{"id":57872,"date":"2019-04-05T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57872"},"modified":"2019-04-05T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:17:33","slug":"collapsing-the-ethno-state-a-conversation-with-keri-leigh-merritt-its-going-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57872","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing the Ethno-State: A Conversation with Keri Leigh Merritt It\u2019s Going Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/collapsing-the-ethno-state-a-conversation-with-keri-leigh-merritt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Collapsing the Ethno-State: A Conversation with Keri Leigh Merritt<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u2019s Going Down<\/a><br \/>\n2019-03-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeriLeighMerrit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Keri Leigh Merritt<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Atlanta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/collapsing-the-ethno-state-a-conversation-with-keri-leigh-merritt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" title=\"gun\" src=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-1068x649.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-1068x649.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-696x423.jpg 696w, https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-691x420.jpg 691w, https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun-600x365.jpg 600w, https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gun.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this episode of the <em>It\u2019s Going Down<\/em> podcast, we caught up with historian and author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeriLeighMerrit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keri Leigh Merritt<\/a> out of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlanta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta, Georgia<\/a>. Merritt is the author of both the 2017 book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/masterless-men\/4DA0CAD8D061BD3681AB01EFF24D6D44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery<\/em><\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antebellum_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antebellum South<\/a> as well as the new essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/contingentmag.org\/2019\/03\/03\/war-happens-in-dark-places-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">War Happens in Dark Places, Too<\/a>.\u201d Merritt\u2019s work focuses on labor history, slavery, and class tensions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South<\/a>, both before and after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil war<\/a> and the research work that she is producing, a long with a new wave of historians, is reshaping how we view the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confederacy<\/a>, its collapse, and also whites supremacy within the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast (01:06:58) <a href=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/?powerpress_pinw=164474-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Download the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/ia601403.us.archive.org\/13\/items\/masterless\/masterless.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collapsing the Ethno-State: A Conversation with Keri Leigh Merritt It\u2019s Going Down 2019-03-27 Keri Leigh Merritt Atlanta, Georgia On this episode of the It\u2019s Going Down podcast, we caught up with historian and author Keri Leigh Merritt out of Atlanta, Georgia. Merritt is the author of both the 2017 book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,13743,8,6940,20],"tags":[29683,29684],"class_list":["post-57872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-its-going-down","tag-keri-leigh-merritt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57873,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57872\/revisions\/57873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}