Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-28
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 104
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Mia Wong discussed Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz. Also mentioned: The Free People's Village by Sim Kern.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Free People's Village
The Free People's Village is a speculative fiction novel by author Sim Kern.
Recommended“Their latest novel, The Free People's Village, is available now. So go to your local bookstore and order it and support a voice that I believe we all need in our zeitgeist right now.”
Where to get it
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Sweetness and Power
Discussed“And there's a very very famous a sort of classic study of sugar and slavery is uh Sydney W. amidst his sweetness and power which is a fundamental tax in a lot of sort of uh I don't know a lot of the sort of fields around the study of slavery”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Free People's Village
“So, I actually had a book come out about a month ago called The Free People's Village, and it is relevant to this topic. It's um a very leftist book.”
Passing Little Red Book
“Most cocoa collectives aren't actually like workers collect like aren't actually co-ops. No people's republic of chocolate farmers. I'm sure they're all reciting the little red book.”