Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000 / Gerald Horne

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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We return to Hell today with Gerald Horne, on his new book “Revolting Capital: Racism & Radicalism in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000” (International Publishers). Sebastian Wüpper also returns with a 'Past Inside the Present.’ Find Gerald's book here (and as a raffle prize at our listener appreciation party): https://www.intpubnyc.com/.../revolting-capital-racism.../ Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton University.

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0:00.0	The Take it back. This is hell.
0:31.0	hell.
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0:35.0	Oke-Doke.
0:39.0	And we're back. Manufacturing descent since 1996.
0:42.0	This is hell. And after a two-week break
0:46.9	following yet another surgery for your bitter blind broke,
0:51.4	Gaptooth radio show, live stream stream and podcast host Chuck Mertz.
0:55.6	That's me and there's no better way to return with all new live shows than by having as our guest today a listener favorite. We start this week
1:07.4	with the only guest whose every interview on the show has been chosen by you, the listening audience, as one of your favorites of the year for five straight years.
1:21.0	And we would not be surprised if this will be the sixth that he will be honored by you, our listening audience.
1:28.0	We are very happy to have back on the show and featuring as our first guest back.
1:37.0	Historian Gerald Horn, author of the new book Revolting Capital Racism and Radicalism in Washington, D.C.
1:43.6	1900 to 2000.
1:45.6	Gerald has been called one of the great historians of our time by Green Party
1:49.5	presidential hopeful, Cornell West.
1:51.6	He is the John Jay and Rebecca Moore's chair of history
1:56.2	and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Gerald examines US
2:01.4	history through a lens of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, white supremacy, and imperialism, and their genocidal impacts on Africans and indigenous Americans.
2:12.0	Dr Horn has written nearly 40 books dealing with the influence of African American history,
2:17.3	communist history, the struggle for liberation, internationalism, imperialism,
2:20.7	imperialism, colonialism, racism, white supremacy, and fascism.
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