In the wake of Juneteenth and the ongoing police brutality protests, "Office Hours" hears from Dr. Damien Sojoyner, a professor of anthropology, and Ms. Stephanie Jones, a PhD student in sociology. Both have focused on issues of anti-blackness and structural inequality in the United States. We discuss systemic racism, conceptions of race, the current protests, and Dr. Sojoyner's book First Strike: Educational Enclosures of Black Los Angeles, which describes how the policing, discipline, and...
In the wake of Juneteenth and the ongoing police brutality protests, "Office Hours" hears from Dr. Damien Sojoyner, a professor of anthropology, and Ms. Stephanie Jones, a PhD student in sociology. Both have focused on issues of anti-blackness and structural inequality in the United States. We discuss systemic racism, conceptions of race, the current protests, and Dr. Sojoyner's book First Strike: Educational Enclosures of Black Los Angeles, which describes how the policing, discipline, and curriculum in American schools leads to the oppression and subjugation of Black students.
Resources Mentioned:
https://thenewpress.com/books/fatal-invention
http://www.socallib.org/
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
Other writings from Dr. Sojoyner:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/first-strike
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/sojoyner/
https://escholarship.org/content/qt35c207gv/qt35c207gv.pdf?t=oxpfpy&v=lg
https://truthout.org/articles/keywords-in-black-protest-a-n-anti-vocabulary/
Our intro song was "If I Had a Dime" by David Ryan Harris.
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