Aug 25, 2017
Timothy Snyder is the first guest
on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.
He is an award-winning professor of history at Yale University and
author of numerous books including Bloodlands: Europe
Between Hitler and Stalin as well as Black
Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. His newest book
is On
Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth
Century.
This is Professor Snyder's second
appearance on The Chauncey DeVega Show. His first
conversation with Chauncey DeVega about Trump's election and the
potential for a coup and a fascist regime was read several million
times at the online magazine
Salon and also shared almost 300,000 times on
Facebook. That episode of the podcast was also
listened to and downloaded more than 20,000
times.
During this episode of The
Chauncey DeVega Show, Professor Snyder and Chauncey evaluate
the health of American democracy after eight months of Trump as
president, discuss how the recent white supremacist terrorism in
Charlottesville could potentially fit into Trump's plans for
authoritarianism in America, if Charlottesville was a "Reichstag
Fire" moment, and how the rule of law is threatened by Trump's
regime.
Professor Snyder also explains the
historical antecedents and disturbing echoes of the white
supremacist and neo-Nazi hate festival in Charlottesville relative
to their origins in Nazi Germany.
This week's podcast also
features Professor Cedric
Johnson.
He is the author/editor of several
books including Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black
Power and the Making of African American Politics, as well
as The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late
Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans.
Dr. Johnson is also an Associate
Professor in the Department of Political Science and
African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at
Chicago.
During this week's episode
of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Cedric and Chauncey
discuss the new movie Detroit, the accuracy of its
depiction of that city's racial rebellion, how the civil rights
movement is presented by Hollywood, and share some thoughts on the
problematic racial essentializing politics of the much discussed
and highly praised film Get Out.
On this week's show, Chauncey DeVega
demands accountability from those people who are in denial about
the threat posed by Donald Trump, shares a story about filming a
documentary, and explains how today's black conservatives are a
modern day version of the black people who helped the Ku Klux Klan
in the American South after slavery.