Season 2 · Episode 211
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 211: From Head Shops to Whole Foods w/ Josh Davis
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
August 27, 20201h 5mExplicit
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Show Notes
What happened to the world of independently-operated head shops, feminist and black-owned bookstores, and health food markets that blossomed in the 1960s and 1970s? Josh Davis, professor of history and author of From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs, joins us to explain how a movement to change the world was slowly subsumed into the neoliberal hellscape of consumer capitalism.