Whiteness, Jake Paul, Boxing, & the Crisis of US Imperialism w/ Anthony Ballas

Guerrilla History

Henry

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🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have a fascinating conversation on the intersection of boxing, white supremacy, geopolitics, and imperialism, a discussion that you are sure to find interesting an useful even if you are not into boxing itself! For this, we bring on Anthony Ballas, who cowrote the piece Shadowboxing with Ghosts: Whiteness, Jake Paul, and the Crisis of U.S. Imperialism alongside the inimitable Prof. Gerald Horne for Black Agenda Report. Be sure to read the piece and listen to this episode, and stay tuned for another discussion with Tony soon, alongside Dr. Horne!

Anthony Ballas is an organizer and a PhD student at Duke University. His work appears in Monthly Review, Protean Magazine, Caribbean Quarterly, 3:AM Magazine, Truthout, Middle West Review, CounterPunch, Scalawag Magazine, Peace, Land and Bread Magazine, and elsewhere. He also the host of the De Facto Podcast and co-host of Cold War Cinema.

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0:00.0	You don't remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global
0:33.1	proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:39.2	Henry Huckimacki, unfortunately not joined by my other usual co-host, who of course is Professor
0:44.2	Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario,
0:48.8	Canada. Adnan is on the road today and was unable to join us for this conversation, but don't worry,
0:53.8	listeners. He'll be back for the next conversation, but don't worry, listeners,
0:54.6	he'll be back for the next conversation. With that being said, we have a really great guest today
0:59.5	and a really interesting topic, one that honestly, I am not the best suited to host the conversation
1:04.8	for on, which we'll talk about in a little bit, but the guest is terrific, and I know that the
1:10.4	conversation will be extremely fruitful. Before I, but the guest is terrific, and I know that the conversation will be
1:11.2	extremely fruitful. Before I get to the guest and the topic at hand, I want to remind you,
1:16.7	listeners, that you can help support the show and allow us to continue making it and having
1:20.4	conversations like this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-I-L-A history. So with that being said,
1:31.3	we have, I believe it's your first time on the show, Tony, but we have a longtime friend of
1:37.2	the show. Adnan and I are both very familiar with you. I've been friends with you for a couple
1:42.0	years at this point, long overdue
1:45.1	and having you on, but we have Anthony Ballas, who is an organizer with NFE local 4935 and a PhD
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