The Chauncey DeVega Show

Adilifu Nama , Professor of African-American Studies at Loyola Marymount University and expert on race and popular culture is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Adilifu has written several books including  Black Space  and  Super Black . He has also written a forthcoming book on the films of Quentin Tarantino. In this fun episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , Adilifu an...

David Greven , professor and expert on  Star Trek  is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . David is the author of numerous books including  Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek: Allegories of Desire in the Television Series and Films . He is also Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina. In this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show ,...

Journalist and political analyst Paul Rosenberg is the guest on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Paul is a contributing writer to news outlets and websites such as  Salon.com ,  Alternet , and  Al Jazeera . He is also the senior editor of  Random Length News . Mr. Rosenberg also runs the website Merge Left. Paul is a sharp and amazingly insightful observer of American (and global...

For this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , I had the great opportunity to talk with  Mr. Frank Schaeffer . He is a frequent guest on MSNBC, Free Speech TV, and many other radio and TV outlets. Mr. Schaeffer possesses gifted insight on the rise of the Christian Right in the United States. As a young man, he was there as his father, along with the likes of Jerry Falwell, laid the groundwork for...

For this, the second episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show  of 2015, I chatted with Dr. Mickey Hess about the life and times of the legendary hip-hop artist Ol' Dirty Bastard. Mickey took on the challenge of tracking down Dirty's family, friends, and fellow members of the seminal hip-hop group The Wu-Tang Clan for his new book  The Dirty Version: On Stage, In the Studio, and In the Streets With Ol'...

To begin 2015,  The Chauncey DeVega Show  will feature two shows focusing on hip hop music.  Our first guest for 2015 is  Jack Hamilton . He is a contributing writer at  Slate  magazine, and also an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. I am a member of the hip hop generation. My own work focuses on race, hip hop, and the politics of popular cultu...

For this, the sixth episode of the third season of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , I had the good fortune to chat with Tim Wise. Tim is one of the United States' leading anti-racist educators and activists. He is the author of numerous books including  Dear White America ,  White Like Me ,  Speaking Treason Fluently , and  Between Barack and a Hard Place . In addition to speaking engagements stateside...

For this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , I had the great opportunity to talk with Jason Colavito. Our conversation is a real treat and gem for ghetto nerds and those others who are interested in fringe history and other types of "alternative" knowledge systems. Jason is an expert skeptic whose work appears on his eponymous website  jasoncolavito.com . He is the author of numerous books. Jas...

The police killer of Eric Garner is free. The police killer of Michael Brown is free. The police killer of 12-year-old Tamir Rice was a documented incompetent and a member of a racist Cleveland police department: he too is still free. Even more grotesque--American police departments do not keep accurate documents noting how many people they actually kill in a given year. America may not have the "...

The imminent decision by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri about whether to (not) indict Darren Wilson for his choice to kill an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown looms over Ferguson, Missouri. The grand jury will likely let Wilson go free without consequence for his wicked deeds. The tension in Ferguson--and around the United States--about the grand jury's decision is not an anxiety about the...

I have written extensively about the killing of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. However, like most of the cultural critics, analysts, and interested public, I have not had an opportunity to actually go to Ferguson, and to speak with the members of the under siege, bullied, and harassed by the thuggish white police, African-American community that resides there. For those of u...

For this, the first episode of Season 3 of  The Chauncey DeVega Show , I decided to reach back to the first guest on the first episode of the podcast series from almost two years ago. Bill the Lizard is my heterosexual life partner (to quote Kevin Smith). He is also a great friend of the site and possesses a masterful intelligence and knowledge of all things  Star Wars .  In our first conversation...