Today we speak with two scholar-activists who are using satellite technologies and other tools to work for environmental justice, with specific attention to prisons and prison populations. They monitor air quality, water quality, extreme weather and other quantities...
Race
The Black Antifascist Tradition–a Conversation with Janelle Hope and Bill Mullen
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with Jeanelle Hope and Bill Mullen about their new book, The Black Antifascist Tradition, which uses a vast set of archival materials to show how Black intellectuals and activists regarded anti-Black racism as inseparable from...
Race, Violence, and For-Profit Prison: A Conversation with Robin Bernstein
Today we speak with Harvard professor Robin Bernstein about her new book, Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit. While researching a book to develop her earlier interests in race and childhood, Bernstein came across the case...
Black Geographics with Camilla Hawthorne–histories, futures, and affiliations
Today we talk with Camilla Hawthorne about her recent edited collection, The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity, and its relation to her prior monograph, Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean. She explains and...
What Does the Recent ICJ Finding with Regard to Israel’s War in Gaza Mean? A Discussion with Noura Erakat, Michael Lynk, and Maung Zarni
Today, on Speaking Out of Place, we discuss the recent International Court of Justice ruling on the Gaza genocide case, which found that Israel is plausibly engaging in genocide in Gaza. We discuss the case and its implications, as well as the colonial backdrop of the...
Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Today we talk with the prolific and wide-ranging scholar Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, just out from the University of Chicago Press. The book shows the emergence and conjuncture of...
get the latest
And be the first to know about new episodes
get the latest
And be the first to know about new episodes