Rememory: Reassembling the Archive with Adesuwa Agbonile
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This edition we have a guest curation from Adesuwa Agbonile, host of Backlash podcast.
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🎧 #AudioForAction Guest Curator: Adesuwa Agbonile
Rememory: Reassembling the Archive
History is recorded by conquerors - and the archive created by those interested in domination is often riddled with gaps, half-truths, and oppressive tropes. The stories in this curation place history back in the hands of the people. They return to the historical archive, re-examine it with a critical eye, and pull out new truths pertinent to our present day. These stories use our past to teach us how to build a blueprint for our future.
-Adesuwa Agbonile, Host of Backlash
Follow Adesuwa on Instagram @adesuwaah or on LinkedIn.
The Africas vs. America, Mother’s Day
Mike Africa Jr.'s deep involvement in this podcast makes this show stand out - the creators take oral history and family memory seriously, adding them to the archive.
Backlash, The Problem with Busing
The riots against busing at Boston's all-white high schools are well documented - the riots at all-black high schools, much less so. This episode takes another look at Boston's busing crisis, putting Boston's Black activists at the center.
Teaching Texas, The More Sex You Teach…
The story of how one conservative Christian couple in a small Texas town exerted a huge amount of influence over America's textbooks for decades.
Black History, For Real, Dear Mama
This show takes reassembling the archive to a whole new level, using techniques that slide up against fiction writing to paint compelling portraits of historical figures.
Scene on Radio: Capitalism, BC: Before Capitalism
Even huge, seemingly unbreakable things like capitalism had to be created - this show breaks down how that happened, and hints at what could come next.
🚨 Calls to Action
Curated by Adesuwa
Read: Sadiya Hartman's “Venus in Two Acts,” Toni Morrison's Essay on Rememory, Hortense Spiller's "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe.”
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