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Dec 20 2019

Chuck's Favorite Books of 2019

Posted by Matthew Boedy

Chuck picks his 18 favorite books from the 100+ he read for the show this year:


A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

DaMaris Hill / Interview

 

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Kellie Carter Jackson / Interview

 

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Anna Merlan / Interview

 

Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Mithu Sanyal / Interview

 

Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family

Sophie Lewis / Interview

 

White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela

Gerald Horne / Interview

 

Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism

Marquis Bey / Interview

 

How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram Kendi / Interview

 

Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

Jodi Dean / Interview

 

The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

Corey Robin / Interview

 

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

Jenny Brown / Interview

 

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

Wendy Brown / Interview

 

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga Yamhatta Taylor / Interview

 

The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

Flint Taylor / Interview

 

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Charles King / Interview

Episode 1107
Dec 18 2019

Mass surveillance and social regulation.

Episode 1106
Dec 17 2019

After Labour's loss / Ruined by design.

Episode 1105
Dec 16 2019

What's next for dissent in France?

Episode 1104
Dec 11 2019

The Lebanese constitution and the street.

Episode 1103
Dec 10 2019

School is stupid / Against self-driving cars.

Episode 1102
Dec 9 2019

The future of energy and the Green New Deal.

Episode 1101
Dec 4 2019

Before and after the Yellow Vests.

Episode 1100
Dec 3 2019

The right's shadow network.

Episode 1099
Dec 2 2019

The dawn of cultural anthropology.