71 - Ralph Leonard - Claiming the Birthright of Humanity [Public Limited Version]

References
Ralph Leonard, a writer for UnHerd:
https://unherd.com/author/ralph-leonard/

See esp: Why are we racialising Beethoven? - The Post (unherd.com)
https://unherd.com/thepost/why-are-we-racialising-beethoven/
and
Stop apologising for cultural appropriation - UnHerd:
https://unherd.com/2020/07/cultural-appropriation-is-progressive-and-anti-racist/

Ralph Leonard, Author at Areo (areomagazine.com)
https://areomagazine.com/author/herrera96/

Ralph Leonard, Author at Uncommon Ground (uncommongroundmedia.com)
https://uncommongroundmedia.com/author/ralphleonard/

C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938)

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

Frederick Starr, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (2013)

Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant | Aeon Essays

María Rosa Menocal The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (2002)

Thomas Pain, The Rights of Man (1791)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1852)

Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher (1760–61)

Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (1899)

Timestamps
01:55 Excerpt from Frantz Fanon. The universality of great culture and literature.
15:30 The historical significance of the American Revolution
26:34 The importance of the Haitian revolution
28:19 Why C.L.R. James is important to Ralph
33:13 The British slave trade and the revolts in the West Indies

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36:47 Why Ralph describes himself as a “libertarian Marxist.”
40:30 The concept of cultural appropriation; cultural mixing in a globalised society; cultural identitarianism; the importance of the outsider’s viewpoint
55:42 The differences between racism in the UK and racism in the US
58:25 The concept of the white working class; what it means to be working class