Ep. 189 Embracing Rage with Myisha Cherry

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, Literature

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is Dr. Myisha Cherry, a philosopher, professor, and author, whose work focuses on emotions and attitudes in public life. Her latest book is The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle. Myisha shares why we must embrace our rage if we want to improve our society, how we've been socialized around anger, and how allies can cause harm.

You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/11/10/ep-189-myisha-cherry

The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, we will discuss the book on November 24th with Dawnie Walton.

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0:00.0	All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left
0:08.5	Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show
0:16.2	We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsey. Yes, that Rachel Lindsey the first black bachelor at also
0:22.2	She is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being
0:26.4	We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and
0:33.7	The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer, comedian director and of course the host of
0:42.6	Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast
0:46.6	We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club
0:52.6	One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams
0:57.8	It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out
1:14.7	Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them
1:17.7	I'm your host Tracy Thomas and our guest today is professor of philosophy and author Maesha Cherry
1:23.0	Maesha's work focuses on emotions and attitudes and public life her latest book is the case for rage
1:28.5	Why anger is essential to anti-racist struggle and today we talk about rage as a tool about moralizing emotions and the ways that
1:36.9	Allies can get in the way the sex book club pick for November is song of Solomon by Tony Morrison
1:42.3	We will be discussing the book on the show on Wednesday November 24th with Donnie Walton
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2:10.6	And now I just want to take a quick moment to shout out some of our newest members of the stacks pack
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