What are the politics of producing history? Can you have an objective history? Is the US an empire? What is hegemony and why do I keep seeing it on Twitter? Learn about civilization and empire with your hosts Isue, April, Andrew, Adi, and guest Professor Naoko Shibusawa. 

Further readings
Michel-Rolph Trouillot - Silencing the Past 
Howard Zinn - Objections to Objectivity (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1tWgyroIhCiaGVLOWlITnpGZm8)
Julian Go - Patterns of Empire
Naoko Shibusawa - Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1tWgyroIhCiLUZ5OGJ3Wm5yLWM)
El Fisgon - How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for Roadside Vendors

Music
Knxledge - kometostai.aintreallynootherwaytoputitro
Adi - Woke
Onra - Ms. Ho
William De Vaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got 
Muhsinah - YGML



Civilization & Empire

How is slavery related to the history of capitalism? What are the impacts of slavery on the current U.S. political system? What about reparations? Join your hosts Isue, April, Andrew, Adi, and guest Professor Barrymore Bogues to learn more about the history of slavery and its relevance to the present.

Further reading
Edward E. Baptist - The Half Has Never Been Told
J. Lichtenstein - Cotton: The Fabric of Death
Giorgio Riello - Cotton

Music
Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry 
J. Cole - January 28th
2Pac Shakur - White Manz World

Slavery

Why is everyone talking about free speech again? Join your hosts Isue, April, Andrew, Adi, and guest Dean Mary Grace Almandrez, Director of the Brown University Center for Students of Color, to talk about activism on college campuses.

Further Reading
Greg Jobin-Leeds & AgitArte - When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
Jeff Goodwin & James M. Jasper - The Social Movements Reader

Music
Kendrick Lamar - Alright 
Public Enemy - Fight the Power 
Sam Cooke -A Change Is Gonna Come


Campus Activism

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How did the Third World/Global South come to be? What is underdevelopment and how does it happen? What is the place of migrant workers in the global capitalist system? Who is a refugee? Learn about migration and refugees with your hosts Isue, April, Andrew, Adi, and guest Professor Vazira Zamindar.

Further Reading
John Berger & Jean Mohr - A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experiences of Migrant Workers in Europe
Mike Davis - Late Victorian Holocaust: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Music
Shing02 - I Miss you
Dom La Nena - Batuque
Lijadu Sisters - Come on Home

Migrants & Refugees

Join your hosts Isue, April, Andrew, and Adi to learn about history and its silenced narratives