Welcome to RAGE
Podcast of the University of Denver’s Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (In)Equality or IRISE for short. “I am the show’s host’s Tom Romero, and I’m a Professor of Law & History here at DU as well as IRISE’s Director.
RAGE explores the risks and rewards of being a critical race scholar in higher education. The past couple of years have sparked an unprecedented conversation about racial and connected forms of social inequality. In an era of Black Lives, Dreamers, the Flint Water Crisis, Standing Rock and vigorous backlash against these movements, everyone is talking about rage in brand new ways. Critical scholarship and public engagement by race scholars in op-eds, blogs, and essays have often been front and center in these formulations.
Yet, in higher education we have either taken for granted or ignored altogether the emotional, professional, and even physical risks to which race scholars are subjected. Though race scholars have long made enormous contributions to understanding systemic and institutionalized forms of inequality, their work has been marginalized, sometimes silenced, and often ignored. The consequence has been long-simmering collective disillusionment about the campuses and institutions of which we are a part, while the rage of others against race scholars is legitimized and made policy and practice.
For this episode, I’m here to talk about such issues with Dr. Melina Abdullah, Professor and Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Abdullah is a recognized expert on race, gender, class, and social movements and author of numerous articles and book chapters, with subjects ranging from political coalition building to womanist mothering.
S2E2: FBI Leaked Documents Expose Racist Targeting of Blacks
S2E1: The Stapleton Name Change Decision
S1E9: Dr. Frances Aparicio, "Aguanile: Critical Listening, Mourning & Anti-colonial Healing"
S1E8: Christine Vega on Chicana Motherwork
S1E7: Dr. Manya Whitaker of Counternarratives from Women of Color in Academia
S1E6: Dr. Meera Deo, author of Unequal Profession
S1E5: Dr. Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante
S1E4: Prof. Kevin Willmott, Blackkklansman Screenwriter
S1E3: Dr. Amber Johnson of the Justice Fleet
S1E2: Dr. Mary Romero on her journey in higher ed and the role of rage in her research & scholarship.
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