In your ear
Long-form spoken essays — primary-source readings, original commentary, and occasional conversations. Every essay ships with a written transcript.
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Aimé Césaire's 1950 argument that European fascism was European colonialism, finally applied at home, is the most-cited passage of Discourse on Colonialism — and the most-misread. Twenty-eight minutes restoring the argu…
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Twenty-five minutes on Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection and the framework it has produced inside Black studies. We discuss what the 'afterlife of slavery' frame illuminates and where the contemporary academic depl…
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An unabridged reading of Thomas Sankara's October 4, 1984 address to the U.N. General Assembly, followed by ten minutes of historical context on Burkina Faso under Sankara and the 1987 assassination.