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#28 Shipped to Timbuktu

This week, Brittany guides us through the world of relationships...with a special interview from Relationship Goals podcast makers Danyel Smith and Elliott Wilson.

**Warning, this episode contains adult language and material.**

Episode #7 features clips from the following episodes:

Grownups Who Read Things They Wrote When They Were Kids Episode 212: "Mom always said MSN was the devil" (Toronto) -  https://grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids.com/episode/212/

StarTalk Radio - Cosmic Queries - Science of Love - http://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-the-science-of-love/

Relationship Goals - Episode 07: Shine Together - https://soundcloud.com/danyelliott-1/episode-07-shine-together

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#7 'Relationship Goals'

Brittany cracks the archives and pays a special tribute to Orson Welles. And Sampler's senior producer Sarah Abdurrahman plays Brittany some spooky stuff.**Warning, this episode contains adult language.**Episode #11 features clips from the following episodes (please click below for hyperlink to full episode):
 
- Orson Welles' The Hitchhiker,' by Lucille Fletcher, featured on Relic Radio
- Limetown, Episode 2: 'Winona'The Truth, '
- The Truth, 'Don't Touch a Thing'
- No Sleep Podcast, Season 3, Episode 23, 'Morning Mail'

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#11 'My Stomach Was in My Butt'

Food writer Francis Lam and Brittany dig in to what makes high cuisine and the rise of cooking culture.

**Warning, this episode contains adult language.**

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The Eater Upsell, Episode 17: Alton Brown Is The Food World's Philosopher King

The Sporkful: Other People’s Food Pt. 1: White Chef, Mexican Food

The Sporkful: Other People's Food Pt. 2: What's 'Poor People's Food?'

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#12 'Three Ways to Fillet A Fish'

Brittany evangelizes her best friend to listen to podcasts, and then talks biological clocks & accidental pregnancies with podcast producer Joanna Solotaroff.

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Episode #13 features clips from the following episodes (please go to our website www.gimletmedia.com/show/sampler for links to all episodes):

StarTalk Radio - George Takei and the Legacy of Star Trek

Flash Forward, Episode 2, Love at First Bot 

On Being, with Nikki Giovanni - Soul Food, Sex, and Space

The Longest Shortest Time

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**Correction: In a previous version of this show, we identified the guest in the Flash Forward clip as Madeline Ashby. The guest featured in the clip was actually Shelly Ronen.**

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#13 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot'

Left POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta) 

Resources regarding this episode:
“Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016)
http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/

“Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017)
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problem

History of Zimbabwe:

Alois Mlambo
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlambo

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Sabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3ASabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Terence Ranger
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=terence+ranger+zimbabwe&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aterence+ranger+zimbabwe

Simukai Chigudu (on cholera)
https://oxford.academia.edu/SimukaiChigudu


Additional suggested reading:

Elizabeth Schmidt
https://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Intervention-Approaches-African-History-ebook/dp/B00B4V6IPU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512297774&sr=1-1&keywords=elizabeth+schmidt

Nick Turse
https://www.nickturse.com/

Abayomi Azikiwe
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=abayomi+azikiwe&sprefix=abayomi+azikiw%2Caps%2C156&crid=2MBB8G755GGE

Walter Rodney
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=walter+rodney

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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 2 - Is Africa an Afterthought? w/@ztsamudzi & @HalfAtlanta

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ guest Lauren Lefty
Intro music: "Mastica, Chupa y Jala" by Ghetto Brothers
Outro music: "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" by Ghetto Brothers

(music & suggested reading list by Lauren Lefty)

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Suggested Reading

Academic Literature on Puerto Rico and its Diaspora:

Lorrin Thomas. Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City 

Virginia Sánchez Korrol. From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City 

Andrés Torres and José E. Velasquez, eds.. The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora

Sonia Song-Ha Lee. Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

Carlos Alamo-Pastrano. Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States

Solsiree del Moral. Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico

Nelson Denis. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony

Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. "Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón: The Young Lords, Black Power and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972," CENTRO Journal 18:1 (Fall 20016): 149-169.

Radical History Review issue: “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in a Postcolonial World?”: 
http://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/features/puerto-rico-a-us-colony-in-a-postcolonial-world/ 

Jones Act:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-jones-act-20170927-story.html 

Education (General):

And privatization/neoliberalism (recent): https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/education-privatization-charters-public-schools-betsy-devos

Podcast about Ed in the Time of Trump/Neoliberalism: https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast 

Puerto Rican Education Activism in NYC

Anthony DeJesus and Madeline Perez, “From Community Control to Consent Decree: Puerto Ricans Organizing for Education and Language Rights in the 1960s and 70s NYC,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 7-31. 

Lillian Jimenez, “Puerto Ricans and Educational Civil Rights: A History of the 1969 City College Takeover,” Centro Journal XXI, 2 (2009): 159-175.

            Lauren Lefty, "Evelina's Harlem: A Puerto Rican Educational Journey Through Space and Time," Columbia Teachers College Educating 
  Harlem Project, http://educatingharlem.cdrs.columbia.edu/omeka/neatline/show/evelinas-harlem 

Debt crisis and school closures/austerity: 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/hedge-funds-puerto-rico-close-schools-fire-teachers-pay-us-back

Post-hurricane schools situation: 
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ewa-radio-115287/episodes/after-the-storms-uncertain-fut-22103781 

Whitefish Contract Scandal: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-governor-says-contract-to-whitefish-company-should-be-canceled/2017/10/29/e5336cda-bcb8-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.6fe582ec606a

Ed and gentrification in NYC/El Barrio: 
http://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/ujju-aggarwal-edwin-mayorga-from-forgotten-to-fought-over-neoliberal-restructuring-public-schools-and-urban-space/

https://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/2016/11/18/a-master-plan-for-gentrifying-el-barrio-nyc/ 

Debt/Austerity:

PR Syllabus: https://puertoricosyllabus.com/ 

Austerity Post-María: https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/puerto-rico-natural-disaster-hurricane-maria 

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/31/san_juan_mayor_carmen_cruz_on 

UPR Strike:
https://www.thenation.com/article/students-are-now-leading-the-resistance-to-austerity-in-puerto-rico/

Left POCket Project - Episode 3 - "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre" w/ Guest Lauren Lefty

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/ Sangeetha Sudharshan (@sansdn)

music: "Hot Mess" by Logophilia

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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 4 - No Girls Allowed? A conversation w/@sansdn

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly

Suggested Reading
Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72

Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935)

Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970)

Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112.

Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & practice: Gender, race, & class,”Socialism & Democracy 17 (2003),109-122

Carole Boyce Davies,Left of Karl Marx:The Political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones,(Durham: Duke University Press, 2007)

____,”Sisters Outside:Tracing the Caribbean/Black Intellectual Tradition,”Small Axe 28 (2009),217-228

____,Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment,(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher,Inc.,2011)

Combahee River Collective,“The Combahee River Collective Statement,” in Homegirls:A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith,(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1983),264-269

Dayo F. Gore et al.,eds.,Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle,(New York: New York University Press,2009)

____,Radicalism at The Crossroads:African American Activists in the Cold War,(New York: New York University Press,2011);

Cheryl Higashida, Black International Feminism:Women Writers of the Black Left,1945-1995 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011)

Gerald Horne,Race Woman:The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois, (New York: New York University Press,2000)

Buzz Johnson,“I Think of My Mother”:Notes on the Life & Times of Claudia Jones,(London: Karia Press,1985) 

Erik McDuffie, “A ‘New Freedom Movement of Negro Women’:Sojourning for Truth,Justice, & Civil Rights during the Early Cold War,”Radical History Review 101 (2008),81-106

____, “‘I wanted a Communist philosophy,but I wanted us to have a change to organize our people’:The diasporic radicalism of Queen Mother Audley Moore & the origins of black power,” African & Black Diaspora 3 (2010),181-195

____,Sojourning for Freedom:Black Women,American Communism,& the Making of Black Left Feminism,(Durham:Duke University Press,2011).

____,“‘For full freedom of… colored women in Africa,Asia,& in these United States…’: Black Women Radicals & the Practice of a Black Women’s International,”Palimpsest 1 (2012),1-30

Louise Thompson Patterson,“Toward a Brighter Dawn,”Woman Today,April 1936

Rhoda Reddock,“Radical Caribbean social thought:Race,class identity & the postcolonial nation,”Current Sociology 62 (2014),493-511

Marika Sherwood,Claudia Jones:A Life in Exile,(London: Lawrence & Wishart,1999)

Ula Taylor,“‘Reading Men & Nations’: Women in the Black Radical Tradition,”Souls 1 (1999),72-80

____,The Veiled Garvey:The Life & times of Amy Jacques Garvey,(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press,2002)

Stephen Ward,“The Third World Women’s Alliance:Black Feminist Radicalism & Black Power Politics,”in The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights- Black Power Era edited by Peniel E. Joseph,199-144,(New York: Routledge,2006)

Mary Helen Washington,“Alice Childress,Loraine Hansberry, & Claudia Jones Write the Popular Front,”in Left of the Color Line:Race,Radicalism, & Twentieth Century Literature of the United Stated edited by Bill V. Mullen & James Smethurst,183-204,(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,2003)
For the full list, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/left-pocket-5-w-16178909
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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly

Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words, a conversation w/Yasmina Price & Jazz Hooks

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Left POCket Project Podcast - Episode 6 - @AFROSOCDSA in their own words

In this episode, we speak with historian and researcher Elise Mitchell about pandemics in history, their impact on marginalized populations - particularly the enslaved - and the linkages to the social impact of the current COVID-19 crisis. 
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Readings & Resources

Elise Mitchell - "The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease - Humanity's Long History of Making Epidemics Worse" 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/humanitys-long-history-of-making-epidemics-worse/607780/

Dayle B. DeLancey - "Vaccinating Freedom: Smallpox Prevention and the Discourses of African American Citizenship in Antebellum Philadelphia" 
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.5323/jafriamerhist.95.3-4.0296

Ida Altman - "The Revolt of Enriquillo and the Historiography of Early Spanish America"
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/revolt-of-enriquillo-and-the-historiography-of-early-spanish-america/AE46A808BFFB70C9DCE84F276821E650
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