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CS 295: Feds Is Watching Aug 01, 2020

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This episode is hosted by Kenny and Mario. Today we discuss and contextualize the events of the protest in Portland and also give a brief history of the actions of the federal government as it pertains to their interactions with black power movements as well as the Los Angeles Gang scene and how they intersect.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

Preview for CS 294: Do White People See Gay Black Men As Less Black and More White? Pt. 2 Jul 25, 2020

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This is a preview of Part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is available for free over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39686297. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the whole archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, and out newsletter.

This episode is hosted by Trevor. We welcome two social psychologists who specialize in stereotyping research, Christopher Petsko (https://twitter.com/chris_petsko), a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University, and Justin Preddie, a doctoral student at the University of Kansas. We discuss intersectional stereotyping, prejudices, and intergroup relations. Specifically, we discuss Christopher’s paper “Racial stereotyping of gay men: Can a minority sexual orientation erase race?” (https://www.academia.edu/38590526/Racial_stereotyping_of_gay_men_Can_a_minority_sexual_orientation_erase_race) and Justin’s thesis “Gay Black man does not equal gay + Black + man: An Intersectional Analysis of Race and Sexual Orientation Stereotypes” (https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/30094/Preddie_ku_0099M_16599_DATA_1.pdf?sequence=1) and unpublished article “More Than the Sum of its Parts: An Intersectional Analysis of Group Similarity and Stereotype Content.”

CS 293: Do White People See Gay Black Men As Less Black and More White? Pt. 1 Jul 25, 2020

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This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 2 is available to paid subscribers over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39687357. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the whole archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, and out newsletter.

Teaser Preview for CS 292: Art Of Self Defense feat. Dexter “Doc” Peggins pt 2 Jul 19, 2020

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This is teaser preview of Part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is available for free over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39472172 and the full version of part 2, which is only available to Patreon subscribers, can be found at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39472538. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the whole archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, and out newsletter.

This episode is hosted by Mario. We welcome back Dexter ‘Doc’ Peggins, a veteran of the military having served in both the U.S Marine Corps and U.S Army, in which 23 years were served as a Combat Medic in the U.S Army . Dexter has worked at various federal organizations performing duties in the areas of emergency preparedness, management and response. Dexter is the owner of Steel Standing LLC; this company specializes in providing training to members of the community in emergency medical care and urban preparedness and survival. His sites can be found at http://steelstandingllc.com/home.html and https://www.instagram.com/steel.standing/.

CS 291: Art Of Self Defense feat. Dexter “Doc” Peggins pt 1 Jul 19, 2020

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Teaser Preview of CS 290: Why I Still Hate Hamilton feat. Ishmael Reed pt. 2 Jul 09, 2020

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This is a teaser preview of Part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free to everyone over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39151330. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the whole archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, and our newsletter.
This episode is hosted by Mario, Trevor and guest co-host Andray Domise. Today we welcome Ishmael Reed. Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, lyricist and essayist and his biography is too extensive to fit in the show notes, but you can go over to https://ishmaelreed.org/drupal/node/1 to read it all. We talk about his new play “The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda” (https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ishmael-reed-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-play-review/) and also his other work throughout the years as well as thoughts on Black literature and movements past and present. Malcolm X, James Baldwin, RIchard Wright, and Langston Hughes get mentioned, as well as a litany of underappreciated greats.
Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

CS 289: Why I Still Hate Hamilton feat. Ishmael Reed pt. 1 Jul 09, 2020

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This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free to everyone over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39152835. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the whole archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, and our newsletter. This episode is hosted by Mario, Trevor and guest co-host Andray Domise. Today we welcome Ishmael Reed. Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, lyricist and essayist and his biography is too extensive to fit in the show notes, but you can go over to https://ishmaelreed.org/drupal/node/1 to read it all. We talk about his new play “The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda” (https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ishmael-reed-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-play-review/) and also his other work throughout the years as well as thoughts on Black literature and movements past and present. Malcolm X, James Baldwin, RIchard Wright, and Langston Hughes get mentioned, as well as a litany of underappreciated greats. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

CS 288: The New Jane Crow feat. J. Khadijah Abdurahman Jul 07, 2020

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This episode is hosted by Trevor. Joining us today is J. Khadijah Abdurahman (https://twitter.com/UpFromTheCracks). Khadijah is a child welfare system abolitionist and an independent researcher whose focus is predictive analytics in the child welfare system. She is the co-founder of Word2RI, an oral history archive of racial justice and gentrification on Roosevelt Island, Director of We Be Imagining, a series of digital programming examining race and technology through infusing academic discourse with the performance arts in partnership with community based organizations in collaboration with Columbia University’s INCITE Center and The American Assembly’s Democracy and Trust Program, and is a visiting researcher and lecturer at Cornell Tech in the Milstein Program .

Also check out her podcast “We Be Imagining” (https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast) anywhere you find and listen to podcasts.

Teaser Preview CS 287: Black Star News Pt. 2 feat. Milton Allimadi Jul 07, 2020

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This is a teaser preview of Part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and available at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39053404. Part 2 is for paid Patreon subscribers and is avaiable at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39053789/. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the whole archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, and our newsletter.

This episode is hosted by Kenny and T. Today we have guest Milton Allimadi (https://twitter.com/allimadi). Ugandan born Milton Allimadi is a comitted Pan-African. He publishes Black Star News, hosts a weekly show on WBAI New York radio, and he’s an adjunct professor of African History at John Jay College. The new edition of his book “The Hearts of Darkness, How White Writers Created The Racist Image of Africa,” is forthcoming.

Allimadi believes everyone should add these books to their library: Things Fall Apart (Achebe), Decolonizing The Mind (Ngugi), How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Rodney), The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James), Accumulation on A World Scale (Amin), Neo-Colonialism The Last Stage of Imperialism (Nkrumah), The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley), and African Origins of Civilization (Diop). Check out his current decolonizing the mind petition campaign: https://www.change.org/p/the-whole-world-wake-up-africa-rename-victoria-falls-and-lake-after-african-icons?original_footer_petition_id=18028178&algorithm=promoted&source_location=petition_footer&grid_position=8&pt=AVB

CS 286: Black Star News Pt. 1 feat. Milton Allimadi Jul 07, 2020

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This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 2 is for Patreon subscribers over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/39053789. Become a paid subscriber for $5/month over at patreon.com/champagnesharks and get access to the whole archive of subscriber-only episodes, the Discord voice and chat server for patrons, and our newsletter.

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