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Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.

This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.

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Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.

This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.

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    REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast

    REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast

    REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast by Left POCket Project Podcast

    • 2 hr 59 min
    89. The Last of...Us? w/Dani - Left POCket Project Podcast

    89. The Last of...Us? w/Dani - Left POCket Project Podcast

    A discussion of race, class, and politics in the HBO series The Last of Us w/guest Dani.
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    Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
    -Outro: "Wonder & Amazement" (feat. Jeremy Glenn) [Deetron Amazement Dub] by Grand Corporation
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    • 1 hr 28 min
    88. Discourse on Colonialism Pt 1 - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

    88. Discourse on Colonialism Pt 1 - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

    In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment, we discuss the Introduction and closing interview in the 2001 edition of Aimé Césaire's 1950 anticolonial manifesto Discourse on Colonialism
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    Readings & Resources:

    Brent Edwards - The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
    https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011038

    Négritude
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negritude/

    German Colonization of Africa
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_Africa

    Matthias Häussler -  Herero Genocide:  War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
    https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HausslerHerero

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    Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
    -Outro: "Pooh Pah" by I:Cube
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    • 2 hr 55 min
    87. Dignified Work - Gender, Race, & Class in Labor in Brazil w. Dr. Cassie Osei - LeftPOC Podcast

    87. Dignified Work - Gender, Race, & Class in Labor in Brazil w. Dr. Cassie Osei - LeftPOC Podcast

    In this episode, Dr. Cassie Osei discusses her research on the history of Black women’s labor and related social change in Brazil, conducting research in Brazil as a Black woman herself, and the racial politics of the reality show Love Is Blind: Brazil.

    Readings & Resources

    (from Dr, Osei):
    Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion
    https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

    Barbara Weinstein - “How does the painting ‘The Redemption of Ham’ by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?”
    https://www.choices.edu/video/how-does-the-painting-the-redemption-of-ham-by-modesto-brocos-illustrate-ideas-of-whitening/

    Katia Costa Santos - “Black Girls of Ipanema”
    https://nacla.org/black-girls-ipanema

    Keisha-Khan Perry - Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
    https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab


    Kia Lilly Caldwell - Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity
    https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/negras-in-brazil/9780813539577

    Raquel Barreto - “Amefricanity: The black feminism of Lélia Gonzalez”
    https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/amefricanity

    PhDivas Podcast - “Afro-Brazilian Women’s History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei”
    https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/s6e8-afro-brazilian-womens-history-low-femme-theory-with-dr-cassie-osei/

    Professor Osei on social media:
    Twitter: @tropigalia
    Instagram:@brasilianista

    (additional readings & resources):

    Edward Telles - Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
    https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691127927/race-in-another-america

    Juliana Barreto Farias (editor) - Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation
    https://dafricapress.com/Black-Women-in-Brazil-in-Slavery-and-Post-Emancipation-p81850749



    Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman - The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
    https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477307885/

    Silvio Almeida on youtube (em português)
    https://www.youtube.com/@silviolual

    “Maid Saved US$ 5,800 and Took Daughter to Disney World”
    https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/02/maid-saved-us5800-and-took-daughter-to-disney-world.shtml

    Love Is Blind Brazil
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81284981

    -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
    -Outro: "Deixa Rolar” by MC Tas
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    • 1 hr 47 min
    86. (Preview) Discourse on Colonialism - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

    86. (Preview) Discourse on Colonialism - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

    In this preview episode, Wendi reads a brief excerpt from Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, our upcoming #ReadingRevolution series selection.

    Readings & Resources:
    Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonialism
    https://nyupress.org/9781583670255/discourse-on-colonialism/

    https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf
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    • 12 min
    85. Dispatches from the Apocalypse - Left POCket Project Podcast

    85. Dispatches from the Apocalypse - Left POCket Project Podcast

    In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US

    Readings & Resources:
    “Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards”
    https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords

    “AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare”
    https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060

    “Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police”
    https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/

    “Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/

    Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion
    https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

    Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memory
    https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/

    “New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn”
    https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/

    “Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King”
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990

    “Understanding the AI Alignment Problem”
    https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/

    E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928.
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    -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone
    -Outro: "Let It Play” by Miguel Migs (ft. Martin Luther)
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    • 1 hr 43 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
145 Ratings

145 Ratings

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