The Dig: Beware Carceral Gun Control

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🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Prevailing debate obscures the fact that we already have a form of gun control in the United States. As legal scholar Ben Levin explains, the problem is that it’s a form of gun control that is mostly about locking up poor black men in huge numbers. The Left should demand a society without readily available weapons of war on the streets and a society without mass incarceration. Thanks to our supporters at University of California Press. Check out their new title Race and America's Long War from Nikhil Pal Singh. And check out Dan's Jacobin article on carceral gun control here. Also, catch Dan in Atlanta at the International Drug Policy Reform conference on October 14.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com
0:05.0	and by University of California Press, which publishes loads of titles of
0:11.0	interested Dig listeners like you.
0:13.6	One that you might find interesting is Race and America's long war by Nikil Paul Singh.
0:19.5	Donald Trump's election produced shock and disbelief for liberals,
0:23.0	progressive, and leftist globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis
0:27.4	neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here.
0:31.6	Race in America's long war examines the relationship
0:35.8	between war, politics, police power, and the changing contours of race and racism in the contemporary United States. Singh argues
0:46.0	that the United States pursuit of war since the September 11th terrorist attacks
0:50.7	has reanimated a longer history of imperial state craft
0:55.2	that segregated and eliminated enemies both within and overseas.
0:59.9	America's territorial expansion and Indian removals, settler in migration and nativist
1:06.4	restriction, and African slavery and its after-lives were formative social and political processes that drove the rise of the United States
1:17.2	as a capitalist world power long before the onset of globalization.
1:24.0	Spanning the onset of globalization. Spanning the course of U.S. history, these crucial essays
1:27.8	show how the return of racism and war
1:30.9	as seemingly permanent features of American public and political life is at the heart of our
1:37.2	present crisis and collective disorientation.
1:41.2	Race in America's Long War by Nikil Pal Singh.
1:45.0	Out now from University of California Press. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
2:07.0	This is a second week in a row where the Diglet has two separate guests.
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