Name: The Reformatory: An Interview with Tananarive Due by Boston Review
Duration: 46 min 11 s
Description: The award-winning writer Tananarive Due reads her short story, “The Reformatory,” and interrogates the fraught legacies of slavery and mass incarceration in literature.

The award-winning writer Tananarive Due reads her short story, “The Reformatory,” and interrogates the fraught legacies of slavery and mass incarceration in literature.

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The Reformatory

The Reformatory: An Interview with Tananarive Due

The first season of A People's History comes Tuesday, November 19, 2019.

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Episode 1 of 6. "Placement" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. November 19, 2019. At a new public housing project in Boston, mothers organize to try and close the city dump. Meanwhile, a black freedom movement emerges across Northern cities. 

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode One, "Placement"

Episode 2 of 6. "Grove Hall" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. November 26, 2019. As urban rebellions arise in cities, welfare rights advocates in Boston public housing use militant tactics to get services they are owed.

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode Two, "Grove Hall"

Episode 3 of 6. "Rent Strike" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. December 3, 2019. Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority. 

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

Episode Three, "Rent Strike"

Episode 4 of 6. "Free Breakfast" from The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing. January 7, 2020. Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point.

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From Jacobin magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, this podcast traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

The Reformatory: An Interview with Tananarive Due

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