Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 127 minutes

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A lengthy interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Dan talks to the sister scholars about the book; how Ta-Nehisi Coates’ primordialist view of white racism spells defeat; that racism serves the interest of capitalist class war, and endless debates over Rachel Dolezal distract us from that fact; and a whole ton more. This is over two hours, so you might want to bite it off on a few chunks, or on a long drive. Thanks to our sponsors at Verso. Check out Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today by Anna Feigenbaum versobooks.com/books/2109-tear-gas And support your (favorite?) left-wing podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px}

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,
0:06.7	which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:13.5	One that you might like is tear gas, from the battlefields of World War I to the streets of today,
0:20.3	by Anne Feigenbaum.
0:22.3	100 years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches.
0:28.5	Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches,
0:32.6	tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing and gagging.
0:37.6	Chemical weapons are now banned from war zones, but today, tear gas has become the most commonly
0:43.4	used form of less lethal police force. In 2011, the year that protests exploded from the Arab
0:50.9	Spring to occupy Wall Street, tear gas sales tripled.
0:56.5	Most tear gas is produced in the United States,
0:59.3	and many images of protesters in Tahrir Square
1:02.7	show tear gas canisters with Made in USA printed on them.
1:08.4	Meanwhile, Britain continues to sell tear gas to countries on its own human rights
1:13.8	blacklist. An engrossing century-spanning narrative, tear gas is the first history of this weapon,
1:21.3	and takes us from military labs and chemical weapons expos to union assemblies and protest camps,
1:28.4	drawing on declassified reports and witness testimonies,
1:32.1	to show how policing with poison came to be.
1:36.5	Tear gas from the battlefields of World War I to the streets of today,
1:41.4	by Anne Feigenbaum.
1:43.5	Out now from Verso Books.
1:47.0	Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence,
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