134 - Dr. Eric Porter, A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport

August 11, 2024 00:48:26
134 - Dr. Eric Porter, A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport
History of California Podcast
134 - Dr. Eric Porter, A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport

Aug 11 2024 | 00:48:26

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Show Notes

Eric Porter is Professor of History, History of Consciousness, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where he is also affiliated with the Music and Latin American and Latina/o Studies departments. He previously taught in the American Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz as well as at the University of New Mexico and the University of Nevada, Reno. His research and teaching interests include Black cultural and intellectual history, US cultural history, jazz and improvisation studies, urban studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Among his previous books are two University of California Press publications: What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists (2002), winner of an American Book Award, and, with the photographer Lewis Watts, New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition (2013). The subject of our conversation today is his new book, A People's History of SFO, which is a fascinating look at the complicated history of San Francisco's airport using an ethnic studies lens, an environmental lens, and a labor lens. 

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