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Podcast 003 Show Notes
This is a full listing of everything used to create the Why I Hate Hamilton episode, for those who want further reading. The episode can be found here.
Negrophilia and Get Out
- The Philosophy of Get Out – Wisecrack Edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gQP4ffowCY
West Wing, Sorkin and Their Influence
- There Is No Better Encapsulation Of Contemporary White Liberalism Than ‘The West Wing.’ That’s A Bad Thing by Michael Darer: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/there-is-no-better-encapsulation-of-contemporary-white_us_584a59aae4b0151082221a0c
- Beyond Josh Lyman Politics: How The West Wing Miseducated My Political Generation by Pete Davis: http://hlrecord.org/2015/09/beyond-josh-lyman-politics-how-the-west-wing-miseducated-my-political-generation/
- How Liberals Fell In Love With The West Wing by Luke Savage: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-west-wing
- Chapo Trap House teaser for Ep. 101 Aaron Dorkchin: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-101-teaser-aaron-dorkchin
- Aaron Sorkin Versus Reality by Alex Pareene: http://www.salon.com/2012/07/19/aaron_sorkin_versus_frivolity/
West Wing, The Jackal:
- J. Cregg Does The Jackal – West Wing S1E18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7H_L5cYkg8
Neoliberalism
- Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems by George Monbiot: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot
- Thoughtless and Limitless: Challenging the Violent Psychology of Neoliberalism. A podcast interview with Henry Giroux about damaging effects of neoliberalism: https://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/860henrygiroux
Obama’s Neoliberalism and Bootstraps Lectures
- No More Lectures: What President Obama Can Do for Black America by Ron Daniels: http://ibw21.org/vantage-point/no-more-lectures-what-president-obama-can-do-for-black-america/
- Obama to NAACP: Blacks must seize responsibility by Susan Page: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5376339&page=1
- Obama’s unfortunate remarks on people’s misfortunes by Michelle Singletary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/michelle-singletary-obamas-unfortunate-remarks-on-peoples-misfortunes/2011/09/27/gIQAXpau2K_story.html?utm_term=.5ed50b60dcb1
- To Critics, Obama’s Scolding Tone With Black Audiences is Getting Old by Vanessa Williams: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/to-critics-obamas-scolding-tone-with-black-audiences-is-getting-old/2013/05/20/4b267352-c191-11e2-bfdb-3886a561c1ff_story.html?utm_term=.d601fd7047f7
- The First Couple’s Post-Racial Bootstraps Myth by Aura Bogado: https://www.thenation.com/article/first-couples-post-racial-bootstraps-myth/
- WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap by Robert Johnson: http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6
Black Public Intellectuals and Diversity/Representation Matters Liberalism
- What Are the Drums Saying, Booker? By Adolph Reed, Jr.: https://libcom.org/files/ReedWhatAreTheDrumsSayingBooker.pdf
- Let Them Eat Diversity by Walter Benn: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/01/let-them-eat-diversity/
Hamilton Critiques:
- Hamilton: The Musical: Black Actors Dress Up Like Slave Traders…And It’s Not Halloween by Ishmael Reed: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/21/hamilton-the-musical-black-actors-dress-up-like-slave-tradersand-its-not-halloween/
- Hamilton And The Negro Whisperers: Miranda’s Consumer Fraud by Ishmael Reed: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/hamilton-and-the-negro-whisperers-mirandas-consumer-fraud/
- Let’s Not Pretend That ‘Hamilton’ Is History by Nancy Isenberg: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/03/17/lets-not-pretend-that-hamilton-is-history/ideas/nexus/
- Race-Conscious Casting And The Erasure Of The Black Past In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton by Lyra Monteiro: https://www.academia.edu/21739155/Race-Conscious_Casting_and_the_Erasure_of_the_Black_Past_in_Lin-Manuel_Mirandas_Hamilton
- What Hamilton Forgets About Hamilton by Jason Frank And Isaac Kramnick: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/opinion/what-hamilton-forgets-about-alexander-hamilton.Html?_R=0
- Hamilton: “Captain Of The One Percent” by Gerald Horne: http://www.accuracy.org/release/hamilton-captain-of-the-one-percent/
- Wikipedia on Alexander Hamilton And Slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alexander_hamilton_and_slavery
- Somewhere In Between: Alexander Hamilton And Slavery by Michelle DuRoss: https://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/early-america-review/volume-15/hamilton-and-slavery
- A Color-Blind Stockholm Syndrome by Jason Allen: http://ncph.org/history-at-work/a-color-blind-stockholm-syndrome/
- It’s Not Just a Musical by Lyra Monteiro: http://ncph.org/history-at-work/its-not-just-a-musical/
- A Hamilton Skeptic On Why The Show Isn’t As Revolutionary As It Seems by Rebecca Onion: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/04/a_hamilton_critic_on_why_the_musical_isn_t_so_revolutionary.html
- Miranda, Obama, and Hamilton: an Orwellian Menage a Trois for the Neoliberal Age http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/24/miranda-obama-and-hamilton-an-orwellian-menage-a-trois-for-the-neoliberal-age/
- Historians Take On Hamilton by Cassandra Good https://cassandragood.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/historians-take-on-hamilton/
- Hamilton: The Musical: Blacks And The Founding Fathers by Annette Gordon-Reed: http://ncph.org/history-at-work/hamilton-the-musical-blacks-and-the-founding-fathers/
- Why Fans Of Hamilton Should Be Delighted It’s Finally Stirring Criticism by Isaac Butler: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/04/17/historians_are_criticizing_hamilton_and_fans_should_be_thrilled.html
- Why Hamilton Is Not The Revolution You Think It Is by James Mcmaster: http://howlround.com/why-hamilton-is-not-the-revolution-you-think-it-is
Lin Manuel Miranda’s West Wing and Sorkin Obsession
- Lin-Manuel Miranda on Jay Z,The West Wing, and 18 More Things That Influenced Hamilton http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/lin-manuel-mirandas-20-hamilton-influences.html
- A Brief History Of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘West Wing’ Obsession by Joe Reid: http://decider.com/2016/07/20/brief-history-of-lin-manuel-miranda-west-wing/
- Video of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Final Curtain Call to the Theme Song of West Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgy48kJWdcs/
- Video of Hamilton Cast Reenacting Hamilton Scene in Modern Day West Wing Style in the Real White House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mYfsNFtGI
Founders Chic and Hamilton
- Historians And Hamilton: Founders Chic And The Cult Of Personality by Ken Owen: https://earlyamericanists.com/2016/04/21/historians-and-hamilton-founders-chic-and-the-cult-of-personality/
- Founders Chic by H.W. Brands: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/09/founders-chic/302773/
- Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton Is Not Throwing Away Its Second Shot by Andrew M. Schocket: http://www.processhistory.org/schocket-chernow/
Conservatives Who Love Hamilton and Liberals Who Love Those Conservatives
· Obama: ‘Hamilton’ Is the Only Thing Dick Cheney and I Agree On by Jordan Fabian: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/272964-obama-hamilton-is-the-only-thing-dick-cheney-and-i-agree-on
· Why ‘Hamilton’ Has Heat by Erik Piepenburg: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/06/theater/20150806-hamilton-broadway.html?_r=0
- Why Hamilton Matters by Jeremy McCarter: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jeremymccarter/saving-america-from-itself?utm_term=.pplkbqdgvv#.md1mb2qmew
- http://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2016/04/06/wait-what-this-historians-take-on-alexander-hamilton-is-breathtakingly-ignorant/
- Fred Schwarz from National Review on Hamilton: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/415962/two-views-hamilton-fred-schwarz
- Richard Brookhiser from National Review on Hamilton: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415767/funky-founder-richard-brookhiser
- David Marcus at the Federalis, Hamilton Haters Are Why We Can’t Have Nice Thingst: http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/07/hamilton-haters-are-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/
- ‘Hamilton’ Review: The Revolution Moves Uptown by Terry Teachout: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hamilton-review-the-revolution-moves-uptown-1438907400
- You Should Be Terrified That People Who Like Hamilton Run Out Country: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/07/you-should-be-terrified-that-people-who-like-hamilton-run-our-country
- The Exhausting and Useless Accusations of Racism “Hamilton” [sic] by John McWhorter: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/16/the-exhausting-and-useless-accusations-of-racism-against-hamilton
Hamilton Cast Interviews
- Mo Rocca covering Hamilton phenomenon, chock full of neoliberal bootstraps talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wboCdgzLHg
- Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs Talks Thomas Jefferson’s Troubling Legacy by Ashley Ross: http://time.com/4287773/hamilton-daveed-diggs-jefferson/
- George Washington Never Mentions Slavery In Hamilton, But The Actor Who Plays Him Does: Christopher Jackson Had to Reconcile Playing a Slave-Owning Founding Father as a Black Man But He Still Can’t Help Geeking Out Over History by Katey Rich: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/04/christopher-jackson-hamilton-interview
- Rapping A Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda And Others From ‘Hamilton’ Talk History by Rob Weinert-Kendt: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/theater/lin-manuel-miranda-and-others-from-hamilton-talk-history.html