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Episode 57
Guest: Deadric Williams, PhD
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW

Dr. Deadric Williams, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, breaks down the relationship between racism, race, and racialization—emphasizing that racism came first, not race. He explains how racism is upheld by both ideology and structures, and how the invention of race served to justify settler colonialism and slavery. The conversation explores how whiteness functions to divide oppressed groups and maintain dominance, including the use of coded language to sustain racial inequities. Dr. Williams offers a vital framework for understanding and dismantling systemic racism at its roots.

In this episode:

• How racism came first — and how race emerged from it, not the other way around
• Racism as a combination of ideology and structures that uphold white dominance
• How the invention of race justified settler colonialism and the enslavement of Africans
• How whiteness was created to divide oppressed groups and provide material and psychological benefits
• Coded language and how racial inequities are sustained in contemporary society

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