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The Invention of RacismEpisode 38: Algorithmic Blues: CHAT-GPT Artificial Intelligence Explains RacismThis 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 i...2023-03-1022 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 37: Racist Political Rhetoric as Bloodsport and Human EqualityEpisode 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 Re...2022-10-2320 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 36: The Racist Negation of Enslaved and Free Black WomenThis 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 Gradie...2022-07-0127 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 35: The Discreet Knowledge of Crypto-RacismThis 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 S...2022-04-3029 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 34: A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the BloodThis 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...2022-03-3120 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 33: Rumors of a Race WarThis 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-LaBian...2022-02-2826 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 32: Black Women, SCOTUS, and the Politics of Post-Truth RacismThis 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, Electora...2022-01-3126 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 31: The Racist Great Replacement Theory and Preemptive RetaliationThis 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...2021-12-3124 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 30: Incidental Notes on Racism and the Rittenhouse Murder TrialEpisode 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...2021-11-3028 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 29: A Brief Note on the Paradigm of Racist PredationThis 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. © 2021 TIR Podcast Group. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina:http://katherine...2021-11-0111 minThe Invention of RacismBonus Episode 6: An Historical Account of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Anti-Lynching Texts, Kawaida Womanism, and the SacredEpisode 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...2021-10-1505 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 28: The Authoritarian Racist Personality (ARP)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 Afr...2021-10-0120 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 27: Racist Game TheoryThis 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. © 2021 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina:2021-09-0122 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 26: Narcissistic Racism—The Trials and Triumphs of Cori BushEpisode 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, Mich...2021-07-3134 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 25: The First Rule of Racism…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 Wreck...2021-06-3025 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 24: #WhenRacistsMisLabelThings—The Myths Surrounding Critical Race TheoryThis 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...2021-06-0123 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 23: Racist Surrealism, The Chauvin Verdict, and the Plea for JusticeThis 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...2021-04-2831 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 22: Racecraft and the Idea of African American Vaccine HesitancyIn 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 micr...2021-03-1431 minThe Invention of RacismBonus Episode 5: Toward of A Methodology for Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in the New AgeIn 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...2021-02-0427 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 21: White Privilege and the Messy CoupThis 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. © 2021 TIR Podcast G...2021-01-1137 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 20: Hood Racism--The KKK CypherThis 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonma...2020-12-2515 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 19: A Good Deed and the White Supremacist Online Surveillance of Black PeopleThis 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...2020-12-1325 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 18: Racism Has Always Been a Public Health CrisisThis 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: Th...2020-12-0530 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 17: The Racist Pedagogics of Prejudice and PrivilegeThis 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr...2020-11-2930 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 16: Rituals of Racism—False Accusations and the Attack on Black Lives MatterEpisode 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlac...2020-11-1925 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 15: Racism, Self-Administered Justice, and the Sex Trade In Enslaved African WomenThis 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr...2020-11-1123 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 14: Necroracism and Nazi ThoughtThis 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. Breaking News: #PresidentElectBiden, #VicePresidentElectHarris #Election2020The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheI...2020-11-0731 minThe Invention of RacismBonus Episode 4: Recognizing Racism—Naming, Misnaming and the Power of IdentityThis 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 (S...2020-11-0328 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 13: Pandemic Racism--Part 2This 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com2020-10-3033 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 12: Pandemic Racism--Part 1This 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.com2020-10-2817 min
Virginia HumanitiesThe Psychology of Escape (from "States of Mind")Brian talks with historian Katherine Bankole-Medina, about a supposed mental condition that induced slaves to run away.2020-10-2704 min
The Invention of RacismEpisode 11: Baseline Observations of RacismThis 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina:http://katherine-bankolemedina.squa...2020-10-2116 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 10: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—ErasureThis 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. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina2020-10-1412 minThe Invention of RacismBonus Episode 3: Right Wing Extremist—another Term for White SupremacistThis 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, VotingThe Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankole...2020-10-0922 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 9: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—RealityThis 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. The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout Professor Katherine Bankole...2020-10-0709 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 8: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—HumanityThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaA...2020-09-3019 minThe Invention of RacismOfficial Launch, Welcome, and Contact for the Podcast Series: The Invention of RacismThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina:http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/2020-09-3005 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 7: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—IntellectualityThis 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.The Invention of Racism podcast begins September 30, 2020.The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bank...2020-09-2914 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 6: The Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—ContainmentThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout P...2020-09-2811 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 5: Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—ManagementThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout Professor Katherin...2020-09-2711 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 4: Seven Pillars of the Racist Construct—DominanceThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout Professo...2020-09-2612 minThe Invention of RacismBonus Episode 2: The Secret Life of Passing as a Black WomanThis 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.The Invention of Racism publishes full, bonus, and micro-podcast episodes in the series.© 2020 TIR Podcast Group. #CiteBlackWomen About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina:http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/2020-09-2527 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 3: Introduction to the Seven Pillars of the Racist ConstructThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published with periodic bonus and micro-podcast episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedinaAbout Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina:htt...2020-09-2503 minThe Invention of RacismBonus Episode 1: The Breonna Taylor Case and Performing the Racist ScriptThis 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.The Invention of Racism publishes full, bonus, and micro-podcast episodes in the series.© 2020 TIR Podcast Group. #CiteBlackWomen About Professor Katherine Bankole-Medina:http://katherine-bankolemedina.squarespace.com/2020-09-2523 minThe Invention of RacismEpisode 2—Working Definitions of RacismThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published weekly (until December 2020) with periodic Bonus episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact: TheInventionofRacism@protonmail.comFollow Dr. Bankole-Medina on Twitter: @KBankoleMedina2020-09-2418 min
The Invention of RacismEpisode 1—Introduction: The Invention of RacismThis 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.The Invention of Racism is published weekly (until December 2020) with periodic Bonus episodes included in the series. © 2020 TIR Podcast Group. All Rights Reserved. #CiteBlackWomenContact...2020-09-2303 min