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Most parents are well-aware that, for their 14 to 18 year old children, “long-term decisions” are those dealing with the weekend, or maybe the prom and the like. So when military recruiters visit Arlington High School and invite our teens to make the potentially life-and-death decision to join the military, parents should take notice.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” a Faulkner character famously said. No issue in American life reveals the profound truth of that quote more than race, and no decade in our history so deeply shaped our modern conception of that notion, as well as the direction of a movement around it, as the 1960s.
From its inception, our media has offered both promise and peril. In this encore presentation, Peter joins two previously separate interviews on this common theme.
Joining Peter to discuss such questions of geography is Prof. Rashad Shabazz, associate professor at Arizona State University and author of the book, Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago.
Living in the global age that we do, it’s important to be reminded on occasion that we humans are most at home in our local communities–where we both know and are known.
It is clear that our children are inheriting a world very different from the one we older generations came of age in. And while it’s easy to dwell on the serious problems that we’ve handed them, our children fortunately have the benefit of growing up in a richer, more diverse global culture that we could ever have imagined. That gift, however, comes with an inherited set of challenges of its own.
In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and a handful of supporters marched some 240 miles to the sea to “make salt.” That is to say, they gathered up and thereby claimed that life-sustaining mineral as their birth right, not a commodity controlled exclusively by their British colonizers. For that act of civil disobedience, those Indian Salt Marchers–and the tens of thousands who soon joined them–were arrested en masse.
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When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes to be placed, his father replied–without hesitation–that it made no difference to him at all. Ultimately troubled by this response, Johnson set off on a 2,000 mile journey across the Upper Midwest to find the place where his father’s ashes belonged. But along the way, Allan came to question where it is that he belongs.
In this encore presentation, Allan joins Peter to discuss his journey–the questions it posed and the answers it yielded. Allan is a sociologist, nonfiction author and novelist best known for his work on issues of privilege and oppression. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, the memoir that is the basis of our conversation, Not from Here.
Few Supreme Court decisions in recent memory have so captured the attention of the American public as Citizens United. To help me explore the road to Citizens United, as well as consider the potential paths leading beyond it, is Timothy Kuhner, associate professor at Georgia State University College of Law. Professor Kuhner’s scholarship has been cited in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, and the American Journal of Comparative Law, and he is most recently the author of Capitalism v. Democracy: Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution.
Joining Peter to discuss such questions is Les Leopold, co-founder and director of the Labor Institute, a nonprofit educational organization that designs programs on occupational health and safety, the environment and economics for unions and community groups. He is also the author of four books, most recently Runaway Inequality: An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice.
ACMi is delighted to present “Comedy by Me, Emily B.” Emily Baker is one of the gifted interns working at the studio at the moment, and this halfhour laughfest showcases her considerable comedy chops.
Between the 1960s and the 1990s, the incarceration rate in this country skyrocketed some 400%, far outpacing any other industrialized democracy. And for some time since, scholars have so thought they understood why that happened it has become almost an unquestioned truth. But are truths always true? Turns out to be something of a whodunnit, actually, with the principal detective being my guest today.