Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast The Invention of Racism
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| Episode 38: Algorithmic Blues: CHAT-GPT Artificial Intelligence Explains Racism | 10 Mar 2023 | 00:22:47 | |
This podcast episode examines how AI (Artificial intelligence), principally CHAT-GPT, challenges faculty and students in higher education by “crowd sourcing” extant digital knowledge and how it defines concepts like racism. Key Words: Racism, Higher Education, White Supremacy, CHAT-GPT, Student Cheating, AI Tools, Calculators, AI Language Models, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), University Faculty, Ethics, Plagiarism, Opinion, Criminal Justice System, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Professor Ngozi Okidegbe, “Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competitiveness, Inclusion, and Innovation” (The U.S. Chamber of Commerce), Coded Bias (2020), Shalini Kantayya, Joy Buolamwini, Algorithmic Justice League, The South East London Girl. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina Notes: 1) Post COVID-19 infections and complications have significantly impacted the delivery of our podcast series. Thanks to our listener-supporters for reaching out; and 2) see the podcast series Disclaimer statement on TIR Podcast Group responsibility.
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| Episode 37: Racist Political Rhetoric as Bloodsport and Human Equality | 23 Oct 2022 | 00:20:47 | |
Episode Description—This podcast episode briefly examines selected examples of public political racist rhetoric leading up to the 2022 U.S. Midterm election season. The episode highlights Alexander Hamilton Stephens’s March 21, 1861 “Cornerstone” speech in order to contextualize contemporary racist political discourse and the idea of fundamental human equality. Key Words: Racism, White Supremacy, Doctrine of White Supremacy, Human Equality, Cornerstone speech, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Confederate States of America (CSA), American Slavery, Midterm Elections, Republican Party, Democratic Party, MAGA, Senator Tuberville, Senator Greene, Councilwoman Martinez, Abrams v. Tuberville, QAnon, Conspiracy Theories, Reparations, Daniel Smith, Crime, Immigrants, Oaxaca, Mexico, Great Replacement Theory, Black Children. Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Racist Speech, Racist Stereotypes, A Compendium of the History of the United States. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina Notes: 1) Post COVID-19 infections and complications have significantly impacted the delivery of our podcast series. Thanks to our listener-supporters for reaching out; and 2) See the podcast series Disclaimer for the statement on TIR Podcast Group responsibility.
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| Episode 36: The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black Women | 01 Jul 2022 | 00:27:10 | |
This podcast episode, “The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black Women,” briefly examines the erasure of the Black woman’s body, highlighting the period of slavery and the case of Pauline (Rabbeneck) of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1845. Key Words: Racism, White Supremacy, Doctrine of White Supremacy, Sexism, Racist Negation, Black Women, Pauline (Rabbeneck), Peter Rabbeneck, New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana Black Codes (Code Noir), Enslaved African Women, Southern Rape Complex, Antebellum Crime and Punishment, Lynching, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemmings, Counterfactual History, Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, Placage, Person of Color, Racial-Gender Hierarchy, gens de couleur libre, Color Gradient, Creole, Content Warning: Sexual Exploitation, Capital Punishment. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 35: The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism | 30 Apr 2022 | 00:29:08 | |
This episode, “The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-Racism,” reexamines three disturbing historical examples of racial violence in the U.S. history (past and recent) in order to offer a working definition of the term crypto-racism. Key words: Racism, White Supremacy, Crypto-Racism (Working Definition), Hate Crimes, Covert Racism, Slave Catchers, Solomon Northup, James Byrd, Jr., “Solomon Northup's Odyssey” (film), “12 Years a Slave” (film), Twelve Years Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City In 1841, and Rescued In 1853, From A Cotton Plantation Near The Red River In Louisiana (1854), Merrill Brown, Abram Hamilton, Joyce King, Hate Crime: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas, Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, John King, Emanuel A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.), Emanuel A.M.E. Church massacre (2015). Clementa C. Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel L. Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Myra Thompson, White Supremacist ideology, Dylann Storm Roof, Great Replacement theory (GRT), Spoiler alert: Solomon Northup’s chronicle, Content warning: graphic descriptions and allusions to racist violence. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 34: A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood | 31 Mar 2022 | 00:20:28 | |
This podcast episode, “A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood,” recounts two events in 1944 Mississippi history: the lynching of the Reverend Isaac Simmons; and Senator Theodore Bilbo’s speech on White Supremacy found in the Congressional Record. Content warning: descriptions of lynching, racial epithets. Key Words: Racism, White Supremacy, Mississippi, Miscegenation, Lynching, Reverend Isaac Simmons, Eldridge Simmons, Theodore G. Bilbo, 78th Congress (1944), Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization, Doctrine of White Supremacy, Chester M. Morgan, Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), Property Theft, Historic Hate Crimes, Critical Race Theory, The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), Post-Script: Personal comment, Mississippi Senate Bill 2113, The Emmett Till Antilynching Act. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 33: Rumors of a Race War | 28 Feb 2022 | 00:26:25 | |
This podcast episode, “Rumors of a Race War,” briefly examines the idea of a race war in the American mind. Two disparate yet related events highlighted in the long history of American race relations is the Helter Skelter race war motive used in the 1970 Charles Manson trial; and the government’s recent prosecution of three men—Cook, Frost, and Sawall—for attempting to foment a race war in the United States. Key words: Racism, Race War, War, Content Warning, Racial Stereotypes, The Birth of a Nation (1915), Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Charles Manson, the Manson family, Tate-LaBianca murders, Helter Skelter, Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, The Power Grid Terrorists, Christopher Brenner Cook, Jonathan Allen Frost, Jackson Matthew Sawall, Suicide Necklaces, The Turner Diaries, William Luther Pierce (Andrew MacDonald), March On Washington (2020), Mayor Muriel Bowser, “FBI-Designated Significant Domestic Terrorism Incidents in the United States from 2015 through 2019,” Racially or Ethnically Motivated Extremism (RMVE), Samuel Yette, The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America, Post Script: Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 32: Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth Racism | 31 Jan 2022 | 00:26:33 | |
This podcast episode, “Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth Racism,” looks at the preliminary racist reaction to a Black woman nominee for the United States Supreme Court—with brief notes on the SCOTUS nomination’s connection to historical events surrounding the cases of Lani Guinier (1993) and Anita Hill (1991). Key words: Racism, Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy, Lift Every Voice Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice, Black Women, SCOTUS, President Bill Clinton, Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS shortlist 2022, Thurgood Marshall, President Joe Biden, Electoral politics, Anoa Changa, ABC News poll, Paul Rosenberg, Fake News, Miriam Ma’at Ka Re Monges, Maat (Kemetic Goddess), Maulana Karenga, Maat the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt, Post-Truth, Personal Reflection. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina Bonus: Slide/Presentation — “Maat and the Feather of Truth,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3qz466dkY4
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| Episode 31: The Racist Great Replacement Theory and Preemptive Retaliation | 31 Dec 2021 | 00:24:15 | |
This podcast episode considers the Far-Right racist philosophy known as the “Great Replacement Theory” with a note on the concept, Preemptive Retaliation. Key words: Racism, Great Replacement Theory (GRT), White Supremacy, Native Americans, African Americans, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Cress Theory of Color Confrontation, The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, J. H. Van Evrie, White Supremacy and Negro Subordination, Dr. DeReef F. Jamison, “Frances Cress Welsing: Decoding and Deconstructing the Cultural Logic of White Supremacy,” Dr. Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, Dr. Robert Pape, Chicago Project on Security and Threats, Milan Obaidi, Jonas R. Kunst, Simon Ozer, Sasha Y. Kimel, “The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy: How The Perceived Ousting Of Whites Can Evoke Violent Extremism And Islamophobia,” Mosque massacres (Christchurch, New Zealand), January 6, 2021 Insurrection, Immigration, Preemptive Retaliation, Unite the Right rally, Disclaimer. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 30: Incidental Notes on Racism and the Rittenhouse Murder Trial | 30 Nov 2021 | 00:28:22 | |
Episode Description—This podcast episode explores the immediate aftermath of the 2021 Rittenhouse Murder Trial. Key words: Racism, Rittenhouse Murder Trial, Jacob Blake Shooting, World To Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism And History, White Militias, White Vigilantes, White Supremacy, George Floyd, Dual Standards of Justice, Black Lives Matter, White Liberal Politics, New Racist Narratives, No-Negotiation With Terrorists’ Policy, Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, Gaige Grosskreutz, Southern Poverty Law Center, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Chrystul Kizer, Celia (“a Slave”), Proud Boys, AR-15-Style Rifle, Race Traitor, White Civil Rights Martyrs, White Allies, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Viola Liuzzo, Heather Heyer, Disclaimer. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 29: A Brief Note on the Paradigm of Racist Predation | 01 Nov 2021 | 00:11:04 | |
This podcast episode briefly covers the Paradigm of Racist Predation. Key words: Racism, Racist Predation, Human Predatory Behavior, Leslie’s Weekly, Lynching, NAACP, The Crisis, Animal Biology, World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism and History, Work-In-Progress, James Byrd, Phillip Mbuji Johansen, “Solitary, Institutional, and Social Predation.” The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Bonus Episode 6: An Historical Account of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Anti-Lynching Texts, Kawaida Womanism, and the Sacred | 15 Oct 2021 | 00:05:00 | |
Episode Description—This bonus podcast episode (live) is for those who follow Dr. Bankole-Medina’s scholarly endeavors! Key words: Dr. Jennifer Williams, Racial Violence (Lynching), Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Kawaida Philosophy, Kawaida Womanism, The Dogon Model of Knowledge Acquisition (DMKA), Maulana Karenga, Tiamoyo Karenga, Chimbuko Tembo, Africana Epistemology, 33rd Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, Dr. Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon, Panel #2: “The Divine Feminine: Above & Below” featuring: Dr. Kevin J. Hales (Moderator), Dr. Ayanna Grady-Hunt, and Dr. Marquita Gammage. DISA - Home (diopianinstitute.org) The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina #TheInventionofRacism "Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina is a tenured Professor of History and an established scholar of Africana Studies at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medicine in Antebellum Louisiana, and World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism and History. Her recent publications include a review of Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State by Edward Onaci which appears in the Journal of Southern History; and the academic paper “A Real-World Discourse on Intellectual Identity, Thought Leadership, and the Black Woman Academic Chair,” edited by Stephanie Y. Evans and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting and appears in Palimpsest Journal. Among her numerous awards, Dr. Bankole-Medina was named Distinguished Faculty Researcher at CSU and is recognized as an exceptional online learning professor. Dr. Bankole-Medina is also a producer and host of The Invention of Racism podcast series."
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| Episode 28: The Authoritarian Racist Personality (ARP) | 01 Oct 2021 | 00:20:44 | |
Episode Description—In this episode we consider The Authoritarian Racist Personality. Key words: Racism, Rhineland Germany, J.A. Rogers, Edward Scobie, Ivan Van Sertima, World War I, Afro-German, Nazi Third Reich, Rhineland Bastards, Theodor W. Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, Nevitt Sanford, The Authoritarian Racist Personality (ARP), Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Susan Samples, “African Germans in the Third Reich,” Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay, The African German Experience, Clarence Lusane, Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era, Benjamin Madley, “From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe,” Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, Dagmar Schultz. Happy 2nd Anniversary TIR! Thank you! The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina #TheInventionofRacism
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| Episode 27: Racist Game Theory | 31 Aug 2021 | 00:22:40 | |
This episode explores Racist Game Theory. Key words: Racism, White Supremacy, White Privilege, Game Theory, Racist Game Theory, Black Men, Voter Suppression, Brennen Center for Justice, Attempted Murder, Critical Race Theory, Racism In Mortgage Lending, Emmanuel Martinez, Lauren Kirchner, Phillip Mbuji Johansen, Cautionary Tale, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 26: Narcissistic Racism—The Trials and Triumphs of Cori Bush | 31 Jul 2021 | 00:34:21 | |
Episode Description—This podcast episode, “Narcissistic Racism—The Trials and Triumphs of Cori Bush,” explores what constitutes the idea of Narcissistic Racism, and how this concept highlights the recent death threats levied against U.S. Congresswoman Cori Bush. Trigger Warning: This podcast discusses violent White supremacist messaging, racist and sexist/misogynist epithets. Key words: Racism, Narcissism, Psychology, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), Jean Twenge, Keith Campbell, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, Radical School of Black Psychologists, Wade Nobles, Kobi Kambon, Frances Cress Welsing, Linda James Meyers, Amos Wilson, Daudi Azido, Na’im Akbar, Cori Bush, Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri, The Squad, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Presley, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, Sexism, Racial Epithets, Narcissistic Racism, Shirley Chisholm, Michelle Obama, Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism, January 6, 2021 Coup Attempt, Tami Sawyer, Relationship Boundaries, Dred Scott decision, Bobby Wright, Psychopathic Racial Personality, John Oshodi, Racial Psychosis. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
A thank you goes to Precious George for background information on the psycho-social construction of relationship boundaries.
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| Episode 25: The First Rule of Racism… | 30 Jun 2021 | 00:25:14 | |
This episode explores the reproduction of racism through silence and the restriction of knowledge and information by looking at the pop culture film Fight Club and the famous tagline: "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club." Key words: Racism, White Supremacy, Fight Club (book and film), Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher, White Males, Black Males, Ed Guerrero, Framing Blackness, Rebel without A Cause (film), James Dean, Law Enforcement, “Race Card,” Catchphrases, Coded Language, The Southern Strategy, H. Lee Atwater, Neoliberalism, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, Ian F. Haney-Lopez, Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment, Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Twenty Years of Critical Race Theory: Looking Back To Move Forward , Kimberlé Crenshaw, Abstract Speech, Angie Maxwell, Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, Haile Gerima, Adwa—An African Victory (film). The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 24: #WhenRacistsMisLabelThings—The Myths Surrounding Critical Race Theory | 31 May 2021 | 00:23:15 | |
This episode explores the racism inherent in the current public discussion over, and attacks against, Critical Race Theory. Key words: Racism, Critical Race Theory, War, Myth, Mislabeling, Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Manifesto, Neo-conservatism, Black Lives Matter, Mary Frances Berry, Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America, Kimberle’ Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, Authoritarianism, Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, QAnon, Anti-intellectualism. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 23: Racist Surrealism, The Chauvin Verdict, and the Plea for Justice | 28 Apr 2021 | 00:31:13 | |
This podcast episode, “Racist Surrealism, The Chauvin Verdict, and the Plea for Justice,” is a recap (with commentary) of the recent court decision which convicted former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derrick Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Key words: Racism, Racial Stereotypes, “Race Riots,” Rodney King, Derrick Chauvin, George Floyd, Harry Reed, Gun Violence Archive (GVA), Mass Casualty Shooting, Ma'Khia Bryant, Racist Surrealism, World To Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism And History, Sarah al-Arshani, Daunte Wright, Andrew Brown, Jr., Isaiah Brown, Black Panther Party, Flashpoint, Christopher Commission, Florida HB 1, A.C.L.U., Maxine Waters, 1965 Watts Rebellion, Merrick Garland, Black Lives Matter movement, January 6, 2021 Coup Attempt. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 22: Racecraft and the Idea of African American Vaccine Hesitancy | 14 Mar 2021 | 00:31:08 | |
In this episode we join the discussion surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine and the public notion of vaccine hesitancy in the Black community. Key words: Race, Racism, Racecraft, Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, A Woman Doctor’s Civil War, Gerald Schwartz, vaccine hesitancy, Pew Research Center, Slavery and Medicine, Henrietta Lacks, Eugene Saenger, Martha Stephens, The Treatment: Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests, “Mississippi Appendectomy,” Dr. Susan Moore, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Karen Fields, Barbara Fields, N’COBRA, Vaccine Gentrification, Vaccine Access, NPR, QAnon. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Bonus Episode 5: Toward of A Methodology for Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in the New Age | 04 Feb 2021 | 00:27:08 | |
In this bonus episode, Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina delivers the keynote lecture at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Virtual Celebration hosted by San Diego State University. This even was recorded Friday, January 22, 2021. Key words: Racism, Martin Luther King, Jr., King’s Legacy, George Orwell, 1984, Newspeak, January 6, 2021, Coronavirus, Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi, Intellectualism, Quotational Practice, Michael K. Honey, To the Promised. Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice, Patrick Parr, The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age, David Levering Lewis, King: A Biography, “I Have a Dream,” “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top,” San Diego State University, Africana Studies, Kaia Brown, Adisa Alkebulan. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 21: White Privilege and the Messy Coup | 11 Jan 2021 | 00:37:56 | |
This episode looks briefly at White privilege and the coup attempt that occurred in the United States on January 6, 2021. Key words: Racism, United States Coup, Domestic Terrorism, White Privilege, Racial Double Standards, Joy Ann Reid, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Muriel Bowser, Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," American Exceptionalism, Miriam Carey, Chanelle Helm, LaTosha Brown, Black Women, World to Come: The Baltimore Uprising, Militant Racism and History, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Khaleda Rahman, Shemar Betts. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 20: Hood Racism--The KKK Cypher | 25 Dec 2020 | 00:15:26 | |
This episode, “Hood Racism—The KKK Cypher,” takes a brief look at the early history of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States with emphasis on the role of secrecy. Key topics: Racism, Ku Klux Klan, KKK, secrecy, Confederacy, Psychological manipulation, vigilantism, Civil War, The 48 Laws of Power, KKK Apologist histories, Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth, and Disbandment, Historic Pulaski: Birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 19: A Good Deed and the White Supremacist Online Surveillance of Black People | 13 Dec 2020 | 00:25:59 | |
This episode, “A Good Deed and the White Supremacist Online Surveillance of Black People,” relates a personal narrative about being threatened online with militant racism in the time of COVID-19. Key words: Race, Racism, White Supremacy, Surveillance, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Lynching, Lee Walker, Neighborhood apps, Pandemic Racism, Black Unity, White and POC allies, Ron Walters, White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community, George Derek Musgrove, The Harassment Of Black Elected Officials: Race, Party Realignment, And State Power In The Post-Civil Rights United States (2005), Nextdoor App, Rahim Kurwa, Katie Lambright, Nisa Ahmad, Shoshana Zuboff. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 18: Racism Has Always Been a Public Health Crisis | 05 Dec 2020 | 00:30:12 | |
This episode explores the basic concept of public health; the recent phenomenon of cities, counties, and national organizations declaring racism a public health crisis; important questions and concerns about the declaration that racism is an urgent threat to public health in the United States. Key words: Race, Racism, White Supremacy, Public Health, Public Health Crisis Declarations, AMA (American Medical Association), Leslie Gregory, Systemic Racism, The Tuskegee Experiment, Flint Water Crisis, Medicine, Heath, Na’im Akbar, Kobi Kambon, Dorothy Roberts, Nancy Krieger, Harriet Washington. American Public Health Association, Willarda Edwards, M.D, Vice President Joe Biden, James Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 17: The Racist Pedagogics of Prejudice and Privilege | 29 Nov 2020 | 00:30:03 | |
This episode explores “The Racist Pedagogics of Prejudice and Privilege” by briefly surveying, through four case summaries, how racist ideas are taught, maintained, and reinforced among White people. Key words: Racism, Race Relations, White Supremacy, University students, Race Prejudice, White Privilege, Higher Education, Kenneth B. Clark, “Doll experiment,” Molefi Kete Asante, Michelle Alexander, Ijeoma Oluo, Robin DiAngelo, Racial Stereotypes, “The Good Black,” Case Summaries, Journal Notes. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 16: Rituals of Racism—False Accusations and the Attack on Black Lives Matter | 19 Nov 2020 | 00:25:09 | |
Episode Description—This episode explores one of the many “Rituals of Racism.” One ritual is the phenomenon of False Accusations made against Black people; and how this practice, in one recent example, is related to the attack on the Black Lives Matter movement. Key words: Racism, False Accusations, Lynching, Wrongful Convictions, Exoneration, Black Lives Matter, Rituals of Racism, Crime, Criminal Justice, Wilder McGowan, Katie Robb, Gladys Townsend, Rodreikus Scott, Ronnie Long. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 15: Racism, Self-Administered Justice, and the Sex Trade In Enslaved African Women | 11 Nov 2020 | 00:23:28 | |
This episode discusses the rape of enslaved Black women as part of the state sanctioned operations inherent in the American institution of slavery, highlighting the Missouri v. Celia, a Slave case in 1855. Key topics: Racism, Slavery, Enslaved Black Women, Missouri v. Celia, Rape, Antebellum Sex-Trade, Sexual Assault, Antebellum Racism, Unrapeability, Resistance, Breeding, Slave Law, Self-Defense, Racial Stereotypes, Black Heroine’s Journey, Self-Administered Justice. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 14: Necroracism and Nazi Thought | 07 Nov 2020 | 00:31:55 | |
This podcast episode inspects the disturbing nature of “Necroracism and Nazi Thought.” We review selected aspects of the Nazi Party’s racial ideology from 1933 through 1945 in order to construct a working definition of the term “necroracism.” Key Words: Racism, Anna Julia Cooper, Nationalism, Necroracism, Genocide, German Nazi State, Inhuman, Racial Hierarchy, Authoritarian Government, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Dictatorship, Jewish Holocaust, Kristallnacht, Racial Purity, Adolf Hitler. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Bonus Episode 4: Recognizing Racism—Naming, Misnaming and the Power of Identity | 03 Nov 2020 | 00:28:37 | |
This episode presents notes on “Recognizing Racism: Naming, Misnaming and the Power of Identity.” Three points that are explored include: 1) the visibility of Black women in old London (1600-1860); 2) Kunta Kinte’s spirit of freedom; and 3) modern politics and the practices of misnaming. These three illustrations show how naming is the building block for constructing social realities; and a very important element of structural racism. The episode also concludes with comments about the cable series “Lovecraft Country.” Key words: Racism, BAME, London, Roots, Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte, Names, Naming, Misnaming, Senator Kamala Harris, Blackamore, Moors, #MyNameIs, Lovecraft Country (Spoiler alert) Episode “I Am,” Black Women, 2020 Election. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 13: Pandemic Racism--Part 2 | 30 Oct 2020 | 00:33:04 | |
This two part episode explores the term “Pandemic Racism.” Part 1 looks at Pandemic racism as systemic prejudice in medicine coupled with the disproportionate infection and mortality impact COVID-19 has on Black people. Part 2 focuses on how racial discrimination operates during a crisis, causing harm to Black people. Key words: Racism, Pandemic Racism, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Wet Markets, Education, Voting, Xenophobia, Physical Attacks, Prisons, White Supremacist Cells, 911 Hate Calls. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 12: Pandemic Racism--Part 1 | 28 Oct 2020 | 00:17:12 | |
This two part episode explores the term “Pandemic Racism.” Part 1 looks at Pandemic racism as systemic prejudice in medicine coupled with the disproportionate infection and mortality impact COVID-19 has on Black people. Part 2 focuses on how racial discrimination operates during a crisis, causing harm to Black people. Key words: Racism, Pandemic Racism, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Wet Markets, Education, Voting, Xenophobia, Physical Attacks, Prisons, White Supremacist Cells, 911 Hate Calls. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 11: Baseline Observations of Racism | 21 Oct 2020 | 00:16:35 | |
This episode discusses some of the baseline observations, or informal premises, in the discussion of racism. This episode presents a list of ideas that undergird the framework for this series. Key topics: Maulana Karenga’s definition of racism, Racial Comfort, Global Phenomenon, Mixed-race People, Obfuscation, Non-negotiation. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 10: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—Erasure | 14 Oct 2020 | 00:12:38 | |
This episode discusses the final concept in the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct”—Erasure. This pillar of the framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each of the seven pillars will be discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics: Racism, Killogy, Genocide Convention of 1948, Holocaust of Enslavement, Jewish Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, COVID-19. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Bonus Episode 3: Right Wing Extremist—another Term for White Supremacist | 09 Oct 2020 | 00:22:40 | |
This bonus episode provides commentary on “Right Wing Extremist—another Term for White Supremacist.” The podcast discusses the militia plot to kidnap the Democratic Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer; and how this is, organizationally and foundationally, related to anti-Black terrorism. Key words: Racism, Right Wing Extremist, White Supremacy, Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, NAACP, COVID-19, Anti-Lockdown Protests, Michigan State Capitol, Voting The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 9: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—Reality | 07 Oct 2020 | 00:09:35 | |
This episode discusses one of the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct”—Reality. This pillar of the framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each of the seven pillars will be discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics: Racism, Racist Denial, Hyperpolicing of Language, COVID-19, Harriet Tubman. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 8: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—Humanity | 30 Sep 2020 | 00:19:53 | |
This episode discusses one of the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct”—Humanity. This pillar of the framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each of the seven pillars will be discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics: Racism, Racial hierarchies, Benjamin Rush, Samuel Morton, Samuel Cartwright, Josiah Nott, Louis Agassiz, Humanity. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Official Launch, Welcome, and Contact for the Podcast Series: The Invention of Racism | 30 Sep 2020 | 00:05:27 | |
This is the official launch and welcome trailer for The Invention of Racism podcast series. Host, Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina (Professor of History and Distinguished Faculty Researcher), introduces herself and provides a brief commentary about the podcast series. Key words: Racism, Anti-Racism. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 7: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—Intellectuality | 29 Sep 2020 | 00:14:37 | |
This episode discusses one of the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct”—Intellectuality. This pillar of the framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each of the seven pillars will be discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics: Racism and Intellectuality, Early Black Teachers, The Manipulation of Intellect, Anna Julia Cooper. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 6: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—Containment | 28 Sep 2020 | 00:11:29 | |
This episode discusses one of the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct”—Containment. This pillar of the framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each of the seven pillars will be discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics include: Racial Containment, Sundown Towns, Prisons. The Invention of Racism podcast begins September 30, 2020. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 5: Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—Management | 27 Sep 2020 | 00:11:15 | |
This episode discusses one of the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct”—Management. This pillar of the framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each of the seven pillars will be discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics: Racial management, Sharecropping. The Invention of Racism podcast begins September 30, 2020. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 4: Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—Dominance | 26 Sep 2020 | 00:12:09 | |
This episode discusses one of the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct”—Dominance. This pillar of the framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each of the seven pillars will be discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics: Frederick Douglass, Racial Dominance. The Invention of Racism podcast begins September 30, 2020. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Bonus Episode 2: The Secret Life of Passing as a Black Woman | 25 Sep 2020 | 00:27:13 | |
This episode looks at the phenomena of White women passing as Black women, a kind of "racial imposter syndrome," primarily through the lens of how social media engages racism, Black women's bodies and lives, and White privilege. Key Topics: Racism, Passing, Jessica Krug, Rachel Dolezal, Satchuel Paigelyn Cole, aka Jennifer Lynn Benton, Blackface, Colorism, Pathology. The Invention of Racism will publish weekly beginning September 30, 2020.
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| Episode 3: Introduction to the Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct | 25 Sep 2020 | 00:03:30 | |
This episode introduces a methodology of racism, the “Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct.” This framework helps us to understand how racism operates in the world. Each pillar is discussed in separate podcast episodes. Key topics: Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct. The Invention of Racism podcast begins September 30, 2020. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Bonus Episode 1: The Breonna Taylor Case and Performing the Racist Script | 24 Sep 2020 | 00:23:00 | |
This bonus episode of The Invention of Racism offers an opinion about the Breonna Taylor case, after the Grand Jury verdict was issued September 24, 2020. The verdict does not hold anyone accountable for her death. Key topics: Racist Script, Black Women, Kentucky, Protest, Policing Shooting, Race in America, Racism. The Invention of Racism will publish weekly beginning September 30, 2020.
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| Episode 2—Working Definitions of Racism | 24 Sep 2020 | 00:18:24 | |
This episode explores working definitions of the term racism. Historic and contemporary examples that illustrate racism: the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 and the phenomena of White people fraudulently calling 911 on Black People. Key topics: Defining Racism, Tulsa Race Massacre, Fraudulent Use of 911, Neely Fuller, Jr., Neoliberal, Aversive Racism, Microaggressions, Opinion. The Invention of Racism podcast begins September 30, 2020. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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| Episode 1—Introduction: The Invention of Racism | 23 Sep 2020 | 00:03:55 | |
This new podcast series, “The Invention of Racism,” explores the subtle, and not so subtle, nuances of racism in the 21st century. Understanding and speaking the truth about racism is the first step toward combatting and ultimately eliminating it. This podcast series will present scholars and scholarship, opinion, news stories, and reflections that speak to historic and contemporary issues of racism. The Invention of Racism podcast series begins September 30, 2020. Contact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com Follow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina
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