169 - POIR 13

Episode marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language. Content note: racism, gaslighting Recorded a little over a week after George Floyd's death at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, MN (US), this episode touches inexpertly on some of the components of white supremacy. Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 50 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/50-marcel-schwald/) and Page One 51 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/51-filippo-andreatta/). You can read Priyamvada Gopal's Huffington Post article on Black deaths in police custody in the UK here: https://bit.ly/3cIhFpv and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/PriyamvadaGopal. You can read Roxane Gay's New York Times article on racism in the US here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/trump-george-floyd-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rgay. You can listen to Guilaine Kinouani on the podcast Getting Better Acquainted here: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-274-guilaine-kinouani and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/KGuilaine You can read Alicia Liu writing about the limitations of empathy here: https://medium.com/counter-intuition/empathy-is-mostly-useless-998e94f69463 You can read about the 1944 film Gaslight on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film) You can watch Claudia Rankine talking about and reading from her book Citizen on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnq71TlUvo You can read discussion of police abolition in the US and the UK as part of a review by Peter Stäuber of Alex S. Vitale's book The End Of Policing in Counterfire here: https://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/20167-the-end-of-policing-book-review and read an interview with Alex S. Vitale in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alex-vitale-defund-police-interview/ More information about police abolition in the US can be found by following links curated by The Marshall Project here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/3382-police-abolition You can read about the prison abolition movement in the US in Teen Vogue here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-prison-abolition-movement and about the prison abolition movement in the UK in the Independent here: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/big-idea-prison-abolition-social-problems-domestic-violence-a8275636.html You can watch a very interesting discussion on prison abolition and its relationship to policing and the criminalisation of vulnerable communities between Reina Gossett and Dean Spade in four parts on YouTube starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQlW1uJ8uQ Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian Episode recorded: 2nd June, 2020 More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ Book listing: The Making Of Americans by Gertrude Stein (Page One 50) Signifying Nothing from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (Page One 51)