Introduction

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…