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Average audio length:
64 minutes
English
United States
12 episodes
since June 21, 2020
episodic

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Starting with Trump's failure to definitively repudiate the Proud Boys, I make the case Trump merely has a strategic, mutually beneficial, and politically expeditious relationship with White Nationalists. This fine distinction matters because it allows us to remember that Trump's eventual departure…

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Spoiler alert! Here I offer a few bits on why I hated Antebellum. Go check it out and make your own call! Additionally, I share seven maxims I've used in teaching my student how to think through our own @BlackAt Instagram page. 
Here I tackle 9/11 posts that depicted first responders at Ground Zero and contrasted them with images of BLM protesters this summer. They were captioned with "You said you'd never forget...but I guess you did". Additionally, I dissect the recent Medium article written by now former George Washingt…
Here I offer some more personal takes on the deaths of Jacob Blake and Chadwick Boseman from the vantage point of bell hooks' (she only writes it in lowercase) "Killing Rage: Ending Racism".
The first episode of season 2! Here I offer a brief catch up on what has happened since season 1 and where season 2 is headed. Next, I look at a picture posted by activist and cultural critic Shaun King and comment on the insecurity that underlies White supremacy. Finally, I look at a video from th…

On Antiracism

Season Finale! Here I offer some thoughts on "hot topics" surrounding antiracism including the Oppression Olympics, Cancel Culture, and the place of education. Additionally, I walk through some of George Yancy's theorization of un-suturing and tarrying, making connections between Yancy's ideas and …
This is a cut from the synchronous class (7.15.20) where I walk through the a piece I wrote with Mary Cannito-Coville and Dalia Rodriguez on fear and the death of Trayvon Martin. 
Here I return to Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's From #BLACKLIVESMATTER to Black Liberation in order to lay some historical ground work for understanding the present quest for Black freedom. Here we think through Obama's cautious and ambiguous approach to race and Blackness  and the emergence of BLM…
Here I think through some of the pitfalls of our common uses of both bias and privilege. Two discourses that sit at the forefront of how we talk about racism. Here I turn to the work of Jennifer Eberhardt to pivot our conversation of bias away from a narrow consideration of cognitive function and t…
This episode builds on episode 2 and includes a cut from our last class (7.1.20). Here I dive into the work of both Taylor and Wang, looking at the genealogy of policing from the slave patrol through the War on Terror. We focus on the cyclical racialization of crime and criminalization of race; the…
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