Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, May 2nd, 2024. Earlier today, protesters gathered outside Bryan Hall to deliver a letter of resignation for Indiana University President Pamela Whitten. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB correspondent Brookelyn …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:03 — 26.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhiteness: the privileges associated with one’s white skin color. Racial divides have a starting point in America – Bacon’s Rebellion. This episode traces the origins of the rebellion and the role it played in beginning a long history of racial tension in America. Bacon’s Rebellion gave certain …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:02 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World. That steel mill is the Gary Works of US Steel which was …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | More Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. Our conversation with historian David Roediger took place about a month ago on October 14th and in between then and now fell November …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:58 — 42.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is “Whiteness Is As Whiteness Does: On the Typologies of Whiteness” with guest Heath Schultz, self-described as a “white, anti-racist, political activist.” Our opening song is already illustrative of the discussion to follow–Eric Clapton erasing Robert Johnson with his version of “HellHound On My Trail.” …
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