"Off the Shelf: Revolutionary Readings in Times of Crisis" is a podcast series featuring in-depth conversations with Black scholars on the University of Illinois campus and beyond. Each episode explores books and scholars they recommend we take “off the shelf” to help us understand these revolutionary times and creative agendas for the here and now. Hosted by Dr. Augustus Wood, a scholar of political economy and gentrification, labor, and social movements in late 20th and early 21st century African American urban history.
Off the Shelf: Revolutionary Readings in Times of Crisis
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"Off the Shelf: Revolutionary Readings in Times of Crisis" is a podcast series featuring in-depth conversations with Black scholars on the University of Illinois campus and beyond. Each episode explores books and scholars they recommend we take “off the shelf” to help us understand these revolutionary times and creative agendas for the here and now. Hosted by Dr. Augustus Wood, a scholar of political economy and gentrification, labor, and social movements in late 20th and early 21st century African American urban history.
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Recent Episodes
March 22, 2024
S4, Episode 2: David Walton on the Past, Present, and Future of Black Studies
<p> In this episode, we hear from guest <b>David Walton</b>,<b> </b>history professor and founding director of the Global Black Studies program at Western Carolina University. Walton takes the listener back to his childhood, when he developed an interest in reading foundational works by public intellectuals like Malcolm X, Bobby Seale, and Huey Newton. After stints with teaching and military service, Walton returned to those readings and dug deeper into histories both global and local— even discovering connections among his own family—as he completed dual PhD degrees. <br/><br/><a href='https://hri.illinois.edu/shelf-podcast/s4-episode-2'>Episode web page and show notes</a></p>
October 26, 2023
S4, Episode 1: A Conversation with Historian of the Working People Naomi R Williams
<p><b><em>“Centering the voice of working people is so important to the work that I do.” -Dr. Williams<br/><br/></em></b>In this episode, host <b>Augustus Wood</b> talks to Labor Studies professor—and self-described “historian of the working people”—<b>Naomi R Williams</b> (Rutgers University), whose research in southeast Wisconsin labor history sheds new light on the pivotal role of Black workers in forging and leveraging union solidarity in the 1970s and 80s. Throughout their work, Williams emphasizes the importance of keeping workers' voices at the center—especially those typically missing from the historical narrative.<br/><br/>As Wood says, “Those of us that do this kind of work, we see the people as the engines of history, the living archive.”<br/><br/>Some of the books noted during their conversation include <em>Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South</em> by Robert R. Korstad, <em>Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee</em> by Crystal Moten, and <em>The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century</em> by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta.<br/><br/><a href='https://hri.illinois.edu/shelf-podcast/s4-episode-1'>View the episode web page and transcript</a></p>
November 1, 2022
S3, Episode 2: Bill Fletcher Jr. on Strategies for Successful Organizing
<p>In the this episode, host <b>Augustus Wood</b> talks to legendary writer, scholar, and trade unionist <b>Bill Fletcher Jr. </b>They cover Fletcher’s storied life from his early years as a teen activist and then college, labor organizing, and leadership in the Black Radical Congress, among other experiences. Today, Fletcher is a frequent columnist and contributor to a number of media outlets, speaking on social justice, labor, and electoral and international politics. <br/><br/><a href='https://hri.illinois.edu/shelf-podcast/s3-episode-2'><b>View show notes and transcript</b></a></p>
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