Goodbye Columbus with Matthew Frye Jacobson
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Dan’s 2018 interview with Matthew Frye Jacobson on Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America. With a new intro from Dan on the Columbus myth and the politics of white ethnicity.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig, like every episode of The Dig, is produced in partnership with Jacobin Magazine. |
| 0:07.5 | Jacobin is an incredible publication, and you've probably seen a lot of what they've published online. |
| 0:13.3 | But they also have a really beautiful print magazine. |
| 0:17.2 | It comes out quarterly and has well over 100 pages packed with illustrations, infographics, |
| 0:24.5 | and some of the best graphic design in the country. |
| 0:28.2 | Dig listeners can join 50,000 Jacobin subscribers, |
| 0:32.1 | developing socialist political thought and debate for just $15 a year. |
| 0:37.7 | $15 gets you an entire year of Jacobin in print and access to the magazine's entire |
| 0:44.0 | back catalog. |
| 0:45.6 | If you've never subscribed to Jacobin before, you can access this deal by going to |
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| 1:01.8 | Jacobin. |
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| 1:05.1 | dig Jacobin, all lowercase. |
| 1:16.2 | Okay. Jacobin, all lowercase. It's August tomorrow, and so today I'm posting a highly relevant rerun. |
| 1:21.8 | My June 2018 interview with historian Matthew Frye Jacobson on his hyphenated Americans magnum opus, |
| 1:29.3 | Roots 2, White Ethnic Revival in Post Civil Rights America. |
| 1:35.3 | Last August, I needed a vacation and time to finish my book. |
| 1:39.3 | This year, I need a vacation and time to work on building a statewide left-wing political organization in Rhode Island. |
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