Jun 30, 2016
This week's episode of The Chauncey
DeVega Show features Alondra Nelson. She is a
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Columbia University
and author of the new book,
The Social Life of DNA.
In this week's installment of the podcast, Dr. Nelson and Chauncey
talk about DNA, the body, race, and how many African-Americans are
using emerging technologies to trace their "roots" across the Black
Atlantic. Chauncey and Alondra also discuss how social fictions
such as "race" are reproduced in the popular imagination by human
zoos such as The Maury Povich Show and the surprising connections
between "welfare reform" and the rise of DNA-based ancestry and
paternity testing.
Chauncey updates folks on his health travails and recent physical,
and complains about the new Independence Day: Resurgence
movie. Chauncey also highlights how Archie Bunker is
the present-past of the Trump movement and the GOP, calls out
racism against Elizabeth Warren, and cuts a promo on the Right-wing
sex freaks Alex Jones and Roger Stone.