169 - POIR 13

Published: July 14, 2020, 10:49 a.m.

Episode marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language.

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Content note: racism, gaslighting

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Recorded a little over a week after George Floyd\u2019s death at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, MN (US), this episode touches inexpertly on some of the components of white supremacy.

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Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 50 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/50-marcel-schwald/) and Page One 51 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/51-filippo-andreatta/).

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You can read Priyamvada Gopal\u2019s Huffington Post article on Black deaths in police custody in the UK here: https://bit.ly/3cIhFpv and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/PriyamvadaGopal.

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You can read Roxane Gay\u2019s New York Times article on racism in the US here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/trump-george-floyd-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rgay.

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You can listen to Guilaine Kinouani on the podcast Getting Better Acquainted here: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-274-guilaine-kinouani and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/KGuilaine

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You can read Alicia Liu writing about the limitations of empathy here: https://medium.com/counter-intuition/empathy-is-mostly-useless-998e94f69463

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You can read about the 1944 film Gaslight on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film)

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You can watch Claudia Rankine talking about and reading from her book Citizen on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnq71TlUvo

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You can read discussion of police abolition in the US and the UK as part of a review by Peter St\xe4uber of Alex S. Vitale\u2019s book The End Of Policing in Counterfire here: https://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/20167-the-end-of-policing-book-review and read an interview with Alex S. Vitale in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alex-vitale-defund-police-interview/ More information about police abolition in the US can be found by following links curated by The Marshall Project here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/3382-police-abolition

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You can read about the prison abolition movement in the US in Teen Vogue here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-prison-abolition-movement and about the prison abolition movement in the UK in the Independent here: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/big-idea-prison-abolition-social-problems-domestic-violence-a8275636.html

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You can watch a very interesting discussion on prison abolition and its relationship to policing and the criminalisation of vulnerable communities between Reina Gossett and Dean Spade in four parts on YouTube starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQlW1uJ8uQ

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Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian

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Episode recorded: 2nd June, 2020

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More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

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Book listing:

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The Making Of Americans by Gertrude Stein (Page One 50)

Signifying Nothing from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (Page One 51)