Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we’ll revisit our interview with historian Nancy Isenberg about her book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. But there’s a twist – I’ve re-edited the program to make use of a broader musical perspective, feeling like I had betrayed the spirit of …
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Interchange – Unfounded America: Taking Out the Myth with the Trash
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:59 — 53.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor “Unfounded America” we’re joined by Nancy Isenberg author of the popular and provocative new book, White Trash: The 400-year Untold Story of Class in America. Laura Miller writes of the book in Salon: Tapping into scores of sources, Isenberg traces the emergence of the white-trash stereotype …
Read More »Interchange – The Radical Democracy of Henry David Thoreau: A Conversation with Branka Arsic’
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:14 — 54.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhat may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it means to live by an ethics of inclusion and acceptance of differences and to eschew what is given to us politically …
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