Month: November 2017

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New Books in Native American Studies - Benjamin Madley, “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873” (Yale UP, 2016)

In less than thirty years, California’s Indian population fell from 150,000 to 30,000. In An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (Yale University Press, 2016), Benjamin Madley, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, argues that war or disease can’t explain this population drop. The state and federal government carried out genocide against California Indians between 1846 and 1873. Madley uncovers, in excruciating detail, how government officials created a killing machine that cost at least $1,700,000.

An American Genocide has won many awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, the Charles Redd Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book on the American West, the California Book Award’s Gold Medal for California, and the Heyday Books History Award. The book was also named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, an Indian Country Today Hot List book, and a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title. True West Magazine also named Madley the Best New Western Author of 2016.

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The NewsWorthy - NYC Terror Attack, Open Enrollment & Black Licorice – Wednesday, November 1st, 2017

All the news you need to know for Wednesday, November 1st, 2017!

Today we're talking about the terrorist attack in NYC and lawmakers grilling tech companies.

Plus, what to know about Obamacare, the World Series, iPhone emojis and black licorice.

All that and more - in less than 10 minutes! 

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.

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The Gist - Putting Dr. Seuss on the Couch

Was Dr. Seuss racist? Or did his books just not age well? And what is the appropriate response to a canonical work that seems to be littered with racially charged depictions? Philip Nel takes on all these questions and poses some more of his own in his latest book, Was the Cat in the Hat Black?

In the Spiel, what if the office of the presidency were leveraged for the sake of constant distraction? We are finding out. 

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