Imagine More Radically (with Saidiya Hartman)

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week we've got DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam covering The Royal Family, racism in textbooks, poverty replacing the draft, restitution centers, and the marketing of drugs to jails. Then, DeRay sits down with 2019 MacArthur Fellow Saidiya Hartman to examine the complications in archiving black history. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/pharmaceutical-companies-are-marketing-drugs-jailers/604264/ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/09/17/student-loan-crisis-not-mideast-wars-helped-army-leaders-exceed-recruiting-goals-this-year/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.clarionledger.com/in-depth/news/local/2020/01/09/debtors-prison-miss-still-sends-people-jail-unpaid-debt/2742853001/ https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/so-free-month-people?utm_source=Audio&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=1000140 https://burrow.com/PEOPLE

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Durey. Welcome to Potsy of the People. In this episode we have me, Brittany Clinton, Sam, Sam is back.
0:08.0	Welcome Sam. And then we're joined by Professor City of Hartman, who is at Columbia University in 2019, MacArthur Fellow.
0:14.5	She wrote Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Intimate Histories, and Social People.
0:19.0	You know the word for this week is that there's so much to explore.
0:23.0	I recently traveled to Ghana, which was incredible. Sam just traveled and we'd all been places.
0:29.5	And one of the things about traveling abroad, it reminded me that there's so much in the world to see.
0:34.5	That if you book in advance, which I'm not very good at, you can actually travel way more inexpensively than you used to be able to, which is so incredible.
0:44.0	And it reminded me when I got back home that there's actually so much in the state that I haven't seen.
0:48.0	There's so many states I've never been to. There's so many landmarks and cultural sites to see in the United States that I haven't seen.
0:54.0	So my commitment to myself in 2020 is to just explore a little bit more.
0:58.0	Explore in places that I just haven't been meeting new people, experiencing new things. Let's do it.
1:09.0	Hey y'all, it's the news. This is Brittany Pactnet, cutting him at Miss Pact Yeti on all social media.
1:14.0	And this is Sam, Saniangui at Sam's way on Twitter.
1:16.0	Sam's back!
1:17.0	Hey!
1:18.0	And this is Clint Smith, at Clint Smith III.
1:20.5	Hi, hi, hi, and this is Drey at DIY on Twitter.
1:24.5	A couple of big things coming out of the sports world.
1:27.5	First of all, the Queen Mother, the goat herself, these Serena Williams, has reclaimed another title.
1:34.5	The first in about two years, her first is a mother, so I hear.
1:39.5	And she's donated her winnings to help fight the massive wildfires across Australia.
1:46.5	Yeah, I mean, what's remarkable about Serena is that this is her 73rd title over the course of her career.
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