Ep. 217: David Blight Explains How The Wisdom of Frederick Douglass Can Help to Save American Democracy

David Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. He is also the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Professor Blight is the author of many books including his newest Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

Professor Blight is also a contributing writer for such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe. 

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Professor Blight explains how the wisdom and example of Frederick Douglass's life can help save American democracy in the Age of Trump, separating the myth and legend of Frederick Douglass from the real man, and how studying the Black Freedom Struggle and the color line can help us to better understand how the United States of today came to be.

On this week's podcast Chauncey reflects on the many interesting happenings in one recent day and what they tell us about our shared humanity and the horrible death--and the Trump regime's mocking and evil response to it--of a seven-year-old child from Guatemala who recently was stolen away from her family and this world while in the custody of the United States Border Patrol.

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW 

• David Blight homepage
• The death of Jakelin Caal Maquin: "Mission accomplished" for the Trump deterrence agenda?
• We Are Governed By Monsters Now
• There Is a Human Rights Disaster on the Border. The Worst Is Yet to Come.
• A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis
• Michael Flynn sentencing postponed after judge issues blistering rebuke
• Trump Foundation agrees to dissolve under a judge's supervision as New York state accuses family of running slush fund for Trump's business interest and political plans 
• Russian propagandists targeted African Americans to influence 2016 US election
• Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
• The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
• How spray-on hair does (and doesn’t) work 

IF YOU ENJOYED THIS WEEK'S SHOW YOU MAY LIKE THESE EPISODES OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW AS WELL

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Ep. 189: Dr. Mark Goulston on Maintaining Our Emotional Well-being and Fighting Self-Sabotage

Ep. 181: Daina Berry Explains How Black Slaves were the Human Gold That Built American Empire

Ep. 163: Anti-Black Violence, Whiteness, and the Pleasures of Owning People

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