A History of Human Caging with Kelly Lytle Hernández

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of human caging in Los Angeles, from the Spanish Conquest to the mid-twentieth century, in her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. It's a story of indigenous exploitation and elimination, immigrant detention and deportation, and the suppression of cross-border revolutionary movements. Thanks to our sponsors at Verso Books. Check out Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot versobooks.com/books/2571-out-of-the-wreckage Support us with your $ at patreon.com/TheDig.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on patreon.com and by Verso Books,
0:06.6	which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:12.4	One that you might like is Out of the Wreckage, a New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbia.
0:19.7	A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism
0:24.7	dominates our world.
0:26.6	It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose.
0:32.0	Only a positive vision can replace it,
0:35.6	a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better
0:41.7	future. George Monbia shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology
0:50.2	cast human nature in a radically different light as supremely altruistic and cooperative.
0:57.6	He shows how we can build on these findings to create a new politics of belonging.
1:04.2	Both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganized from the bottom up,
1:10.3	enabling us to take back control
1:12.5	and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions
1:16.6	for a better society.
1:18.7	Out of the wreckage, a new politics for an age of crisis
1:22.4	by George Monbiah.
1:24.2	Out now from Verso Books.
1:35.0	Music Marnbia. Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm
1:41.1	broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:49.7	Accounts of mass incarceration and the carceral state often begin amidst the law and order backlash of the 1960s, or perhaps farther back, with convict leasing and other forms of
1:57.5	controlling black workers in the South after the abolition of slavery.
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