Part 4 in the survey series, A Renegade History Course. This is the fourth discussion with historian Thaddeus Russell, the author of A Renegade History of the United States.
Discussed Today:
-Differing views on the 14th Amendment
-W.E.B. DuBois, what happened?
-Assimilation of free black people
-formal culture vs. popular culture
-Dan Emmett created black face out of envy?
-who is the #1 consumer of hip-hop today?
-the expectations immigrants refused to meet
-the strange benefit of racial segregation
-the "wages of whiteness"
-Drapetomania
-work without religion
-using labor saving devices to labor all the time
-racial liberalism
-Brown v. The Board of Education
Bumper Music:
"Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos" - Public Enemy
Look Closer:
Thaddeus Russell's Site - www.thaddeusrussell.com