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Sunday Show: The Imperial Side of LA & Austerity Attacks History Itself ft. Daniel Bessner (Patreon)

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2020-05-10 19:48:22
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Silicon Valley still less powerful than LA, from a global empire standpoint. NatSec script doctors. Austerity and History. The IDW as status-quo naturalizers. Why do certain fields get funded in America and how critical they are of US empire. How to defend history as a discipline. Cross-occupational organizing.

Check out Daniel's book here and his twitter @dbessner

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Sunday Show: The Dark Side of LA & Austerity Attacks History Itself ft. Daniel Bessner

Silicon Valley still less powerful than LA, from a global empire standpoint. NatSec script doctors. Austerity and History. The IDW as status-quo naturalizers. Why do certain fields get funded in America and how critical they are of US empire. How to defend history as a discipline. Cross-occupational organizing. Check out Daniel's book here and his twitter @dbessner http://danielbessner.com/book/

Comments

Ken Mitchell

Michael, add “City of Inmates...” by Kelly Lytle Hernandez to your book list for LA histories, if you haven’t already.

NavyCherry

I have to mention Mike Davis's & Jon Weiner's new book "Set The Night On Fire - LA in the Sixties" - just bought it

Joshua Baker

Bessner is great, have him on more often! Great suggestions so far for books about LA. I'd say the book to start with is City of Quartz by Mike Davis. He captures so much in that about what makes LA's history is so unique in it's relationship to postwar American culture and cultural exports. In addition if you can find it, I highly recommend the documentary Bastards of the Party which was on HBO at one time, but no longer. Great history of gang culture in LA and Mike Davis is in the movie!

Joshua Baker

On another note, I'd beg to differ with Daniel's assertion that the changes in history education need to happen in college. It's not that they don't, they're desperately needed. However, he cites all of the workers in the gig proletariat who need to get engaged. Where are they going to get their education? The public schools have been the canary in the coal mine for over a decade and history is the epicenter of the crisis. If we don't change how history is taught in our public schools we'll never reach a point of overcoming the powers that be in the institutions of higher education.