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Magnum Opus, Roots 2, White Ethnic Revival in Post-civil Rights America.

Last August I needed a vacation and time to finish my book.

This year, I need a vacation and time to work on building a statewide left-wing political

organization in Rhode Island. 2020. There you have it. I do have some really great

interviews coming up in the next few weeks. Kelly Lidal Hernandez on her book, Migra,

Raphael Randall and Andre Celine on cadre formation in general and youth organizing in

particular, and then Matthew Countryman on Up South, Civil Rights

and Black Power in Philadelphia.

And then a whole lot more, including Bathsheba DeMuth on floating coast, an environmental history of the Bering Strait, and Nicole Ashoff on the smartphone society.

Technology, power, and resistance in the new Gilded Age.

I'm posting this old interview today not just because I need a break, but because Columbus statues are getting

toppled while many Italian Americans fight to keep them standing.

Which makes you wonder, why are so many Italian Americans so attached to the icon of a murderous colonialist from 15th century Genoa

an independent republic with strong commercial ties to present day Spain

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