She weaves together insights on the politics of race and racialization and Black identity while discussing family history, growing up in Oshawa, and her experiences, in academic spaces in Chicago, in Ohio, in Portland, and in Canada. And she's just written a really poignant, profound and powerful book about her journey back home. Debra Thompson or Auntie Deb has been one of my truest friends in this world. This week our guest knows all too well about the need to be a subversive in the academy. Ethel Tungohan, an Associate Professor of Politics at York University. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a commission. Get in touch with Academic Aunties on Twitter at or by e-mail at. Thanks for listening! Get more information, support the show, and read all the transcripts at. The Puzzling Persistence of Racial Inequality in Canada by Keith Banting and Debra Thompson.Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick.A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand.White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack by Peggy McIntosh.Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman.Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman.The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thompson.Debra Thompson ( talks about her poignant, profound and powerful book, The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging, about her journey back home. Then, in the all-new special (11pm), "Heroes of the Long Road Home with Martha Raddatz," Martha introduces viewers to the people whose stories inspired "The Long Road Home.Dr. In the season ender (10pm), the rescuers finally punch through to the stranded platoon eight hours and seven minutes after the first shots were fired, the men of the 1st Cavalry Division are reunited, and must cope with the new realities of the war that has just begun. On Tuesday, Decemat 10pm ET/PT, Nat Geo Channel premiered "Always Dream of Me," the season finale of THE LONG ROAD HOME, immediately followed by a new one-hour special. On Wednesday, Novemat 11pm ET/PT, Nat Geo premiered a half-hour "First Look" special.
Across eight hours, reflecting the exact amount of time the soldiers were pinned down, each one-hour episode highlights a different character's unique journey to understand their heroism and humanity. THE LONG ROAD HOME tells the stories of these courageous soldiers and also of their compatriots involved in the three desperate and deadly rescue missions launched to save them. Robert Miltenberger, a career soldier on the cusp of retirement, who has been stop-lossed for this deployment. Tomas Young, the heroic 24-year-old soldier and later peace activist, who is severely wounded in this battle and Staff Sgt. Shane Aguero, leader of the ambushed men Pfc. Troy Denomy, who leads the rescue convoys into the city following the dramatic ambush of a 1st Cavalry Division Platoon and is a devoted family man with a wife, Gina, and newborn son Lt. Gary Volesky, the battalion commander, who leads a daring rescue operation when the 1st Cavalry Division comes under attack by Iraqi insurgents, and is married to LeAnn Capt.
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The military heroes portrayed in this series include: Lt. Bush's famous "Mission Accomplished" speech, changed the American military's view of Iraq from a peacekeeping mission to a fight against domestic insurgents. The incident, which took place 11 months after President George W. This series follows the action of the battle on two simultaneous fronts - the chaotic, terror-filled streets of Sadr City, where a group of inexperienced young soldiers faces an unexpected and unimaginable attack with bravery they never knew they had, and the homefront at Fort Hood, Texas, where family members, desperate for news of their loved ones and fearing the worst, discover their own courage and determination as they wait for news for 48 hellish hours. Eight Americans made the ultimate sacrifice that day and more than 65 were seriously wounded. Based on Martha Raddatz's book of the same name, THE LONG ROAD HOME is an eight-part scripted series that chronicles the story of Black Sunday, a day during the Iraq War when a small platoon of soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division was ferociously ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, on April 4, 2004.
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