Keli Dailey is the guest on this week's packed full of goodness installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . She is the host of News Hangover , an online comedy news series. News Hangover is smart, sharp, and funny as Keli and her guests use comedy and satire as a means to talk about current events, social justice, and other related topics. Keli is also a journalist who worked at the U-T San Diego newspaper as a food writer. She is a Stanford grad and self-described "black hipster". This makes for ...
Apr 23, 2015•2 hr 12 min
Professor Claire "Tenured Radical" Potter is the guest on this installment of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Potter is a scholar of American Studies, history, and popular culture. She is a Professor of History at The New School and is the author/editor of several books including War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture and the forthcoming Beyond Pornography: How Feminism Survived the Age of Reagan . As the "Tenured Radical" she is perhaps best known for ...
Apr 14, 2015•1 hr 46 min
Dr. Jeffrey T. Sammons and Dr. John H. Morrow Jr. are the guests on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show where we discuss their new book "Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War" . They are both starred scholars. Jeffrey T. Sammons is Professor in the Department of History at New York University and the author of Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society . John H. Morrow, Jr., Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia, is the author of several books, inc...
Apr 03, 2015•1 hr 21 min
Rosalyn Dischiavo , founder of the Institute for Sexual Education and Enlightenment is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is a fun and interesting conversation that began several years ago when Dr. Dischiavo reached out to Chauncey DeVega with some questions about a blog post he shared regarding the colorline, kink, sexuality, and "race play". That series of emails planted the seeds for Dr. Dischiavo's good sharing on The Chauncey DeVega Show . Roz and Chauncey d...
Mar 27, 2015•1 hr 41 min
Adilifu Nama , Professor of African-American Studies at Loyola Marymount University and expert on race and popular culture is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Adilifu has written several books including Black Space and Super Black . He has also written a forthcoming book on the films of Quentin Tarantino. In this fun episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Adilifu and Chauncey take a long and winding walk along the colorline and its intersections with race, popular cul...
Mar 19, 2015•1 hr 45 min
David Greven , professor and expert on Star Trek is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . David is the author of numerous books including Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek: Allegories of Desire in the Television Series and Films . He is also Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina. In this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , David and Chauncey talk about the Star Trek TV and film universe and how it both represents and struggles...
Mar 12, 2015•1 hr 16 min
Journalist and political analyst Paul Rosenberg is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Paul is a contributing writer to news outlets and websites such as Salon.com , Alternet , and Al Jazeera . He is also the senior editor of Random Length News . Mr. Rosenberg also runs the website Merge Left. Paul is a sharp and amazingly insightful observer of American (and global) politics. He is also very patient as he sits down with Chauncey DeVega under the learning tree. In this...
Mar 05, 2015•1 hr 38 min
For this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , I had the great opportunity to talk with Mr. Frank Schaeffer . He is a frequent guest on MSNBC, Free Speech TV, and many other radio and TV outlets. Mr. Schaeffer possesses gifted insight on the rise of the Christian Right in the United States. As a young man, he was there as his father, along with the likes of Jerry Falwell, laid the groundwork for the influence of the Christian Right on the Republican Party. Frank has shared those experiences in h...
Feb 05, 2015•57 min
For this, the second episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show of 2015, I chatted with Dr. Mickey Hess about the life and times of the legendary hip-hop artist Ol' Dirty Bastard. Mickey took on the challenge of tracking down Dirty's family, friends, and fellow members of the seminal hip-hop group The Wu-Tang Clan for his new book The Dirty Version: On Stage, In the Studio, and In the Streets With Ol' Dirty Bastard. Hess's hip-hop vision quest paid off with a book full of great stories and insights abo...
Jan 30, 2015•1 hr 11 min
To begin 2015, The Chauncey DeVega Show will feature two shows focusing on hip hop music. Our first guest for 2015 is Jack Hamilton . He is a contributing writer at Slate magazine, and also an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. I am a member of the hip hop generation. My own work focuses on race, hip hop, and the politics of popular culture. It is always wonderful to chat with a fellow traveler such as Jack Hamilton. In this episode of The Ch...
Jan 22, 2015•1 hr 33 min
For this, the sixth episode of the third season of The Chauncey DeVega Show , I had the good fortune to chat with Tim Wise. Tim is one of the United States' leading anti-racist educators and activists. He is the author of numerous books including Dear White America , White Like Me , Speaking Treason Fluently , and Between Barack and a Hard Place . In addition to speaking engagements stateside and internationally, Tim is a frequent guest on MSNBC , CNN , and other media outlets. Tim's website can...
Dec 23, 2014•1 hr 12 min
For this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , I had the great opportunity to talk with Jason Colavito. Our conversation is a real treat and gem for ghetto nerds and those others who are interested in fringe history and other types of "alternative" knowledge systems. Jason is an expert skeptic whose work appears on his eponymous website jasoncolavito.com . He is the author of numerous books. Jason has also appeared in documentaries and other media where he offers up his direct, clear, and realit...
Dec 17, 2014•1 hr 6 min
The police killer of Eric Garner is free. The police killer of Michael Brown is free. The police killer of 12-year-old Tamir Rice was a documented incompetent and a member of a racist Cleveland police department: he too is still free. Even more grotesque--American police departments do not keep accurate documents noting how many people they actually kill in a given year. America may not have the "desaparecidos" of her Southern neighbors; yet, the allusion is a chilling one that hints at the powe...
Dec 09, 2014•1 hr 13 min
The imminent decision by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri about whether to (not) indict Darren Wilson for his choice to kill an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown looms over Ferguson, Missouri. The grand jury will likely let Wilson go free without consequence for his wicked deeds. The tension in Ferguson--and around the United States--about the grand jury's decision is not an anxiety about the just Sword of Damocles. Rather, among the good, honest, ethical, and moral, the worry is that justi...
Nov 20, 2014•1 hr
I have written extensively about the killing of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. However, like most of the cultural critics, analysts, and interested public, I have not had an opportunity to actually go to Ferguson, and to speak with the members of the under siege, bullied, and harassed by the thuggish white police, African-American community that resides there. For those of us who live outside of Ferguson, our insights into that community are mediated by others. While the b...
Nov 13, 2014•43 min
For this, the first episode of Season 3 of The Chauncey DeVega Show , I decided to reach back to the first guest on the first episode of the podcast series from almost two years ago. Bill the Lizard is my heterosexual life partner (to quote Kevin Smith). He is also a great friend of the site and possesses a masterful intelligence and knowledge of all things Star Wars . In our first conversation for Season One , Bill and I discussed the (then) new announcement that JJ Abrams would be making Star ...
Nov 06, 2014•1 hr 30 min
