I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest Black Lives Matter

addition. It's June 10th, 2020 on today's show we will be discussing anti-racist

reading lists, are in fashion now for white liberal readers especially, but on

what premise do they proliferate

and get sampled from we discuss this with Lauren Michelle Jackson and then

cops are just everywhere in popular culture I mean they practically make up

popular culture as we understand it is a time to acknowledge

fictional representations of law enforcement are part of the problem here

should all cop shows be cancelled and finally the current protests are

unthinkable without citizen video footage made from iPhones, they prevent all the

apparatuses of denial from kicking in and saying what is clearly happening is not happening.

We will discuss the consequences of everyone having a device with which to capture police

malfeasance.

Joining me today is Julia Turner, who is of course the deputy managing editor at the LA Times.

Calling in from LA, hey Julia, how's it going?

Hello Steve. And of course Dana Stevens film critic for slate.com, hey Dana.

Hello Steve. Okay Julia well obviously this is not a usual week to be doing a show, so maybe talk a little bit about that.

Yeah, I mean we had said last time that we were going to talk about the Great Ballet Movie Center Stage this week.

For all of you who watched the great ballet movie center stage,

we will talk about it in a future week,

but given the mass protests across the country in the world

in protest of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis and of

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