Nov 24, 2017
Volney
Gay is the guest on this week's episode of The
Chauncey DeVega Show. He is a professor of religious studies,
psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University and author of
the new book On the Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden
Face of American Slavery.
During this week's episode
of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Volney and Chauncey
discuss how black chattel slavery was pleasurable for white people,
anti-black violence throughout American history, the psychology of
white supremacy, and white racial paranoia thinking. Volney also
explains how anti-black violence helps to constitute Whiteness and
the power of sadism together with racism in Donald Trump's appeal
to his supporters.
This Thanksgiving week's episode
also features some bonus content that can be heard at the end of
the show. Gabriel
Mendes stops by the virtual bar and salon to discuss his
new book Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue
Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry. Gabriel
shares some hidden history about how Dr. Fredric Wertham --who is
most famous for his campaign against comic books--worked with the
great Richard Wright to make mental health services more accessible
to the residents of Harlem during the 1940s.
In this week's episode, Chauncey
DeVega explains why right-wing Christians like Roy Moore prey on
young girls and how this is connected to the so-called "purity"
movement where fathers take a vow to protect their young daughters'
virginity. And reflecting on the real meaning of Thanksgiving,
Chauncey also shares Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages (Winter
1811-12) about the imminent threat posed by white Americans to
First Nations people.