This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com

and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for

dig listeners like you.

One new book from Verso that might be of interest

is Futures of Black Radicalism,

edited by Gay Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin.

Black Rebellion has returned.

Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses.

There is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought.

Here, key intellectuals, inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric

J Robinson, recall the powerful tradition of black

radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it

inspires. This book makes clear that new black radical politics is

thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between black resistance and

anti-capitalism. Futures of black radicalism features the key voices in this new intellectual wave,

including Greg Burris, Jordan T. Camp, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and many more.

Futures of Black Radicalism, out podcast from Jackman magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Last week we aired my interview with Barbara and Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection,

Racecraft, The soul of inequality in American life. Our discussion covered a lot of ground, but centered on the issue of how certain ways of

discussing and debating identity are, as Barbara put it,

a rope-a-dope distraction that keep us in thrall to the mystification of a centralized race, categories created by none other than racism itself,

and that are an obstacle for people recognizing common interests and then building powerful movements to transform society.

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