THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 99: White Reconstruction w/ Professor Dylan Rodríquez

In this episode we speak with professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Dylan Rodríquez.  I came across professor Rodríquez's work through a mutual friend and really appreciated a lot of what professor Dylan has to say to about state of things in this country.  The role of empire and capitalism, and of course we discussed his current book "White Reconstruction: Domestic WArfare and the Logics of Genocide" and his previous work, "Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide and the Filipino Condition".     About 'White Reconstruction':   We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts—from Freedmen’s Bureau documents and the “Join LAPD” hiring campaign to Barry Goldwater’s hidden tattoo and the Pelican Bay prison strike—Dylan Rodríguez counter-narrates the long “post–civil rights” half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and “multiculturalist white supremacy.” Throughout White Reconstruction, Rodríguez considers how the creative, imaginative, speculative collective labor of abolitionist praxis can displace and potentially destroy the ascendancy of White Being and Civilization in order to create possibilities for insurgent thriving.   You can find Professor Rodríquez's, 'White Reconstruction' here: http://www.fordhampress.com/9780823289387/white-reconstruction/   Professor Rodríquez's previous work, 'Suspended Apocalypse' here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/suspended-apocalypse   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out.  We appreciate each and everyone of you.  If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!    Become a patron now : https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland   Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Medium: https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/they-dont-really-care-about-us-e2f1703ca39e