Interchange – Colonial Mentality (Spring Fund Drive Special)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)

Subscribe: RSS | More

Our show today selects segments from four recent programs that highlight Colonial Mentality…and of course I’m stealing that phrase from the great Fela Kuti – whose song of the same name opens this show. Our music throughout the show comes from each of the original programs.

We’ll begin with our show on the revolutionary life of James Baldwin with author and scholar Bill Mullen whose book shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral aspect of his public attack of racism, sexism, homophobia, and more generally, the matrix of repressive American power both domestically and internationally.”

Then we’ll hear a selection from part two of our conversation with Walter Johnson about his book The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. Our focus is on the twinning of civilization and barbarism captured in the white supremacist phrase that you can kill the Indian and save the man. That pedagogy is at the liberal heart of dispossession and debt.

After that, The Jakarta Method, with Vincent Bevins. The “Jakarta Method” is the anticommunist playbook concocted by the CIA and employed to great success (the nearly overnight erasure of the largest unarmed socialist party in the world) and prompting replication in several other countries in South America and Latin America.

And we’ll close with Yannick Marshall and our show “The Plantation on Fire,” about liberalism as a white supremacist ideology and topics such as white settler culture, anti-blackness, and patriotism as racist ideology.

Full Progam Links:
From Another Country: Bill Mullen on James Baldwin’s Revolutionary Life (August 4, 2020)
St. Louis: Patterns of Segregation and Alibis for Abandonment (December 15, 2020)
The Communists Made Us Do It: The Cold War Cover for Mass Murder (October 6, 2020)
The Plantation On Fire: Yannick Marshall on Liberalism and Anti-Colonialism (August 11, 2020)

CREDITS
Producer & Host: Doug Storm
Executive Producer: Kade Young