Mike talks with Juliet Hooker, the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science at Brown University. Professor Hooker is a political theorist specializing in racial justice and has authored multiple books, the latest of which is Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss, which is the topic of their discussion.
Topics Mike and Juliet Cover Include:
- the meaning of Black grief and white grievance
- justified and unjustified political loss
- why the context of a loss is important
- differing responses to political loss
- the baseline entitlement assumptions of whites in America
- the politics of refusal
- racism and the narrowing of the political imagination
- the ‘dominant official romantic narrative’ of the civil rights movement
- repairing vs salvaging American democracy
- reasons for optimism
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