Against the Grain – March 18, 2009
Mae Ngai's investigations into the history of immigration, citizenship and race provides critical context for ongoing debates over undocumented immigration.
Against the Grain
12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays
Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – March 17, 2009
U.C. Berkeley professor Charles Henry talks about his book "Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations."
Against the Grain – March 16, 2009
Fyodor Dostoevsky's works of fiction, and the social and political ideas that animate them, are discussed by Liza Knapp and Robin Feuer Miller. Marilyn Campbell has co-adapted Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" for the stage.
Against the Grain – Nato Thompson and Debra Lynn Bassett
Nato Thompson talks about his new book "Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism." And Debra Lynn Bassett talks about how and why rural lives and conditions tend to get ignored by policymakers.
Against the Grain – March 9, 2009
In her new book "Screening Sex," U.C. Berkeley professor Linda Williams describes how and why the depiction of sexual themes and activities in American films has changed and developed over time.
Against the Grain – “The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism”
In his new book "The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism," David Theo Goldberg examines how race is mobilized politically and how racism operates in today's world.
Against the Grain – March 3, 2009
Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander's new book is "The Superferry Chronicles: Hawaii's Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism and the Desecration of the Earth."
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Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello discuss the nature of the ongoing economic crisis, the solution-generating potential of people's movements, and the status of labor in China.
Against the Grain – February 25, 2009
Rory Cox talks about the perils of importing liquefied natural gas into California. And Lester Rowntree explains how global warming is affecting, and will affect, the Bay Area.