Month: May 2021

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New Books in Native American Studies - Katrina Phillips, “Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History” (UNC Press, 2021)

As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. Locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) reveals how they constituted what Dr. Katrina Phillips calls "salvage tourism.” Across time, Phillips argues, tourism, nostalgia, and authenticity converge in the creation of salvage tourism, which blends tourism and history, contestations over citizenship, identity, belonging, and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape, entertainment, and economic development.

Dr. Katrina Phillips is assistant professor of American Indian history at Macalester College.

Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a PhD candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Patrick Spero, “Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776” (Norton, 2018)

Boston, Philadelphia, London...Fort Loudon, PA. One of these places is not usually included when imagining the crucial scenes of the American Revolution. In Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 (W. W. Norton, 2018), Dr. Patrick Spero argues that the early West was just as important to the unfolding American Revolution as events in imperial centers and colonial cities. Spero, Librarian and Director for the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, tells the story of the imperial crisis through several Western characters: Ottawa and pan-Indigenous leader Pontiac, Irish trader and diplomat George Croghan, and settlers James and William Smith, among others. In this narrative driven book, Spero describes how Smith and the so-called Black Boys articulated fears, rooted in anti-Native racism, that predated and motivated arguments for independence on the eastern seaboard years before anyone threw tea in Boston Harbor. When viewed from the West, the American Revolution seems less noble and high minded, and far dirtier, more violent, and perhaps more revolutionary, than the story most Americans know.

Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

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The NewsWorthy - Ceasefire Deal, Jobless Claims Drop & Princess Diana Deceived- Friday, May 21st, 2021

The news to know for Friday, May 21st, 2021!

What to know about a now-approved ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and the U.S. response to it.

Also, an encouraging sign for the U.S. economy: new unemployment claims dropped to a pandemic low.

Plus, what to expect from this year's hurricane season, why the BBC is apologizing to the late Princess Diana, and a sequel is coming to a cult classic from the 1990s.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Israel and Hamas Ceasefire: NY Times, WSJ, AP, NPR, NBC News

Biden Signs Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill: NPR, Reuters, ABC News, Fox News

New Jobless Claims Hit Pandemic Low: WSJ, CNBC, AP, WaPo, Labor Dept.

NOAA Hurricane Season Prediction: WaPo, NY Times, NPR, NOAA

BBC Apologizes for Princess Diana Interview: BBC, Guardian, WaPo, Fox News

Princes Harry and William Respond to BBC Investigation: NBC News, Variety, ABC News

Proposal for Reporting Large Crypto Transfers: CNET, Bloomberg, WSJ, Reuters, Treasury Dept.

Facebook’s “Live Shopping Fridays”: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, WWD, Facebook

NBA Playoffs Start Saturday: CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, NBA

Hocus Pocus 2: Variety, CNN, Deadline, USA Today

Feel Good Friday: Girl Scouts Turn Bottle Caps into Park Benches: Daily Herald, The Week

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What A Day - The NBA Playoffs In Context

The NBA playoffs begin tomorrow after a season that's played out during a global pandemic and a mass movement against police brutality. To discuss this season in context, we're joined by the host of Takeline and ALL CAPS NBA, Jason Concepcion.

Israel's security cabinet voted to accept a ceasefire that a Hamas official said would start at 2 a.m. local time on Friday. The full terms of the agreement aren't clear just yet, but this comes after mounting international pressure and a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

And in headlines: police body cam footage released in the violent arrest of Ronald Greene in 2019, two scandals for Andrew Cuomo, and Twitter will open its public verification program.


Show Notes:

Al-Jazeera: Live Updates on the Israel-Palestine Conflict – https://bit.ly/3f6RtZX


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The Daily Signal - Israeli Explains What Life Is Like in Her Country Right Now

Yael Eckstein and her family, who live in Israel, have heard rockets explode day and night for nearly two weeks. 

Eckstein, who leads the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, lives near Jerusalem with her husband and four children. She says the most recent Hamas-Israel conflict has affected her family, and all of Israel, in a deeply personal way. 

“In the past 10 days, we have been living in our bomb shelters," Eckstein says, adding: “Just today alone, for an hour straight, there were just rocket barrages on Israeli cities.” 

As president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Eckstein oversees a team that is providing humanitarian aid to Israelis. The organization has set up mobile bomb shelters across the country. 

Eckstein joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what life is like in Israel now and what America and the world should know about the conflict with Hamas. 


*Please note that the interview with Eckstein was recorded before Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire.


We also cover these stories: 

  • The House of Representatives passes a $1.9 billion bill to improve security at the Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot. 
  • Nearly half of the states reject "enhanced" federal unemployment benefits in an effort to encourage their residents to return to work. 
  • Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, signs into law a measure preventing school officials from forcing students and staff to wear any type of mask or face covering while in school.

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Opening Arguments - OA492: Court Locks Mississippi Citizens Out of Amending Their Own Constitution

This is not a misleading clickbait headline, this is literally what happened. Mississippi citizens passed a medical marijuana amendment and textualist conservative judges overruled it with a reading of the law so asinine that it rendered constitutional amendments by citizens impossible going forward. You have to hear the breakdown to even believe it. In the second segment, Andrew delivers some more real bad news out of the US Supreme Court. You likely heard about the abortion case, but Edwards v. Vannoy is a decision you didn't hear about that does not bode well.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How Single-Parent Families Navigate Additional Pandemic Challenges

There’s not another country in the world with more kids living in single-parent households than in the U.S. And for a lot of those families, the pandemic has been especially challenging. Reset brings on a researcher — and opens the phones to listeners — to learn more about how the pandemic is overloading single-parent households and what can be done to support these families. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast. And please give us a rating, it helps other listeners find us. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
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Pod Save America - “Capitol-storming police-haters.”

Republican leaders reject a bipartisan commission created to investigate their own attempted murder on 1/6, Democrats finish a new analysis of why they nearly lost the House in 2020, and NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray talks to Jon Favreau about the news that New York State has launched a criminal investigation into the Trump organization, as well as what’s ahead for the Supreme Court.




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Consider This from NPR - The CDC’s Mask Guidance Created Confusion. Could It Also Boost Vaccinations?

A week ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance that vaccinated people can safely return to most activities without wearing a mask. But the announcement caught many local officials and business leaders off guard. One of them was Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas.

NPR's Andrea Hsu reports on the confusion among businesses, which now have to decide what to do on their own.

NPR's Yuki Noguchi interviewed behavioral scientists about whether the new guidance may encourage more people to get vaccinated.

Additional reporting in this episode came from NPR's Allison Aubrey and Pien Huang.

Read more about what the new CDC guidance means for unvaccinated kids — and their parents.

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Science In Action - Robot revolution

A brain-computer interface allows a severely paralysed patient not only to move and use a robotic arm, but also to feel the sensations as the mechanical hand clasps objects . We hear from Jennifer Collinger at Pittsburgh University’s Rehab Neural Engineering Labs. And Nathan Copeland, who has been controlling the robotic arm with his thoughts via a series of brain implants.

Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina tells us about the development of a multi-component vaccine that would be effective not just against the current coronavirus outbreak and its variants, but also future outbreaks from SARS-like coronaviruses that we don’t even know about yet.

Blood clots, thromboses, have been a problem for a small number of people following Covid vaccination Paul Knöbl, and a team of medics in Vienna have worked out the link between vaccination and clot development. They now have a method to treat such clots – so they should not be fatal.

And how did fungi and plants come to live together? Symbiotic relationships between the two are a key component of the evolution of life. Melanie Rich of the University of Toulouse has been looking at the present day genetic markers which allowed plants and fungi to help each other as they first colonised land millions of years ago.

(Image: Artificial tactile perception allows the brain-computer interface user to transfer objects with a robotic arm at twice the speed of doing it without the feedback. Credit: UPMC/Pitt Health Sciences Media Relations)

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield