Ned and Constance Sublette are the guests on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . They are the authors of the amazing and powerful new book The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry . Ned and Constance do some serious teaching and sharing on a very difficult subject for this week's show. Chauncey and his guests work through questions regarding the scale and scope of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, how many people were killed during that horrific business, why...
Dec 10, 2015•1 hr 49 min
Dave Neiwert is the guest on this week's episode of T he Chauncey DeVega Show . He is one of the United States' foremost experts on the American Right-wing media, militia movement, and politics more generally. He current writes the Hatewatch blog for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Dave Neiwert is the author of several books including The Eliminationists . He is one of the founders of the essential news website Crooks and Liars . Dave is also an ally of our animal friends. His new book is Of Or...
Dec 04, 2015•1 hr 47 min
Sean McElwee is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Research Associate at the Demos think tank . He is also a contributing writer for Salon and Al Jazeera. In this great conversation on The Chauncey DeVega Show , Sean and Chauncey talk about race and wealth inequality, if the United States is still a "democracy", libertarianism, and what the data reveals about how the plutocrats and 1 percent have gamed America's politics to their own advantage. Sean also does ...
Nov 28, 2015•1 hr 32 min
Paula Ioanide is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Ioanide is a Professor of Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies at Ithaca College. She is the author of the great new book The Emotional Politics of Racism: How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness . In this conversation on The Chauncey DeVega Show , Paula and Chauncey talk about emotion, empathy, sympathy, and human concern across the color line. They also discuss police brutality, the white racial ...
Nov 20, 2015•1 hr 39 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features sports journalist Irvin Muchnick. In addition to many articles, he is the author of Justice Denied ; Wrestling Babylon ; and Concussion Inc. . He is a smart, direct, and incisive writer who is expert at locating events in the "world of sports" within their broader social context. In this installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Irvin and Chauncey talk about how the worlds of professional wrestling and broader American culture and life int...
Nov 13, 2015•1 hr 49 min
Historian Heather Cox Richardson is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Richardson is the author of numerous books including To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party and Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre . She is also a contributing writer for the online magazine Salon.com . Her essays on American politics, culture, and the past/present of the GOP offer an amazing amount of wonderfully researched and grounded insight into ...
Nov 06, 2015•2 hr 5 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show explores all things Star Wars and Star Wars: The Force Awakens related. Almost 40-years-ago George Lucas created one, if not the, most important film and popular culture universe of the 20th century. In less than two months, the much anticipated sequel to the landmark original Star Wars sequels will debut in December. For the first part of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , friend of the podcast, and Star Wars expert Bill the Lizard ...
Oct 30, 2015•2 hr 8 min
Sociologist Douglas McAdam is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. McAdam is the author or coauthor of some 85 articles and 18 books such as Freedom Summer and Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. His new book, Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America examines race, political polarization, and the rise of the Tea Party movement. Dr. McAdam is also a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences--what ...
Oct 23, 2015•1 hr 59 min
Filmmaker, producer, and singer John Michael Williams is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . This is an expansive conversation that touches on John's recent documentary "Bridgend" about the epidemic of teen suicides in a small town in the United Kingdom , finding one's life vocation, money, success, human strength and human weakness on both sides of the color line, as well as the nuts and bolts of making a documentary film. It is likely that John Michael Williams was a...
Oct 16, 2015•1 hr 50 min
Performance artist M. Lamar is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . M. Lamar is a New York city-based composer, musician, performer, multimedia artist, and counter tenor whose work "Negrogothic, a Manifesto" has been featured by The New York Times and the Museum of Modern Art . M. Lamar is smart, funny, and honest. In this conversation, M. Lamar and Chauncey talk about art, creativity, race, sexuality, the movie Django: Unchained , fetishing the black penis, racial viol...
Oct 09, 2015•2 hr 21 min
Nina Hartley is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Nina is a legendary adult film actress and sex educator who has starred or performed in more than 650 films since her debut in 1984. She continues to perform, give lectures, and run seminars on sexual health, agency, and spirituality. She is also a great and enthusiastic conversation partner. In this conversation, Nina and Chauncey talk about the state of American politics and the psycho-sexual derangement of today's ...
Oct 01, 2015•1 hr 25 min
Gary Brown is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Gary is a TV writer, producer, and director who worked on such landmark shows as Benson and 227 . Mr. Brown is also a former writer with World Wrestling Entertainment. Chauncey and Gary connected because of the latter's great piece in the L.A. Progressive that detailed how Donald Trump is actually a professional wrestling heel . Given Chauncey's series of essays on politics and professional wrestling, and how Donald Tru...
Sep 25, 2015•1 hr 42 min
Dr. David Frankfurter is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a Professor of Religion at Boston University. David is also the author of several books, most recently, Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History . Dr. Frankfurter does some great teaching in this episode of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . What makes someone "evil?" How is that concept abused in American political and social discourse? Was Dylann Roof "evi...
Sep 17, 2015•1 hr 46 min
Political Scientist Joe Uscinski is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the co-author of the new book American Conspiracy Theories . It is now 14 years since the tragedy of September 11th. In this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show , Professor Uscinski and Chauncey discuss the conspiracy theories that have come into existence about that tragic day, how they function as a type of alternative belief system more generally, and the relationship between political val...
Sep 10, 2015•1 hr 47 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two great guests. The first part of the show is very unique, and is perhaps a first in the history of podcasting and other online media. Friend of the show and website Bill the Lizard stops by and offers up a very concerned and heartfelt intervention for his friend of many years Chauncey DeVega. Apparently, Chauncey has been compromised, grammatically possessed by an entity known as "epononymously". Over the course of several years, Bill t...
Sep 04, 2015•2 hr 3 min
Walidah Imarisha is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Walidah is an activist, writer, and historian whose work focuses on the history of black Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the power of speculative fiction, and how storytelling, organizing, and dreaming are essential tools for social change work. I discovered her work on the website Gizmodo as referenced in a story about black migration to the Northwest. While there may not have been black folks in the game Ore...
Aug 26, 2015•1 hr 50 min
This week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show features two firsts. David Friendly is the director and producer of the new documentary on sneaker culture known as "Sneakerheadz" . David is the first Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar-nominated guest--for his work on the great movie Little Miss Sunshine --to sit down at the virtual bar and salon known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . David Friendly is also the first person to spend some time chatting with Chauncey DeVega who has won a BAFTA for ...
Aug 11, 2015•2 hr 5 min
Sean McFate is the guest on this week's episode of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . Sean is an expert on international and military affairs. He is also the author of the book The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order . Sean McFate is also a very fun, smart, and insightful conversation partner as he and Chauncey DeVega dialogue about the present/future of warfare, the old/new rise of mercenaries, popular culture, foreign affairs, and the changing same ...
Aug 06, 2015•1 hr 50 min
Psychiatrist David Reiss is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . David and Chauncey first connected in a previous podcast discussion of the passing of the late great professional wrestler "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes. This is a continuation of that great discussion and David does some great sharing and teaching. David is a mental health practitioner who in addition to his private practice and consulting has worked very closely with athletes from a range of backgrou...
Jul 30, 2015•2 hr 5 min
There are two guests on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show . It is full of goodness, teaching, learning, and great conversations. The first talk features Jonny Campbell. He has directed HBO's recent miniseries Casual Vacancy based on the work of Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Campbell also directed the zombie TV series In the Flesh on the BBC, in addition to the classic Dr. Who episode Vincent and the Doctor . This conversation was great fun. Chauncey and Jonny have a great dialog...
Jul 23, 2015•2 hr 16 min
Historian Gregory Downs is the guest on this week's edition of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Downs is the author of the new book After Appomattox , which offers an analysis of the post Civil War era South, Reconstruction, American freedom, and the struggle for African-Americans to defend their newly one gains in the face of white racial terrorism. Professor Downs' new book is an excellent history of American politics and a corrective to misunderstandings about the Civil War and its aftermath. D...
Jul 16, 2015•1 hr 53 min
Documentary filmmaker Shan Nicholson is the guest on this week's edition of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . His new film Rubble Kings , explores the gang culture of New York during the 1970s and how it gave birth to hip-hop music and culture. Rubble Kings is also an excellent documentary about young people's political activism, a great and exciting examination of social change and youth culture, and a fun exploration of what I like to call "hidden history". Friend of the podcast ...
Jul 09, 2015•1 hr 46 min
Jonathan Lethem is the featured guest on this week's installment of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show. He is the author of many award winning books including Dissident Gardens , The Fortress of Solitude , and Motherless Brooklyn. Jonathan conducted a master class and did some wonderful sharing about the culture of disreputability, the movie They Live , race and class, generational politics, and shared some stories about growing up in a pre-Disneyfied New York City. This episode also ...
Jun 25, 2015•2 hr 18 min
Ali Abunimah is the guest on this week's edition of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is an internationally known human rights activist and author whose work focuses on the struggle for the Palestinian peoples' full rights and freedom. Ali Abunimah is also the co-founder of the essential website Electronic Intifada . In this great conversation, Ali and Chauncey talk about many issues. They include the global colorline and human rights, the United States' militarized police, the ...
Jun 11, 2015•1 hr 38 min
Dr. Henry Giroux is the guest on this week's edition of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of numerous books such as the recent The Culture of Organized Forgetting . He is also an essential voice in this time of trouble, neoliberalism, austerity, and cruelty. Dr. Giroux has been a great guide for my work here on WARN and ChaunceyDeVega.com. I am Padawan. He is Master Yoda. Our conversation is instructive, open, and honest because of that fact. In this episode, I als...
Jun 04, 2015•1 hr 44 min
Leonce Gaiter is the guest on this installment of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show . Leonce is the author of I Dreamt I Was in Heaven: The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang . He is a straight shooter and a real talker. This is a great and honest conversation where Chauncey and Leonce have a real salon. There is no agenda or prepared set of questions in the conversation between Leonce and Chauncey: this is spontaneous, honest, and direct truth-telling without a filter. We call this "gro...
May 28, 2015•1 hr 51 min
Historian David Krugler is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . David is the author of the new book 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back . Dr. Krugler's work is an exciting intervention against a narrative of African-American passivity in the face of white racial pogroms and other violence in the post World War One era. Black America has used a range of means to resist white supremacy. "Non-violence" has come to dominate public memory abo...
May 21, 2015•2 hr 6 min
Robert Neer is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is a historian at Columbia University and the author of Napalm: An American Biography . Robert's work is a incisive and unique example of the history of objects and how that type of social history can illuminate broader questions of politics, life, and society. Napalm: An American Biography is more than the history of a horrific weapon: it is an insight into American war fighting, inventions, and foreign affairs. Dr...
May 14, 2015•1 hr 26 min
Joe McKinney is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . He is the author of such popular zombie horror books as Dead City , Apocalypse of the Dead , Flesh Eaters and The Zombie King . Mr. McKinney is also a police officer in San Antonio, Texas with expertise in disaster and emergency management. Joe's professional police expertise and mastery of the zombie horror genre make his work uniquely exciting and compelling. This makes for a great conversation as Chauncey and Joe d...
May 07, 2015•1 hr 54 min
This special episode of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show features two conversations from Chicago's 2015 Comic and Entertainment Expo. The first conversation is with Max Brooks. He is the author of the zombie tome and landmark work World War Z . His most recent project is the graphic novel The Harlem Hellfighters . It explores the history of one of America's most storied combat units and how their struggle for dignity and honor in the face of Jim and Jane Crow America is one of the m...
Apr 27, 2015•38 min
