Introduction

In this episode we move through Paul Butler's theorization of the chokehold and give a fast and dirty summation of the War on Drugs, the militarization of the police, and the consequences of contemporary policing. This draws from my time as a student of Dawn Dow and Gretchen Purser and my study of …

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…

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…