Julie Carr is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, including Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein (Essay Press 2022), Real Life: An Installation (Omindawn 2018), Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta 2017), and Someone Shot my Book (University of Michigan Press 2018). Earlier books include 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta 2010), RAG (Omnidawn, 2014), and Think Tank (Solid Objects 2015). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press 2015). Her co-translation of Leslie Kaplan's Excess-The Factory was published by Commune Editions in 2018. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2023. The Underscore, a book of poems, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2024. Carr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow, is a Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in English and Creative Writing, and is chair of the Women and Gender Studies department. She has collaborated with dance artists K.J. Holmes and Gesel Mason. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver. Mud, Blood, & Ghosts: Populism, Spiritualism, & Eugenics in the American West: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/neb... www.reallifeaninstallation.com www.juliecarrpoet.com www.counterpathpress.org Intro Music: "Channel 3" by Dyad Outro Music: "For Love" by Jason Moran

This interview took place on 30 January 2024. Toscano discusses his recent book, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism & the Politics of Crisis (Verso, 2023), as well as the Black Radical Tradition in America and internationally, abolition, as well as the relationship between fascism and liberalism historically as today. Toscano also offers an insightful commentary on disturbing parallels between far right culture and certain trends in "anti-woke," left-wing white nationalism in North America. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL FOR MORE! Logo Design: Alya Ansari Intro Music: Dyad Outro Music: Jason Moran Alberto's book is available from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2...

In this episode, Dr. Horne discusses his book, THE WHITE PACIFIC: U.S. IMPERIALISM & BLACK SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH SEAS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (U of Hawaii P, 2007). Dr. Horne contextualizes his research on the Pacific region and the South Seas, discusses the often unacknowledged link between the Whaling Industry and Black Slavery or so-called "black birding" in the region, and goes o to discuss other topics including the role of the Hawaiian Kingdom and Japan, the U.S. overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani in the coup of 1893. As usual, Dr. Horne also comments on literature and film, contemporary politics and more. Finally, Dr. Horne discusses his latest research on the Pacific for an upcoming book on the COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF 1893. Dr. Horne closes our discussion with a detailed review of some of the major work on the Pacific that he's read. AT THE VERY END of this episode you'll a preview of Episode 14: Gerald Horne on Moscow, Haiti, Floyd Mayweather in Israel and Mike Tyson's return to the ring against YouTuber and Disney star Jake Paul (forthcoming on this channel very soon!) Intro Music by DYAD Outro by Jason Moran Please like, subscribe and share for more interviews like this one!

In this episode, Dr. Horne and I focus on his 2021 book The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing. Dr. Horne discusses the history of boxing, slavery, settler colonialism, white supremacy, as well as masculinity, race, the fluidity of whiteness, and corruption in the context of the sport of boxing. Dr. Horne also offers an analysis of Chuck Schumer's recent speech, the Zionist lobby, the war on the people of Gaza, the rise of Saudi Arabia as the new capital of boxing, and the spectacle and predominace of MMA. Intro Music: Miles Davis, "Archie Moore" from A Tribute to Jack Johnson Outro Music: Jason Moran, "For Love" from The Sound will Tell You Special Thanks to Gerald Horne for donating his time once again, and a special shoutout to Ryan Napoli for all his assistance. The Bittersweet Science: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/the-bittersweet-science-racism-racketeering-an-the-political-economy-of-boxing/ Gerald Horne: https://www.uh.edu/class/history/faculty-and-staff/horne_g/

In this episode I am joined by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly aka Dr. CBS. We discuss her recently published book, Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023). Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. She is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State. Dr. Burden-Stelly has published in peer-reviewed journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, and CLR James Journal and in popular publications like Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence magazine, The Nation, Teen Vogue, Black Perspectives, and Black Agenda Report. She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace. Works by Dr. CBS: Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/... W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History (co-authored with Gerald Horne) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/web-du-... Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing (co-edited with Jodi Dean) https://www.versobooks.com/products/2... Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State (co-edited with Percy C. Hintzen and Aaron Kamugisha) https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/... Intro Music: "Naima" by John Coltrane Outro Music: "For Love" by Jason Moran Don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel!

For episode 8 of De Facto I am joined by Robert Beshara who recently translated Mourad Wahba's 1995 book Fundamentalism and Secularization. Beshara discusses the work of Wahba, the task of translating his book from Arabic to English, the influence of Ibn Rushd on Wahbha, and how Wahba's book can help us to better understand and better critique the rise of the far right, religious nationalism, and various other fundamentalisms extant today. Beshara also discusses the importance of interpretation for Ibn Rushd and Wahba. Beshara also briefly discusses his new book, A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye, and announces, for the first time publically, yet another book that he has on the horizon. I want to give my utmost and heartfelt thanks to Robert Beshara for generously donating his time to De Facto, and for his scholarship, his music, and for his warmth, generosity, and support more generally. Robert K. Beshara is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019) and Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021). He is also the editor of A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova, 2019) and Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality (Routledge, 2021). Further, he is the translator of Mourad Wahba's (1995) Fundamentalism and Secularization (Bloomsbury, 2022). Beshara is the founder of the Critical Psychology website: www.criticalpsychology.org. Finally, he works as an Associate Professor of Psychology & Humanities and Chair of Arts & Human Sciences at Northern New Mexico College. For more information, please visit www.robertbeshara.com Mourad Wahba was born in Assiut, Egypt on October 13, 1926. Professor at Ain Shams University, Egypt, and a member of a number of academic and international institutions. He is the founder and head of the International Association of Ibn Rushd and Enlightenment. He was recognized in "500 Personalities of the World" and awarded Egypt's "Nile Award" in Social Sciences for 2018. Website: http://mouradwahba.com/ Intro music, "Terremoto" by Horny Cricket (aka Robert Beshara) Outro Music, "For Love" by Jason Moran Outro Music #2, "For Keith" by Horny Cricket (aka Robert Beshara) Links from the Episode: Fundamentalism and Secularization by Mourad Wahba, translated by Robert Beshara: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fundamentalism-and-secularization-9781350228726/ A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-2886-4-sample.pdf Robert's Bandcamp: https://hornycricket.bandcamp.com/

In this interview, Gerald Horne and I discuss his two books on Hollywood, Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, & Trade Unionists (University of Texas Press, 2001) and The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. Dr. Horne also discusses the import of the ongoing 2023 SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. We also dig into an early essay of Dr. Horne's entitled "Rethinking the Lumpen: Gangsters and the Political Economy of Capitalism" from the journal Nature, Society, and Thought (1997), and discuss the role of the lumpen in contemporary American politics, specifically with regard to the recent RICO indictment of Donald Trump and co. in Fulton County, Georgia, charged with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Other works discussed in this episode:

Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, available here: https://tinyurl.com/yh8n72nn

Dr. Horne's interview with Dr. Sepinwall for Freedom Now KPFK Los Angeles is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSIB92f8NHI

Anthony Ballas's commentary on Dr. Sepinwall's book is available here: https://tinyurl.com/v8sn73pc

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Outro Theme: "For Love" by Jason Moran

Special thanks to Aspen Ballas for her editing assistance on this episode.

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For Episode #6, Dr. Gerald Horne and I revisit an early book of his entitled, Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis & the Communist Party first published in 1994. Ben Davis was the first Black Communist elected to political office in the United State of America. As a communist leader in Harlem in the 1930s through the early 1960s, Davis built a broad anti-capitalist movement against the horrors of Jim Crow and white supremacy. in this interview, Dr. Horne expands on his early research on Davis and the Communist Party and offers a fresh analysis on our current geopolitical situation including the rise of fascism and and the new red scare. See Dr. Horne Speak about his new book Revolting Capital: Racism and Radicalism in Washington D.C., 1900-2000: https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index2_geraldhorne_2023.php You can order Revolting Capital right here: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/revolting-capital-racism-radicalism-in-washington-d-c-1900-2000/ You can also pre-order I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader edited by Tionne Allyiah Parris from OR books right here: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/i-dare-say-a-gerald-horne-reader/