to reconcile what Baldwin called the ‘mystery’ of his sexuality. He later told an interviewer of his state of mind before leaving the U.S., "I no longer felt who I really was, whether I was really black or really white, really male or really female."

    Joining us to discuss the arc of Baldwin’s witness, from Harlem and Greenwich Village, to Paris and Istanbul, is Bill Mullen, author of a new short biography from Pluto Press titled James Baldwin: Living in Fire.

    And as a witness Baldwin brings us closer to understanding multiple revolutions from the 1950s through the 1980s and on to our own moment - from the Free Cuba movement and anti-colonialism, to Black Power, Feminism and Gay and Lesbian liberation, as well as the continuing struggle against the occupying force that is the police. And how much of this can be tied to White Supremacy and Christianity, two extremely oppressive forces in the world.

    In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is "a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral aspect of his public attack of racism, sexism, homophobia, and more generally, the matrix of repressive American power both domestically and internationally."

    We begin with Black Lives Matter as the impetus for Mullen finding his way back into the necessary work of James Baldwin.

    GUEST
    Bill Mullen is Professor of American Studies at Purdue University. He is co-editor with Ashley Dawson of Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities (Haymarket, 2015). He is the author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press, 2016).

    RELATED
    James Baldwin: A Revolutionary For Our Time by Bill V. Mullen
    James Baldwin: How to Cool It (Esquire)
    James Baldwin Was Right All Along by Raol Peck
    Huey P. Newton on gay, women’s liberation
    "Stagerlee Wonders" by James Baldwin
    The Wages of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Color Line (Interchange with Bill Mullen)

    MUSIC
    “If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down” - Deacon Tom Jones
    “What’s Goin’ On?” - Marvin Gaye
    "Sweet Lorraine" - Nat King Cole
    “Go Tell it On the Mountain” - The Wailers

    CREDITS
    Producer & Host: Doug Storm
    Executive Producer: Kade Young
    1 hr
  • Interchange – John Lewis and Necessary Trouble
    Civil-rights leader John Lewis died Friday, July 17th, at the age of 80.
    Today we’ll pay tribute to the life-work of Lewis by revisiting our September 2015 program “ “Necessary Trouble: A Graphic Example from John Lewis.” This is an edited version.
    Host and Producer Doug Storm interviews Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin about their work on the graphic novel trilogy of Lewis’s memories of his civil rights activism titled March.
    John Lewis was one of the “Big Six” leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. Lewis also served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia’s 5th congressional district from 1987 until his recent death.
    We’ll close the program with an audio selection from Lewis’s speech at the March on Washington. He was just 23 years old at the time. Medgar Evers had died in June of the same year at the age of 37; Malcolm X would die in February of 1965 at the age of 39. Martin Luther King, Jr. would die in 1968 at the age of 39.
    Our opening song is “Black, Brown and White” written in 1945 and performed by Big Bill Broonzy. Broonzy said that his protest song “is just about the way the working Negro is treated in this country on all jobs in the North, in the East and in the West, and you all know it’s true.”
    We discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series, March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. March: Book One spans Lewis’s youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Nashville Student Movement’s battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins. The memoir trilogy continues in March: Book Two, including the 1961 Freedom Rides and the legendary 1963 March on Washington.

    GUESTS
    Andrew Aydin is the Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Congressman Lewis in Washington, D.C. and co-author of MARCH (a trilogy).
    Nate Powell is a graphic novelist (and Bloomington resident) whose work includes March, the graphic novel autobiography of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero, You Don’t Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole (which won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel), The Silence Of Our Friends, and The Year Of The Beasts. His most recent book is Come Again.
    RELATED
    Teaching the Movement: The State Standards We Deserve
    Rep. John Lewis’ Speech at the 1963 March on Washington
    Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story
    MUSIC
    “Black, Brown and White” by Big Bill Broonzy
    “Mississippi Goddamn” by Nina Simone
    “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke
    “Original Faubus Fables” by Charles Mingus
    (“Backlash” by Nina Simone is used for program identification)
    CREDITS
    Producer: Doug Storm
    Host: Bradi Heaberlin
    Board Engineer: Jonathan Richardson
    Executive Producer: Kade Young
    1 hr
  • Interchange – John Lewis and Necessary Trouble
    Civil-rights leader John Lewis died Friday, July 17th, at the age of 80.

    Today we’ll pay tribute to the life-work of Lewis by revisiting our September 2015 program “ “Necessary Trouble: A Graphic Example from John Lewis.” This is an edited version.

    Host and Producer Doug Storm interviews Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin about their work on the graphic novel trilogy of Lewis’s memories of his civil rights activism titled March.

    John Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. Lewis also served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his recent death.

    We’ll close the program with an audio selection from Lewis’s speech at the March on Washington. He was just 23 years old at the time. Medgar Evers had died in June of the same year at the age of 37; Malcolm X would die in February of 1965 at the age of 39. Martin Luther King, Jr. would die in 1968 at the age of 39.

    Our opening song is “Black, Brown and White” written in 1945 and performed by Big Bill Broonzy. Broonzy said that his protest song "is just about the way the working Negro is treated in this country on all jobs in the North, in the East and in the West, and you all know it's true."

    We discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series, March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. March: Book One spans Lewis’s youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Nashville Student Movement’s battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins. The memoir trilogy continues in March: Book Two, including the 1961 Freedom Rides and the legendary 1963 March on Washington.

    GUESTS
    Andrew Aydin is the Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Congressman Lewis in Washington, D.C. and co-author of MARCH (a trilogy).

    Nate Powell is a graphic novelist (and Bloomington resident) whose work includes March, the graphic novel autobiography of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero, You Don’t Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole (which won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel), The Silence Of Our Friends, and The Year Of The Beasts. His most recent book is Come Again.

    RELATED
    Teaching the Movement: The State Standards We Deserve
    Rep. John Lewis’ Speech at the 1963 March on Washington
    Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story

    MUSIC
    “Black, Brown and White” by Big Bill Broonzy
    “Mississippi Goddamn” by Nina Simone
    “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke
    “Original Faubus Fables” by Charles Mingus
    ("Backlash" by Nina Simone is used for program identification)

    CREDITS
    Producer: Doug Storm
    Host: Bradi Heaberlin
    Board Engineer: Jonathan Richardson
    Executive Producer: Kade Young
    1 hr
  • Interchange – Against Moral Saints: Kristian Williams on George Orwell and Oscar Wilde
    Today we speak with anarchist author Kristian Williams about his interest in George Orwell and Oscar Wilde, seemingly quite disparate thinkers to attract one’s admiration. But it turns out that Williams isn’t the first anarchist to be interested in them.
    It also turns out that Orwell himself admired Wilde, writing in a letter to a friend that he’d always been “pro-Wilde.” Williams writes in his book of essays on Orwell, Between the Bullet and the Lie, that “It is a strange thing to hear from Orwell, given his disdain for ‘Nancy poets,’ ‘pious sodomites,’ and the ‘pansy left.’”
    But the Orwell that Williams discusses has much in common with Oscar Wilde, in particular the ways both saw aesthetics, ethics, and politics as often impossible to separate, and the necessary stance one must take against moral saints – absolutists making no room for actual human experience and expression. Both raise questions about the relationships between culture and politics, between utopian aspirations and practical programs, and between individualism, group identity, and class struggle.
    Oscar Wilde is remembered as a wit and a dandy, as a gay martyr, and as a brilliant writer, but his philosophical depth and political radicalism are often forgotten. In Williams’ new book Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde he locates Wilde in the tradition of left-wing anarchism, and argues that only when we take his politics seriously can we begin to understand the man, his life, and his work.
    Kristian Williams is also the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America and was on Interchange previously with segment host, Dan Young (see Related below).
    GUEST
    Kristian Williams is the author of several books, including Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, Between the Bullet and the Lie: Essays on Orwell, and Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde, all from AK Press.
    RELATED
    “Preserving Our Capacity to Act:” An Interview with Kristian Williams (Hard Crackers)
    Orwell and Resistance: Kristian Williams + Eric Laursen (YouTube)
    The Men Who Brought Political Radicalism to Oscar Wilde: On John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Nascent Anarchism of a Literary Icon by Kristian Williams
    The Soul of Man Under… Anarchism? by Kristian Williams
    Organized for Violence: The Police and You (Interchange with Kristian Williams as the first guest)
    MUSIC
    “Oscillate Wildly” – The Smiths
    “Between the Wars” – Billy Bragg
    “Mr. Love & Justice” – Billy Bragg
    “This Charming Man” – The Smiths
    “Vicar in a Tutu” – The Smiths
    CREDITS
    Producer & Host: Doug Storm
    Executive Producer: Kade Young
    1 hr
  • Interchange – Against Moral Saints: Kristian Williams on George Orwell and Oscar Wilde
    Today we speak with anarchist author Kristian Williams about his interest in George Orwell and Oscar Wilde, seemingly quite disparate thinkers to attract one’s admiration. But it turns out that Williams isn’t the first anarchist to be interested in them.

    It also turns out that Orwell himself admired Wilde, writing in a letter to a friend that he’d always been “pro-Wilde.” Williams writes in his book of essays on Orwell, Between the Bullet and the Lie, that “It is a strange thing to hear from Orwell, given his disdain for ‘Nancy poets,’ ‘pious sodomites,’ and the ‘pansy left.’”

    But the Orwell that Williams discusses has much in common with Oscar Wilde, in particular the ways both saw aesthetics, ethics, and politics as often impossible to separate, and the necessary stance one must take against moral saints - absolutists making no room for actual human experience and expression. Both raise questions about the relationships between culture and politics, between utopian aspirations and practical programs, and between individualism, group identity, and class struggle.

    Oscar Wilde is remembered as a wit and a dandy, as a gay martyr, and as a brilliant writer, but his philosophical depth and political radicalism are often forgotten. In Williams’ new book Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde he locates Wilde in the tradition of left-wing anarchism, and argues that only when we take his politics seriously can we begin to understand the man, his life, and his work.

    Kristian Williams is also the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America and was on Interchange previously with segment host, Dan Young (see Related below).

    GUEST
    Kristian Williams is the author of several books, including Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, Between the Bullet and the Lie: Essays on Orwell, and Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde, all from AK Press.

    RELATED
    “Preserving Our Capacity to Act:” An Interview with Kristian Williams (Hard Crackers)
    Orwell and Resistance: Kristian Williams + Eric Laursen (YouTube)
    The Men Who Brought Political Radicalism to Oscar Wilde: On John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Nascent Anarchism of a Literary Icon by Kristian Williams
    The Soul of Man Under... Anarchism? by Kristian Williams
    Organized for Violence: The Police and You (Interchange with Kristian Williams as the first guest)

    MUSIC
    "Oscillate Wildly" - The Smiths
    "Between the Wars" - Billy Bragg
    "Mr. Love & Justice" - Billy Bragg
    "This Charming Man" - The Smiths
    "Vicar in a Tutu" - The Smiths

    CREDITS
    Producer & Host: Doug Storm
    Executive Producer: Kade Young
    1 hr
  • Interchange – Bill Mullen on W. E. B. Du Bois and the Wages of Whiteness (2016)
    Think of it this way, W. E. B. Du Bois, born in February 1868, that’s 3 years after the end of the American Civil War, two years after Melville’s volume of Civil War poetry, Battle Pieces, died in August 1963, at 95, the year John F. Kennedy is assassinated, the year Medgar Evers is assassinated, and the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers possibly the most famous speech in American history at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (“I Have a Dream”).
    He straddles the more essential American Century, not demarcated by round numbers and whited school textbooks.  Du Bois’s life and work is the American history we absolutely relegate to a minor strand as befits the country’s relationship with African-Americans.
    SEGMENT ONE
    We confront the enormity of Du Bois’s life, spanning from the post-Civil War return of Jim Crow to his death in 1963 the day before MLK’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
    SEGMENT TWO
    We look at how Du Bois turned from sociologist to activist, and how his research in the South during the end of Reconstruction was the impetus that led to the founding of the NAACP. Then we move to the major turn in Du Bois’s thought–the second half of his life that gets less attention in the history books: socialism.
    SEGMENT THREE
    In our last segment, we’ll look at the work Du Bois did in anti-nuclear proliferation and advocacy for the Soviet Union and against the unfolding Cold War in the 1950’s, which attracted the attention of the powers-that-be in America. This eventually led to his de facto exile, with publishers blacklisting him and his passport being revoked. Finally we’ll turn to the lighter side of Du Bois – his fiction – and how he still speaks to our times from a half-century ago, in his advocacy for universal healthcare and his disaffection for the so-called right to vote between two corporate-captured political parties.
    GUEST
    Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue. His books include W. E. B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press, 2016), a political biography of W.E.B. Du Bois entitled Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution (Temple University Press, 2015), Afro-Orientalism (Minnesota, 2004) a study of interethnic anti-racist alliance between Asian and African Americans, and Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics 1935-1946 (University of Illinois, 1999). He is faculty adviser to Students for Justice in Palestine at Purdue.
    RELATED
    The Life of W. E. B. Du Bois and Black Lives Matter by Bill Mullen
    Audio of “Socialism and the American Negro” by Du Bois (1960 speech sponsored by the Wisconsin Socialist Club): Part One and Part Two
    We Charge Genocide (1951)
    W.E.B. Du Bois’s ‘Darkwater’: Two Stories (produced by WFHB’s Books Unbound)
    MUSIC
    Tracks from Randy Weston’s 1963 Highlife
    “Zulu”
    58 min
  • Interchange – Bill Mullen on W. E. B. Du Bois and the Wages of Whiteness (2016)
    Think of it this way, W. E. B. Du Bois, born in February 1868, that’s 3 years after the end of the American Civil War, two years after Melville's volume of Civil War poetry, Battle Pieces, died in August 1963, at 95, the year John F. Kennedy is assassinated, the year Medgar Evers is assassinated, and the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers possibly the most famous speech in American history at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ("I Have a Dream").

    He straddles the more essential American Century, not demarcated by round numbers and whited school textbooks.  Du Bois's life and work is the American history we absolutely relegate to a minor strand as befits the country’s relationship with African-Americans.

    SEGMENT ONE
    We confront the enormity of Du Bois's life, spanning from the post-Civil War return of Jim Crow to his death in 1963 the day before MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech" at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

    SEGMENT TWO
    We look at how Du Bois turned from sociologist to activist, and how his research in the South during the end of Reconstruction was the impetus that led to the founding of the NAACP. Then we move to the major turn in Du Bois's thought--the second half of his life that gets less attention in the history books: socialism.

    SEGMENT THREE
    In our last segment, we'll look at the work Du Bois did in anti-nuclear proliferation and advocacy for the Soviet Union and against the unfolding Cold War in the 1950's, which attracted the attention of the powers-that-be in America. This eventually led to his de facto exile, with publishers blacklisting him and his passport being revoked. Finally we'll turn to the lighter side of Du Bois - his fiction - and how he still speaks to our times from a half-century ago, in his advocacy for universal healthcare and his disaffection for the so-called right to vote between two corporate-captured political parties.

    GUEST
    Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue. His books include W. E. B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press, 2016), a political biography of W.E.B. Du Bois entitled Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution (Temple University Press, 2015), Afro-Orientalism (Minnesota, 2004) a study of interethnic anti-racist alliance between Asian and African Americans, and Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics 1935-1946 (University of Illinois, 1999). He is faculty adviser to Students for Justice in Palestine at Purdue.

    RELATED
    The Life of W. E. B. Du Bois and Black Lives Matter by Bill Mullen
    Audio of "Socialism and the American Negro" by Du Bois (1960 speech sponsored by the Wisconsin Socialist Club): Part One and Part Two
    We Charge Genocide (1951)
    W.E.B. Du Bois’s ‘Darkwater’: Two Stories (produced by WFHB's Books Unbound)

    MUSIC
    Tracks from Randy Weston's 1963 Highlife
    "Zulu"
    "Congolese Children"
    "Cabana Bamboo Highlife"
    "Blues to Africa"

    CREDITS
    Producer & Host: Doug Storm
    Assistant Producer & Editor: Rob Schoon
    Board Engineer: Jennifer Brooks
    58 min

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