23 Aug

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In Episode 7 we explore how the media discusses the issue of BDS and the broader topic of Palestinian liberation.What are the stakes? Who are the smear artists? What are the similarities with past apartheid boycotts? We discusses these topics and more using a 1989 pro-apartheid Christian Science Monitor op-ed as our guide.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-07-bds-the-moral-narratives-of-colonization[/embed]NYT’s BDS Debate Excludes BDS ProponentsAdam Johnson | April 6, 2017 | FAIRDefending Apartheid: Then in South Africa, Now in PalestineNima Shirazi | August 30, 2014 | Wide Asleep in AmericaOn 50th Anniversary of Israeli Occupation, Palestinian Opinions Largely IgnoredAdam Johnson | June 7, 2017 | FAIRJeffrey Goldberg’s Anti-Boycott Bluster & BlunderNima Shirazi | December 19, 2010 | Wide Asleep in AmericaScarlett’s Letter: SodaStream’s Global Apartheid Ambassador & the Enduring Effervescence of Ethnic CleansingNima Shirazi | January 26, 2014 | Wide Asleep in AmericaThe “Constructive Engagement” of Liberal ZionistsNima Shirazi | April 15, 2013 | Wide Asleep in AmericaFor even more background on the boycott movement, arguments for and against it, and a deeper dive into the colonial history of Zionism in Palestine, see here.And here’s the pro-Apartheid article we discuss...

08 Aug

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artwork pictured by @/yesitsalex___In Episode 6 we explore how the media both consciously and subconsciously works to smear black victims, protect the police, and works overtime to ameliorate the sensibilities of white media consumers.The white supremacist regime at work in the media can be broken down into three main narrative devices: 1) The use of language to downplay state violence and assert false parity 2) The uncritical dissemination of exaggerated or made up threats to police to turn the aggressor into the victim 3) The posthumous smearing of black victims to rationalize their killing after the fact.In this episode we examine the mechanisms of these narrative devices, how they influence public perception and why they create the media environment that makes more Mike Browns all but certain.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-06-the-medias-default-setting-of-white-supremacy[/embed]The GuestDr. Jared BallDr. Jared A Ball is a professor of Media, Communications, and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Maryland. Dr. Ball is a prolific writer, speaker, and multimedia producer at imixwhatilike.org. His commentary can be read everywhere from the Washington Post to the Nation, the Grio to the Root, and beyond. A...

02 Aug

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On Episode 5, we explore the history of the media erasing socialists of color from the history books and present day discourse––A tactic that serves to both commodity and water-down black radicalism and pawn off leftwing politics as a uniquely white or middle class enterprise.[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-05-purging-socialists-of-color-from-history[/embed]The books discussed in today’s program are as follows:[embed]https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885[/embed][embed]https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885[/embed][embed]https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885[/embed][embed]https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885[/embed][embed]https://www.amazon.com/Hammer-Hoe-Communists-Depression-Morrison/dp/0807842885[/embed]The GuestsRobert Greene II is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of South Carolina. His research covers American intellectual history, the history of the United States South since World War II, and political history since Reconstruction. Mr. Greene has a book chapter coming out as part of the Southern Studies collection Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region, forthcoming from UGA Press, along with essays published by Scalawag, The Nation, Jacobin, Dissent, and Politico. He has alsopublished the essay “South Carolina and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement” in the journal Patterns of Prejudice, and is a blogger and book review editor for the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians.Roqayah Chamseddine is a Lebanese-American writer, published poet, and editor in chief of Wanderings. Magazine. Along...