Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast
Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.
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Show overview
Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 110 episodes. That works out to roughly 20 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language History show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 17 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Heights Libraries.
From the publisher
Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.
Latest Episodes
View all 110 episodesEpisode 115 – Why Everyone Hates White Liberals with Kevin M Schultz
Episode 114 – Modern Yoga and the Far Right with Stewart Home
Episode 113 – Racial Formation Theory with Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Episode 112 – James Baldwin and Racial Innocence with Kristine Taylor
Episode 111 – Plantation Goods – A Material History of Slavery with Seth Rockman
Episode 110 – Doomsday Cults and America with Jane Borden
Episode 109 – African Kings, Iberian Traders, and Black Slaves with Herman Bennett
Episode 108 – The Violence of the Great Replacement with Luke Baumgartner
Episode 107 – Race and The Roberts Courts’ Criminal Cases with Daniel Harawa
Episode 106 – Pregnancy, Birth, and Doulas with Andrea Ford
Episode 105 – Post-Racial Deception of the Roberts Court with Cedric Merlin Powell
Cedric Powell is the Wyatt, discusses his article, “The Post-Racial Deception of the Roberts Court” in which he argues that the supposed colorblind rhetoric masks an agenda to strip precedent, history and reality away from Supreme Court decisions. By looking at the Civil Rights and Civil War Amendment cases, Powell shows how the Roberts Court […]
Episode 104 – Frantz Fanon and Anti-Colonialism with Adam Shatz
Adam Shatz discuss his book, The Rebel’s Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. Shatz brings to life Fanon as a man shaped by philosophy, psychiatry, and the anti-colonial struggles in Algeria and Africa. While also detailing how his two books, Black Skin, White Masks and Wretched of the Earth, combined Fanon’s empathy and anger […]
Episode 103 – Highlander Folk School and the Civil Rights Movement with Elaine Weiss
Elaine Weiss discusses her book, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement. It is the story Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for social change founded by a white southerner with roots in the labor movement. The school became a focal point inspiring Rosa Parks, Pete Seeger, and originating Citizenship […]
Episode 102 – Genetics and Race with Rina Bliss
Rina Bliss discusses her book, What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society. Professor Bliss begins by posing the question, what is the true relationship between genetics and race? While genetics proves race does not exist, racism persists. By looking into the history of racial science and eugenics, Professor Bliss explains how these false […]
Episode 101 – Lord Dunmore’s Emancipation Proclamation with Andrew Lawler
Andrew Lawler discusses his new book, “Perfect Frenzy: a Royal Governor, his Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution.” It is the story of the colony of Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution and Lord Dunmore, infamous British villain. But what is fact and what is fiction? Lord Dunmore issued […]
Episode 100 – Alt-Right, Nazis, and Trump Staffing with Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore is a freelance journalist covering the far right. We discuss her year undercover in the Alt-Right and her continued work exposing Nazis. Moore’s work has centered on far-right influencer Nick Fuentes’s misogyny and neo-Nazi rhetoric. Most recently, she’s monitoring the J6 insurrectionists and the continued appeal of those who’s convictions were commuted and […]
Episode 99 – Interrupting the Supreme Court with Tonja Jacobi
Tonja Jacobi discusses her article “Supreme Court Interruptions and Interventions: The Changing Role of the Chief Justice.” Recent scholarship has focused on how often the Supreme Court Justices get interrupted, especially when female Justices are speaking. To fix this, the Court changed how hearings are run. This article looks at whether these interruptions—and the gender […]
Episode 98 – Sherman’s March of Emancipation with Bennett Parten
Bennett Parten discusses his book, Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation. The book tells the story of Sherman’s March through the south as a social history of the refugee crisis brought on by the war and the Emancipation Proclamation. As freed slaves rushed toward the Union forces, they brought […]
Episode 97 – White Innocence and Black Infant Mortality with Annie Menzel
Annie Menzel discusses her book, Fatal Denial Racism and the Political Life of Black Infant Mortality. Drawing on her own experience as a midwife as inspiration, Prof. Menzel lays out the history of white innocence, flawed racial science, and the cult of true babyhood all contribute to real violence to black maternal outcomes. As overt […]
Episode 96 – Private Prisons After Dobbs with Robert Craig
Robert Craig discusses his article, “Fundamental Rights and Private Prisons after Dobbs: Shifting Sands and Opportunities.” He details the history of private prisons next to the history of state-run prisons. Additionally, the competing interest of for-profit prison incentivizes extended incarceration and cost cutting practices that set the stage for a legal argument based on Plyler […]