Behind the News: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Tom Philpott
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug speaks with Elizabeth Wrigley-Field on race and mortality: years lost to police violence and how many white people would ...
August 14, 2020
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Behind the News: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Tom Philpott
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<div><span><span>Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug speaks with</span><span></span></span><span><span><a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/ewf" rel="nofollow">Elizabeth Wrigley-Field</a><span></span><span></span></span>on race and mortality: years lost to police violence and how many white people would have to die of COVID-19 to equal a “normal” year of black death. (paper </span><a href="https://osf.io/9csa6/" rel="nofollow">here</a><em>, NYT</em><span> article </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/11/opinion/us-coronavirus-black-mortality.html" rel="nofollow">here</a><span>). Then an interview with </span><a href="https://www.tomphilpott.net/about-native" rel="nofollow">Tom Philpott</a><span>, author of </span><em><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/perilous-bounty-9781635573138/" rel="nofollow">Perilous Bounty</a>, </em><span>on the ecological crises facing US agriculture.</span></div>
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