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Apr 2025
1h 36m

Black Power, Cold War w/ Aziz Rana

Daniel Denvir
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Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the third in what is now a four-part series, looks at how black movements responded as the Vietnam War and the limits of formal civil rights victories combined to explode the Cold War’s contradictions.

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